Taking risks when communicating on the Internet: the role of offline social-psychological factors in young people's vulnerability to online risks

Netiquette within married couples: Agreement about acceptable online behavior and surveillance between partners

“…The lower confidence levels that women report has been shown to be Netiquette within Married Couples 6 largely independent from their actual skill level and to be instead related to perceptions of what men and women are supposed to be good at or what they are supposed to like doing (Busch, 1995;Durndell & Haag, 2002; Most activities that have been associated with internet addiction (i.e., gambling, gaming and pornography), are undertaken more frequently by men than women. Livingstone and Helsper (2007) surveyed 1,511 children and their parents and found that young men tended to take more contact and content risks online and used the internet more often for purposes, such as pornography, gaming and gambling. Other studies regarding online transactions show that men are less concerned about online risks.…”

My social networking profile: copy, resemblance, or simulacrum? A poststructuralist interpretation of social information systems

“…Less positively, however, it does so often by pooling together in a single virtual space the most superficial of details from each of those masks, and thereby contributing to the magpie-like "friend collecting" behaviour so often written about by other commentators (boyd & Heer, 2006, boyd 2006, Livingstone & Helsper 2007, Mesch & Talmud 2007. Only through the email and instant messaging system incorporated into most SNSs, perhaps, does some semblance of traditional correspondence live on whilst the vast majority of traffic seems to be about Vampires biting each other, virtual and therefore conspicuously dry water fights, people 'poking' one another, and the sending of pixellated clipart masquerading as gifts.…”

Mobile Technologies and the Incidence of Cyberbullying in Seven European Countries: Findings from Net Children Go Mobile

“…This approach, characterized by the underlying rule "the more opportunities, the more risks" [8,16] implies that the more children use the Internet, the more they learn to reap its benefits and deal in healthy and non-harmful ways with potential risk. However, risk does not always result in harm; and risk taking can be beneficial in terms of building resilience [6].…”