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Acknowledgements
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Additional acknowledgements
Editorial on behalf of Independence Educational Publishers
by Cara Acred.
With thanks to the Independence team: Mary Chapman,
Sandra Dennis, Christina Hughes, Jackie Staines and Jan
Sunderland.
Cara Acred
Cambridge
May 2016
revenge porn 2
robots and criminal culpability 35
rural areas, broadband availability 24, 25
satellite navigation systems 4
schools
BOYD (bring your own device) 17–18
over-use of technology 22
tiredness at and nocturnal social media use 12
screen time
affects on cognitive development 21–2
before bedtime 22
children’s exposure to 19, 20–1
guidelines on 20, 22
overexposure to 19–20
and potential for addiction 21
Sesame Credit 31
sexting 2, 15
sexual abuse/exploitation 1, 10
Skype 4
sleep
impact of ‘blue light’ on 22
sleep deprivation and use of social media 12, 13
teenage sleep patterns 12
smartphones
see also
apps
adolescents’ use of 5
bill payments 5
and children’s internet access 21
and growth in internet addiction 14
as the invention of the century 4
Mobile Alliance for Maternal Action (MAMA) 33
ownership rates of 4, 5, 7, 26
separation from and cognitive performance 11
use for everyday activities 26–7
use in classrooms 17
Snapchat 3, 9
social networking sites
see also
online communities
addiction to 13
age of consent, UK 9
friends, trustworthiness of 2
missing children searches 32
multi-party privacy conflicts 2, 15
online abuse 8
online privacy management 15
peer pressure from 3
Sesame Credit 31
sleep-disrupting use of 12, 13
South Korea 13, 20
superfast broadband 24, 25
tablet computers
and children’s internet access 21
ownership rates of 6, 17, 19, 26
and redundant everyday activities 26–7
as revolutionary 4
use in classrooms 17
technology
communication potential of 2
and criminal law 35
dangers of 1
digital life in 2025 36–9
growth in 1
and redundant everyday activities 26–7
technology literacy
age-based factors 6
for the over-50s 23
trolls, convictions of 8
Twitter 9, 32
United Kingdom (UK)
age of consent, social media sites 9
superfast broadband rollout 24
vloggers (video bloggers) 2
Wikipedia 4
women
gender parity 33
maternal health and digital technology 33
safe public space mapping (Safecity) 34
work-life balance 7, 26
YouTube 4, 31
