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Appendix: Workshop Materials
WORKSHOP AGENDA
December 13, 2000
8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.
Welcome, Introductions, and Purpose of the Workshop
Richard Thornburgh, Committee and Workshop Chair
8:45 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.
Nontechnical Strategies That Can Be Used To Protect Children on the Internet: What are the Roles of Policies, Parents, Schools, Libraries, and Communities
Linda Roberts, Director, Office of Educational Technology and Senior Adviser to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Education
Anne Thompson, Program Commissioner, National PTA
Q&A and General Discussion
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How does one define nontechnical strategies for protecting kids from inappropriate material on the Internet?
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What nontechnical approaches are used in the home, classroom, and community settings?
What is the role of parents in making nontechnical strategies effective, and what do parents need?
How effective have current policies been in encouraging schools and communities to develop nontechnical strategies?
9:30 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Short Break
9:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
An Extended Panel on Bringing Developmental Considerations to Bear on the Impact of Inappropriate Material on the Internet
Moderator/Discussant: Sandra Calvert, Committee Member and Professor of Psychology, Georgetown University
Format Note: Questions and open discussion will be held until after the second part of the panel.
Part I: Effects of Exposure to Pornographic and Other Inappropriate Material on the Internet
Jane Brown, Professor, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Joanne Cantor, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ed Donnerstein, Dean and Professor, Department of Communication, University of California-Santa Barbara
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What types of inappropriate material do young people encounter, and how do they come in contact with it?
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What is the potential impact on children of viewing sexually explicit and other forms of inappropriate material in the media?
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Is impact dependent only on the type of material or also on the source (e.g., static image on the Internet, picture from a magazine, active images from television)?
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What are the limits of this research, and to what extent can we make comparisons among the effects of viewing different types of inappropriate material (e.g., sexually explicit vs. violent vs. hate speech)?
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Part II: Developmental Considerations for Determining Appropriate Internet Use Guidelines for Children and Adolescents
Patricia Greenfield, Professor, Department of Psychology, University of California at Los Angeles
James Youniss, Professor, Life Cycle Institute, Catholic University of America
Dorothy Singer, Senior Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Yale University, and Co-director, Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center
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How are emotional, cognitive, social, and moral development affected by the media landscape created by children's access and use of the Internet?
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What types of material may be harmful according to children's growth and developmental needs, and how may harmful effects change with age and developmental milestone?
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How do parents and educators balance giving young people the responsibility of exploring the Internet with protecting them from material that may be disturbing?
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How should developmental issues shape nontechnical strategies to protect kids from inappropriate material, and what nontechnical strategies will most benefit children's development?
12:00 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.
Quick Lunch
12:45 p.m. – 1:45 p.m.
Push and Pull on the Internet: Children's Use and Experiences
Don Roberts, Thomas More Storke Professor, Department of Communications, Stanford University
Sarah Keller, Assistant Professor, Health Communication, Department of Communication, Emerson College
Moderator/Discussant: Janet Schofleld, Committee Member, Professor of Psychology and Senior Scientist at the Learning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh
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Q&A and General Discussion
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How are children using the Internet, in what settings are children logging on, and are there differential patterns of use according to age, gender, and ethnicity?
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What are children's experiences while online, both positive and negative?
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How are children pulled into material that they might not otherwise view, and what effect might this have?
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How are young people driving their experiences on the Internet, and how can young people be encouraged to stay in charge of their online experiences?
1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Short Break
2:00 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.
Innovative Approaches and Existing Efforts to Use NonTechnological Strategies to Protect Children on the Internet
Laurie Lipper, Director, The Children's Partnership
Kathy Boguszewski, Instructional Technology Consultant, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Mary Dempsey, Commissioner, Chicago Public Library
Nancy Willard, Director, Responsible Netizen Research, Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon
Eileen Faucette, Founder and Coordinator, PTA Live Online
Moderator/Discussant: Winnie Wechsler, Committee Member
Q&A and General Discussion
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What are some of the nontechnological strategies that might be used by educators, librarians, parents, and local communities to ensure children's safe and appropriate use of the Internet?
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What types of inappropriate material do these strategies address, and how do they protect against the potential harm this material might cause?
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Who has been responsible for implementing and monitoring these approaches?
How can these approaches be tailored to different venues (e.g., home, school, library)?
3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.
Bridging Research, Policy, and Practice
Ellen Wartella, Dean and Professor, College of Communication, University of Texas-Austin
Betty Chemers, Deputy Administrator, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Q&A and General Discussion
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What research is needed to develop new nontechnical strategies for protecting children from inappropriate material on the Internet?
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Are regulations needed to protect children on the Internet, and what policies might encourage children to use the Internet in safe and appropriate ways?
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How are and how should nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, government agencies, and parents work together to create a safe environment for kids to use the Internet?
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How should we be thinking about linking research, policy, and practice?
4:45 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Richard Thornburgh, Committee and Workshop Chair
5:00 p.m.
Adjourn
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PRESENTERS
Kathy Boguszewski, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, Madison
Jane Brown, School of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Joanne Cantor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Betty Chemers, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC
Mary Dempsey, Chicago Public Library
Ed Donnerstein, Department of Communication, University of California-Santa Barbara
Eileen Faucette, PTA Live Online, Augusta, GA
Patricia Greenfield, Department of Psychology, University of CaliforniaLos Angeles
Sarah Keller, Department of Communication, Emerson College
Laurie Lipper, The Children's Partnership, Washington, DC
Donald Roberts, Department of Communication, Stanford University
Linda Roberts, Office of Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education, Washington, DC
Dorothy Singer, Yale University Family Television Research and Consultation Center, Yale University
Anne Thompson, National PTA, Miami, FL
Ellen Wartella, College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin
Nancy Willard, Center for Advanced Technology in Education, University of Oregon
James Youniss, Life Cycle Institute, Catholic University
