Fiona Romeo has posted her notes from her excellent ETCON presentation, "Social Software for Children."
My talk focused on the findings of the BBC identity group's qualitative research and usability testing with children and teens. I shared insights into Jessica and Jake's approaches to identity management, friendship and group membership, with the view to inform actual product development work in this area.
While the purpose of my talk was to stimulate interest in the question: How can we ensure children's safety while letting them have expressive identities in social software?, I also gave some of my own opinions about the appropriateness – or not – of existing social software, and speculated about some positive future directions that wikis and weblogs could take (e.g. using RSS syndication to involve parents in the moderation of social spaces for children).
