Media and Games

Tools for youth, teachers, parents …

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has a number of online tools:

Find out how well do you know your privacy rights? Take the MyPrivacy Quiz.

What can YOU do to protect your online rep? Watch this 5-minute video, starring social-media savvy Marcus.

For a graphic novel about youth privacy, check out Social Smarts: Privacy, the Internet, and You.

Test your knowledge about Identity Theft.

In Your I is a Secondary School Unit on Privacy, Anonymity and Identity in a Networked World, presented by On the Identity Trail.

MediaSmarts has Lesson Plans for children and youth of all ages, dealing with a range of topics from Media and Gender and Media and Body Image, to Online Privacy.
Check out their Educational Games, including:

Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs for children ages 8 – 10.

Top Secret! for grades 6 – 8.

MyWorld: A digitial literacy tutorial for secondary students.

… and many more …

News and Events

June 3, 2015

We are excited to announce the launch of, eGirls, eCitizens, a collective volume edited by Professors Bailey and Steeves (and featuring chapters by eGirls researchers Jacquie Burkell, Priscilla Regan, Madelaine Saginur, Trevor Scott Milford and Sarah Heath. eGirls, eCitizens will be published by uOttawa Press and is available for purchase or free electronic download here. The volume will be launched on June 3, 2015 from 4-5pm, at the Expo Event Space (Montpetit gym), during Congress of Social Sciences & Humanities 2015, hosted by the University of Ottawa.

June 5, 2015

eGirls researchers will be presenting in two panels at the Congress of Social Sciences & Humanities 2015, both held on 05 June at the University of Ottawa.

A round-table discussion by contributors to eGirls, eCitizens (uOttawa Press, 2015) will be held at the Canadian Communication Association Conference from 10:15 am - 11:45 am at STE C0136. The panel presentation, entitled "eGirls, eCitizens: A Dialogue on Theory and Policy", will highlight the contributions of several authors of the eGirls, eCitizens volume, including Valerie Steeves, Jane Bailey, Leslie Regan Shade, Madelaine Saginur, Trevor Scott Milford and Sarah Heath). The full schedule for this panel can be seen here.

Later in the day, Professors Steeves and Bailey, together with Matthew Johnson of MediaSmarts and Jordan Fairbairn of Carleton University, will lead an author meets reader session to discuss their contributions to eGirls, eCitizens (uOttawa Press, 2015) at the Canadian Law & Society Conference, also held at the University of Ottawa (FTX 133), from 3:45 – 5:15 pm.