Social networking is arguably the fastest growing online activity among youth people. This article presents new pan-European findings from the EU Kids Online project on how children and young people navigate the peer-to-peer networking possibilities afforded by social networking sites, based on...

This report is Deliverable D1.5C (Third Annual Progress Report, to cover the period from 01/11/13 to 31/12/14). - This report is based on the work of the whole EU Kids Online network of 33 countries as well as the International Advisory Panel (see Annex 1 for a list of all members). - This third...

Children’s Use of Online Technologies in Europe. A review of the European evidence base. This report is based on recent research on children’s use of internet and mobile technologies identified by the EU Kids Online network.

Despite growing research interest in sexting, not much is known about individual and country differences in engaging in sexting. Therefore, the aims of this study were to investigate (a) which individual and country characteristics explain sexting and (b) whether individual predictors vary...

A report of the panel held at the London School of Economics and Political Science, on 24th November 2009.

The article focuses on an issue regarding the move to increase opportunities and to lessen the risks for the European children in using the Internet. It mentions the implementation of EU Kids Online funded by the European Commission's Safer Internet plus Programme. It presents an analysis of the...

This article reports new findings on the incidence of risk and the associated experience of harm reported by children and adolescents aged 11–16, regarding receipt of sexual messages on the internet (known popularly as sexting). Findings showed that the main predictors of the risk of seeing or...

European self-regulation to ensure children's safety on social networking sites requires that providers ensure children are old enough to use the sites, aware of safety messages, empowered by privacy settings, discouraged from disclosing personal information, and supported by easy to use...