TY - BOOK ID - 32780620 TI - Protecting children online? : cyberbullying policies of social media companies AU - Milosevic, Tijana AU - Livingstone, Sonia M. PY - 2017 SN - 0262344092 0262344084 0262037092 9780262344098 9780262037099 9780262344081 9780262344104 0262344106 PB - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, DB - UniCat KW - Online social networks KW - Internet industry KW - Cyberbullying KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Prevention. KW - Cyber bullying KW - Online bullying KW - Virtual bullying KW - Electronic social networks KW - Social networking Web sites KW - Bullying KW - Computer industry KW - Social media KW - Social networks KW - Sociotechnical systems KW - Web sites KW - Virtual communities KW - Internet and children KW - Safety measures. KW - Safety regulations. KW - Children and the Internet KW - Internet (Computer network) and children KW - Children KW - INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy KW - INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies KW - Media studies KW - Social psychology KW - Social problems KW - Age group sociology KW - Mass communications KW - Communities, Online (Online social networks) KW - Communities, Virtual (Online social networks) KW - Online communities (Online social networks) KW - online harassment KW - online platforms KW - youth KW - non-governmental organizations KW - e-safety KW - self-regulation KW - children's rights KW - Facebook KW - Twitter KW - Instagram KW - Snapchat KW - suicide KW - child KW - kids KW - regulate KW - law KW - Internet KW - bullying KW - policymaking KW - free speech KW - corporate KW - corporations KW - bullies KW - technology UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32780620 AB - This book investigates regulatory and social pressures that social media companies face in the aftermath of high profile cyberbullying incidents. The author's research evaluates the policies companies develop to protect themselves and users. This includes interviews with NGO and social media company reps in the US and the EU. She triangulates these findings against news, policy reports, evaluations and interviews with e-safety experts. This book raises questions about the legitimacy of expecting companies to balance the tension between free speech and child protection without publicly revealing their decision-making processes. In an environment where e-safety is part of the corporate business model, this book unveils the process through which established social media companies receive less government scrutiny than start-ups. The importance of this research for law and policy argues for an OA edition to ensure the work is widely and globally accessible to scholars and decision makers. ER -