PROTECTION OF CHILDREN FROM ABUSE OF INFORMATIONAL AND COMMUNICATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES Cover Image

ZAŠTITA DJECE OD ZLOUPOTREBE INFORMACIONOKOMUNIKACIJSKIH TEHNOLOGIJA
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN FROM ABUSE OF INFORMATIONAL AND COMMUNICATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES

Author(s): Nusreta Kepeš
Subject(s): Media studies, Victimology, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: ISLAMSKI PEDAGOŠKI FAKULTET U BIHAĆU
Keywords: informational and communicational technologies ( ICT); Abuse of informational and communicational technologies (ICT); social networks;

Summary/Abstract: In the last decade of the 21st century, informational and communicational technologies (ICT) have taken very important place in different areas of the human existence. Thanks to the possibilities that they provide, they make possible fast exchange of the information and, in this way, they connect people who live physically distant from each other. ICT are equally available to adults, as well as to children and youth. Positive sides of these technologies are to develop capabilities of communication, enables finding information, to develop critical thinking and to stimulate lifelong learning. New multimedia technology makes acquired information a part of dynamic system of learning and makes it capable to satisfy the needs of individual. In the process of using these ICT, along all the good and useful sides, there are many dangers that can have, as consequences, abuse of children. The research that has been presented in this work has for its goal to determine the factorial state of application of ICT with elementary and secondary school students. The specific goal of this research is directed to finding the nature of connection between the risk factors and students’ behavior, in order to undertake the adequate measures for finding the strategies that will give permanent and efficient results in prevention and correction of inadaptable behavior. With the aim of improving the system of children protection against child pornography and other ways of sexual abuse and exploitation, through ICT, this research can contribute prevention and strengthening the campaign on the Council of Europe Convention ratification.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 121-151
  • Page Count: 31
  • Language: Bosnian