Do High School Students Benefit from the Children's Internet Protection Act?

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Author(s): Zheng Yan (University at Albany (SUNY), USA)
Copyright: 2010
Pages: 17
Source title: Adolescent Online Social Communication and Behavior: Relationship Formation on the Internet
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Robert Z. Zheng (University of Utah, USA), Jason Burrow-Sanchez (University of Utah, USA)and Clifford J. Drew (University of Utah, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-926-7.ch007

Keywords: Cyber Behavior / Information Science Reference / Social Computing / Social Sciences & Humanities

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The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA; 2000) requires an Internet filtering and public awareness strategy to protect children under 17 from harmful visual Internet depictions and has been implemented nationwide since 2001. However, little literature is available documenting its impacts on children’s Internet safety. This chapter first reviews CIPA as well as other existing regulations in protecting children on the Internet. It then presents empirical evidence that CIPA is associated with a decrease in high school students’ Internet use at school but does not appear to have a beneficial effect on their knowledge of Internet safety or opportunities for Internet safety education.

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