Romanian news media representations of online social networking

VINCZE Hanna OrsolyaBabeş-Bolyai University, ClujDepartment of Communications

Pool: articles on online social networking, March-May2010

Breech of privacy

Tracking personal data

Other stories

Total nr. of

articles

9 7 204 220Foreign news

Foreign news

Romanian news

9 4 3

Privacy-related articles, Hotnews and Adevărul, March-May 2010.

Opportunities Risks

Content Contact Conduct

activism 27 distorsion 3breech of privacy 9 blackmail 2

business 17embarassment 6 sexual abuse 9 identity theft 3

entertainment 28 pornography 2

tracking personal data 7 idling 13

information 21

violent/hateful content 5 verbal abuse 4 prostitution 2

penetration 3 self-harm 4

public interest 14

verbal agression 3

socialization 24

technological convergence 14

Subtotals 16 29 27

Total 148 72Opportunities and risks associated with online social networking(number of articles, Hotnews and Adevărul, March-May 2010.)

Opportunities and risks associated with online social networking(weighted tags, Hotnews and Adevărul, March-May 2010.)

Risks associated with online social networking:(weighted tags, Hotnews and Adevărul, March-May 2010.)

content riskscontact risksconduct risks

Risks associated with online social networking (in local news (weighted tags, Hotnews and Adevărul, March-May 2010.)

content riskscontact risksconduct risks

The Generation that Does Not Want to Work

Too Much

“With an eye to TV shows and another on social networking, the young aged between 16 and 25 are waiting for

their family and friends to find them a job. The portrait of the young

unemployed: aged 25 years at most, highschool or university graduate,

moving slowly when it comes to putting in some work.”

WARNING! Hundreds of Young Children from Târgovişte May Become Ill-Adapted

“Psychologists say that social networking sites are transforming the users into anti-social persons. Since they get the impression that the virtual world is perfect, children and the young cannot adapt to reality any more, and end up communicating with others exclusively online.”

Area of life Voices

legal / criminal 16 experts 8

education 8 legal / police 8

family 6 children 6entertainment / leisure 5 industry 6

social life 5 journalists 6

work 1 NGO 5

politics 1 parents 4

social problems 1 none 3politicians / government 3academics / researchers 2

teachers 2

Children using online social networking, both foreign and local news: area of life and voices (multi-coded)

1Mulţumesc pentru atenţie!

Flash Eurobarometer 248: Towards a safer use of the Internet for children in the EU – a parents' perspective, 2008, Analytical report, p. 60. (http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/sip/docs/eurobarometer/analyticalreport_2008.pdf )

“Different national media have very varied levels of coverage of the three types of risk: content, contact and conduct.

“Hence, media coverage in different countries is sensitising people to different kinds of risk, which may have a bearing on the degree to which people in different countries think the various risks are prevalent.”

(Leslie Haddon, Findings of the EU Kids Online project, E-Safety Live ’09 Conference, Bristol, 26th November. http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/

EUKidsOnline/Presentations/eSafetyConference09.ppt)