Comments on: Young people are now even becoming scared of each other. What can digital do about it?

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:47:41 +0000

Hmm I am a young person – not a yob though. I am now fearful of other teens my age and older. Groups even younger. I think tackling the problem head on with larger penalties for crimes such as GBH and assaults. There are no local police patrols in our area. They may have potential etc. I think if we can place more police on the streets even in ‘quieter’ areas it will help people feel much more confident.

However your talking ‘digital’. I think that it needs to be drummed into kids nowadays that it’s unacceptable and stop it from happening right from the start. It’s no use trying to rehabilitate teens now with ‘problems’ with other teens. Teens and/or yobs will act a little more respectfully towards adults and I agree that the press is hard on them but they think they rule the other ‘teens’ on the streets. What part of the small community you live in can be a knife in the back or not for a teen nowadays.

I think thatnks to people that have been raising awareness of this: adults (30-45ish) now realise this and have gained more respect. I think now its the other teenagers that do no wrong that need the help along with the over 50s.

Good Luck though

By: Antonio

Antonio — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 22:14:51 +0000

Hi Steven,

Absolutely brilliant – what a great idea!

Would love to find out more about this – will check the websites out in more detail.

Great stuff!

By: stevieflow

stevieflow — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:28:42 +0000

Hi Antonio

Good points

For the past 18 months or so we have been monitoring the RSS feeds from local newspapers for stories that are positive about young people. This is via a combination of RSS / Yahoo Pipes / Google Reader – http://www.plings.co.uk/news.php

It is quite intensive/manual to do so. We are looking at more automated ways to filter.. or even tools to crowdsource the tagging – such as http://www.contenttagger.org/

Thanks

Steven

By: Antonio Gould

Antonio Gould — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:03:31 +0000

Thanks for the heads up Anthony – I’ll definitely check that out.

By: Anthony Tull

Anthony Tull — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:34:51 +0000

There is a person centered thinking tool, which I thinks put respect for a person at the center, it is called ‘Like & Admire’. People often get told what they do wrong, which provided it is done in a pleasant manor is good enough but I think it should be turned on its head and we should tell people, in particalar children, teenagers and young people – that is to tell the young what we think is good about them. The Autistic Resource Base @ Lord Williams Lower School uses this tool but calls it ‘Star of the Week’ and has used it on staff as well. I saw this when I visited and liked seeing it action. I think all schools should do this with thier class groups.
Many Thanks
Anthony Tull

By: DK

DK — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 09:36:59 +0000

It’s a dire shame that some lazy reporting is having such an impact…

I’m obviously from the camp that the tide can be turned through the use of pro-social-media projects

Many thanks for the link-love my friend!

By: Antonio

Antonio — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:21:06 +0000

It’s funny – “youths” still has a negative connotation doesn’t it? Although it’s not used much as a term anymore.

I always use the term “young people” when referring to anyone under 18 as for me it’s the most respectful – it also contains within it the expression that they are actually people and will be the ones who’ll be teachers, doctors and politicians in 10 years. We quite often forget that..

By: Pete Ashton

Pete Ashton — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:58:18 +0000

It’s not just the words used but the context. I remember when I was about 10 the early 80s riots were happening (Brixton, Toxteth, etc) and my mum had to explain to me that “youths” just meant young people and not thuggish rioters as I had assumed from the way the news reporters used the word.

By: Liam

Liam — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:31:36 +0000

Hi Tone! Good point.