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What do news stories of criminal prosecution of individuals involved in on-line paedophile rings, obligations on social networking services providers to address parental anxieties surrounding sexual predatory behaviour on network publics and the Summit on Bullying hosted by the White House have in common? A number of possible answers can be given to this question. One answer may be that it reflects our consciousness about the disorientating features of technology (Ohler, 2010: 77–90). The misuse of technologies taps into our
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Savirimuthu, J. (2012). Regulating Risks and Web 2.0 Technologies: Convergence, Technology and Social Policy. In: Online Child Safety. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230361003_2
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