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Online Child Safety

Law, Technology and Governance

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  • © 2012

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Authors:
  1. Joseph Savirimuthu

    1. Liverpool Law School, Liverpool University, UK

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxiii
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  2. Online Child Safety

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Introduction

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      Pages 3-17

    3. Regulating Risks and Web 2.0 Technologies: Convergence, Technology and Social Policy

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      Pages 18-60

    4. Online Sexual Grooming of Children, Obscene Content and Peer Victimisation: Legal and Evidentiary Issues

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      Pages 61-158

    5. Transborder Challenges to Enforcing Online Child Safety Laws

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      Pages 159-191

    6. Online Child Safety: International Cooperation and Policymaking

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      Pages 192-219

    7. Online Child Safety, Civil Society and the Private Sector: Alternative Strategies

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      Pages 220-262

    8. The Child, Media Literacy and Online Safety Policy Implications

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      Pages 263-290

    9. Concluding Thoughts: The Tethered Child

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      Pages 291-304

  3. Back Matter

    Pages 305-348
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About this book

This work explores the growing convergence between youth culture and digital communication technologies and the corresponding challenges posed to policymakers, examining the current governance debate on online child safety.

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'Online Child Safety: Law, Technology and Governance provides a timely, broad-ranging and well written examination of the key stakeholders, challenges , tensions and legal frameworks which characterise the governance issues associated with online child safety.' - Jo Bryce, COUNTER Project Coordinator & Director of Research Cyberspace Research Unit in the School of Psychology, University of Central Lanashire, UK

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  • Liverpool Law School, Liverpool University, UK

    Joseph Savirimuthu

About the author

JOSEPH SAVIRIMUTHU is Lecturer in Law at the Liverpool Law School, University of Liverpool, UK. He is co-editor ofa special issue on 'Identity, Privacy and New Technologies' for the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management.

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