User:Comm 12 Group Project
Appropriate and Inappropriate Content
[edit]Christina Wood, Austin Randall, Kelly Jarvis, and Justin Gisch
Appropriate Content
[edit]When creating a safe, appropriate website, many factor need to be kept in mind. It is important to provide age appropriate advertising, language, text, and photos. Companies that provided safe, appropriate content resources are NetTrekker, BrainPOP, Discovery Education, and NETGEAR. Examples of appropriate internet content are found on top level domain name systems. These include ".mil" websites, ".gov" websites, ".edu" websites, and ".org" websites.
Inappropriate Content
[edit]With the continual growth of the Internet it has become harder and harder to protect children from inappropriate Web content. Inappropriate Content is seen on Websites with pornography, violent online games, online gambling, sexual solicitation, and hate sites. Society has taken a stance to fight against inappropriate content through the creation of the Children's Internet Protection Act, the FBI's "Parents Guide to Internet Safety", and the establishment of NETSmartz.
Content Control Software
[edit]NetTrekker
[edit]NetTrekker is a leading educational search tool for schools. NetTrekker selects the best educational resources from the Web and makes searching safe and effective with unique learning tools to reach every student.
NETGEAR
[edit]Netgear Live Parental Controls is a router-based Web filtering solution. This filtering solution protects children from Internet predators and unsafe and inappropriate content.
Government Involvement
[edit]Children's Internet Protection Act
[edit]The Children’s Internet Protection Act, or CIPA, was enacted by Congress in 2000. Its purpose is to address concerns about Children’s access to inappropriate Internet Content. CIPA sets certain requirements on schools or libraries that receive connections through the E-rate Program. The E-rate program makes certain communication services and products more affordable. CIPA requires schools and libraries to block or filer Internet access to explicit pictures, child pornography and anything harmful to minors. They are also required to adapt Internet safety policies addressing access by minors to inappropriate matter, safety and security of minors when using electronic mail and chat rooms, and unauthorized excess or “hacking”.
Preventative Organizations
[edit]NetSmartz
[edit]NetSmartz is a workshop provided by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children. This Website educates parents on basic internet safety, blogging, cyber bullying, email, IM & chat rooms, and gaming. NetSmartz provides many tips to help protect against inappropriate content including: knowing where children may have access to the Internet, encouraging your children to come to you or another adult if he or she encounters inappropriate material, and installing blocking, filtering, and monitoring software.
Preventing Inappropriate Content on Social Media Sites
[edit]Facebook has taken precautionary action in protecting against inappropriate content on their website. Facebook prevents inappropriate content by allowing users to flag unsuitable images or comments. They even have various teams to handle different areas of content. A few include, the abusive content team, safety team, and hate and harassment team. They also have "Facebook's error message" which immediately pops up if an inappropriate comment or post is posted. Facebook has been criticized for unclarity on what is considered spam. They are working on perfecting the content of the error message.
YouTube
[edit]Youtube has made strides to protect inappropriate content from users through the system, “Safety Mode,” an opt-in system that can be changed in the privacy settings. Users can choose to change their settings to block offensive content. This allows families to block their children’s access as well. YouTube also uses "Community Flagging," which allows users to flag content they see inappropriate. One a video or comments is flagged, a YouTube employee si immediately notified. Prohibited Material on Youtube includes sexually explicit content, videos of animal abuse, shock videos, content uploaded without copyright holders consent, hate speech, and spam. Due to similar controversial content, many countries have blocked YouTube access. Examples include China, North Korea, Morocco, Thailand, Turkey, and several Muslim countries.
Wikipedia
[edit]Wikipedia has robust version and reversion controls. This means that poor quality edits or vandalism can quickly and easily be reversed or brought up to an appropriate standard by any other editor, so inexperienced editors cannot accidentally do permanent harm if they make a mistake in their editing. Vandals may also be reported to the Administrator Notice Board. Individuals often choose to be a part of specialized tasks such as reviewing articles and at others' request, watching current edits for vandalism, watching newly created articles for quality control purposes, or similar roles. Software-assisted systems and automated programs also help editors and administrators watch for inappropriate edits or editors.
Reading List
[edit]1. "Children's Internet Protection Act." Federal Communications Commission. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 May 2013. <http://www.fcc.gov/guides/childrens-internet-protection-act>. While search on Google Scholar I came across this website, “Federal Communications Commission”, which touched on the on the Children’s Internet Protection Act. I trust this website because it is a Government run website. I know that because the URL ends in “.gov”. This website has great background on the CIPA. Its clearly described its requirements and made it obvious how it helps protect young Internet users today.
2. "Inappropriate Content for Children." NetSmartz Workshop. National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, n.d. Web. 31 May 2013. <http://www.netsmartz.org/InappropriateContent>. While searching Google Scholar I located the Website “The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children”. This website lead me to NetSmartz Workshop. NetSmartz is a state-of-the-art Internet Safety Initiative to better protect children who regularly use the Internet. I trust this Website because there are multiple sources for it on Google Scholar. It provides parents with abundant amounts of information.
3. Jennings, Eric. "Using Wikipedia to Teach Information Literacy". College & Undergraduate Libraries. 2008, Vol. 15 Issue 4, 432-437. 6p. I chose this journal article because I found it in one of our SCU databases. I chose it because it is a scholarly journal article that gives me more information on the vandalism at work and how Wikipedia helps eliminate those problems.
4. Jin, Kim. "The Institutionalization of YouTube: From User-generated Content to Professionally Generated Content." Communication and Mass Media Complete. EBSCO, Jan. 2012. Web. 30 May 2013. I chose this article because it discusses all the guidelines YouTube has to help prevent offensive content. It explains “Safety Mode” which is an opt in service for users. Users can log on their account and change the privacy settings so no inappropriate content can be seen on their account. YouTube relies on its users to “flag” content that they feel is inappropriate. If something is flagged, a YouTube employee reviews that video and decides whether or not it violates YouTube guidelines.
5. Johnson, Larry. Lamb, Annette. "Wicked or Wonderful: Revisiting Wikipedia". Teacher Librarian. Apr2013, Vol. 40 Issue 4, p68-73. 6p. I chose this journal article because I found it in one of our SCU databases. I chose it because it is a scholarly journal article that provides the relevant information to my topic.
6. "Live Parental Controls." NETGEAR. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 May 2013. <http://countries.netgear.com/lpc>. NETGEAR is a company that my parents told me about. Although my siblings are older now and my parents do not have to block what we are looking at, they have heard from friends that this is a successful Content-control system. Netgear blocks certain websites from young Internet users, denying them the ability to encounter inappropriate content.
7. Mosemghvdlishvili, Lela, and Jeroen Jansz. "Framing and Praising Allah on YouTube: Exploring User-created Videos about Islam and the Motivations for Producing Them." Academic Search Complete. EBSCO, June 2012. Web. 30 May 2013. This article discusses the difference between appropriate material on YouTube vs inappropriate. It also shares what some controversial content has been such as that pertaining to Holocaust denial or the Hillsborough disaster. Material that is considered inappropriate and is not aloud on YouTube includes sexually explicit content, videos of animal abuse, shock videos, content uploaded without the copyright holder’s consent, hate speech, spam, and predatory behavior. Finally, this article talks about countries that have blocked YouTube access and reasons why some countries have done so.
8. "NetTrekker Search Overview." NetTrekker. N.p., n.d. Web. <http://www.nettrekker.com/us/nettrekker/overview>. I learned about NetTrekker through another Website, which I used for this project. After researching this company, I believe it is legitimate. NetTrekker has been used by many teachers and approved by millions of student since 2000. This is a valid tool that can help to protect young Internet users.
9. Partridge, Mark V.B., and Jordan A. Arnot. "Expansion of the Domain Name System."Journal of Art, Technology and Intellectual Property Law (2012): n. pag.EBSCOhost. Web. 31 May 2013. When talking about appropriate content, it is important to touch on the Domain Name System. The Domain Name System classifies every website depending on what kind of site it is and who sponsors it. I found this journal using the Santa Clara Library Database. This is a very credible article, which taught me a lot about the Domain Name System.
10. Pugsley, Justin. "Mashable." Mashable. N.p., 07 May 2012. Web. 02 June 2013. This article talks about how web content has been said to raise online sales not only in the US but also in the UK. This website focused on marketing and advertisements that are on the sides of websites and pop up on them. The content that are in those ads need to be accurate and appropriate or else they will lower the credibility of your website. This is important to our topic because the content and appropriateness of certain ads can help or hurt the actual website they are on.
11. Rashid, Fahmida Y. "Is Facebook Censoring Your Comments?" PCMAG. N.p., n.d. Web. 02 June 2013. This article talks about how Facebook blocks and monitors some of the content on their website. However in this article, someone had a bad experience with Facebook alerting him that they had inappropriate content that they were posting and that it was “irrelevant”. Rashid explores whether or not Facebook has gone beyond its boundaries saying that a comment is irrelevant. This is relevant to our topic because Facebook is one of the most visited websites in the world so it is important for them to regulate their content.
12. Wells, Christopher. "Going Online for Instructional Resources? Avoid Inappropriate Content." The School Superintendents Association. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 May 2013. http://aasa.org/content.aspx?id=14368. This article by Christopher Wells clearly outlines what is appropriate and what is inappropriate Web Content. The website that this article is on appear in both my research on the Santa Clara University Library Database and Google Scholar.