Abstract:
This presentation examines the policy and place implications of cybersafety in the conduction of a youth centered information technology program. In conducting the bITS program, an NSF Sponsored ITEST project, we observed that our participants were automatically subjected to multiple policy domains in the course of one day. Although our students may use information technology (iT) throughout the course of the day in both their formal school setting and within our program, they are subjected to different set of formal rules as place changes. (Our students resonate from the School District of Philadelphia while our program is conducted on the campus of Temple University.)
The purpose of this presentation will be to shed light on the change of place in the use of information technology that subjects a student to different standards of cybersafety. These following questions will be addressed: How do changes in "iT places" inevitably result in changes in "policy places?" What are the policy and practice implications in the administration of iT after-school programming? How does one teach individuals how to understand subjection to different policy realms as place changes? Last, this presentation will offer empirical data drawn from our students to highlight perceptions of cybersafety highlighting the need for increased cybersafety attention across policy realms.
