Family School Media

1. Family School Media

2. The average Australian: • watches 3.13 of TV a day; • 70 year old Australian has spent nine years in front of the TV; • 61% of all homes have two or more TVs • the lower the socio economic range of your school the MORE they consume media products across the board.

3. The average 10-18 year old • watches 1.9 hours of TV a day • 5.5 years by their 70th birthday • Online 2.5 hours a day • 7.2 years by their 70th birthday • 2007 was the first year of higher online time than TV watching

4. Events1 AFL Grand Final (10)2 Tennis Aus Open Men's Final (7)3 Rugby League Grand Final (9) Comedy1 Kath and Kim (7)2 Thank God You're Here (10) 3 The Chaser's War on Everything (ABC)4 Summer Heights High (ABC) 5 the Simpsons (10)

5. Drama1 House (10)2 Grey's Anatomy (7) 3 Home and Away (7) 4 Neighbours (10) 5Desperate Housewives (7) Documentary1 Border Security (7)2 Surf Patrol (7) No Current Affairs

6. Variety1 Dancing With The Stars (7)2 It Takes Two (7)3 Australia's Got Talent (7) 4 Australian Idol (10) 5 Spicks and Specks (ABC) SOURCE: OzTAM mainland capital

7. 4 Corners (47 years) • Playschool (44 years) • Mass For You At Home (38 years) • A Current Affair (37 years) • 60 Minutes (29 years)

8. The most visited websites in Australia last year were • Google • Yahoo • Windows • Qantas • FaceBook • YouTube • EBay • Ninemsn • Wikipedia • Seek.com

9. “They amassed more information about people in 10 years than all the governments of the world put together.” Andrew Keen, The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture and Assaulting Our Economy “We offer services in two flavours. If you don’t sign in, but go straight to search, then for all essential purposes (sic) the information is anonymous. If you sign in, it’ll remember your browsing history and give you the benefits of personalised service. Even for these services you can use a pseudonym: Google doesn’t need to know and doesn’t want to know your real name.”Peter Fleischer

10. The most visited websites for 13-18 year • Google • FaceBook • Yahoo • YouTube • Bebo • Wikipedia • Flickr • Imdb • Photobucket • Ripcurl

11. Google Google • Yahoo FaceBook • Windows Yahoo • Qantas YouTube • FaceBook Bebo • YouTube Wikipedia • EBay Flickr • Ninemsn imdb • Wikipedia Photobucket • Seek.com Ripcurl

12. enable connectedness, opens new worlds and raises consciousness • allow a space for the sharing of lives and stories • an elaborate and electronic form of having pen pals • democratic media (My Space is dying because Google bought YouTube) • professional and student study circles and networks (very helpful for gifted students) • technological clubs and societies

13. Prof Christine Greenhow, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota (2007): • students became more proficient at: technology skills creativity being open to new or diverse views communication skills. • “Students are developing a positive attitude towards using technology systems, editing and customizing content and thinking about online design and layout. They're also sharing creative original work like poetry and film and practicing safe and responsible use of information and technology. The Web sites offer tremendous educational potential.”

14. Accessing and educating alumni Cardinal Virtues and Christian Values • justice, fidelity, self-esteem, and prudence • mercy and hospitality The Seven Deadly Sins • pride, greed, envy, anger, lust, gluttony and sloth.

15. Cyberbullying of staff and students • Privacy • Inappropriate disclosure Remind our school community that any defamatory written communication can be libellous as long as it's transmitted to a third party Defamatory remarks can be slanderous if they are said on a mobile phone in earshot of a third party in way that identifies the subject “If you would not stand up and tell the whole school assembly what happened at home last night, don’t write it online. You are telling the world.” Gossip is not about knowledge it is about power. Apart from the Civil Law, the Code of Canon Law even says I have “rights to my good name” (Canon 1401). Our rule: “Do unto others what you have them do unto you.”

16. The mediated self • The real versus the idealised self • Identity theft • Techno Addict “Impulse disorder with addictive qualities” Preoccupation with the Internet or technology – thoughts about previous on-line activity or anticipation of the next on-line session dominate

17. Use of the Internet in increasing amounts of time in order to achieve satisfaction. Repeated, unsuccessful efforts to control, cut back, or stop Internet Feelings of restlessness, moodiness, depression or irritability when attempting to cut down use of the Internet.

18. Regularly online much longer than originally intended. Jeopardized or risked loss of significant relationships, job, educational or career opportunities because of Internet use. Lies to family members, therapist, or others to conceal the extent of involvement with the Internet.

19. impairment of real life relationships are disrupted as a result of excessive use of the technology too much time is spent alone in unsupervised media consumption secrecy becomes paramount (locked doors) – socially withdraws deceit is common in an attempt to conceal the amount of time spent on-line. Excessive interest in violent material

20. Impulse addicts take risks at work and home with the sites they visit. Arguments occur about the amount of time, the content of the material being consumed and its effect on the person. Financial problems may occur due to charges, hard ware soft ware, purchases made, or gambling done on line. Technology now becomes one of the six narcotics for modern living to escape feelings of hopelessness, guilt, anxiety, depression: alcohol, drugs, sex, gambling, work and technology.

21. Worldwide the online porn industry is estimated to worth $4.9b, with 72 million unique visitors last year to X rated sites. Successive government inquiries into the organised crime and drug industries found they were major stakeholders in, and producers of online pornography In 2007 the Australian pornography DVD industry made 2.6 million sales

22. 250 registered sex shops grossed $100 million selling ‘marital aids’ 1.4 million phone calls made to sex chat lines on other Optus or Telstra Collective monthly average sale for “soft porn” magazines was 250,000 This is within one generation!

23. “Boys will not be boys” - at least not in a school conducted in Christ’s name Sexuality is a gift to be enjoyed, nurtured and developed and to be relished with care Sex is not just one of many recreational options available

24. John Paul II: human rights versus human dignity We stand against anything that reduces sex to a commodity we trade for fun or favours, rather than as a special and important gift we celebrate with our spouse as an expression of the sacrificial love we are already sharing. Be alert, that the access to pornography could be as big an issue for members of our staff as it is for some of our students

25. Generally, banning media does not work – it creates a culture of deceit “Media values” education of staff, students and parents is not an optional extra anymore – we are educating a visual culture whether we like it or not Stop saying “don’t judge”

26. Demopoulos, Ted. What No One Ever Tells You About Blogging and Podcasting Real-life Advice from 101 People Who Successfully Leverage the Power of the Blogosphere [electronic resource]. Palo Alt: ebrary, 2007. • Gosney, John. Blogging for Teens. Boston: Thompson Course Technology, c2004. • Greenhow, Christine. A Study of Internet Trends for 13-18 year olds 2005 -2007, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota, 2008. • Healey, Justin, ed. Impacts of the internet. Thirroul (NSW): Spinney Press, c2006. • Keen, Andrew. The Cult of the Amateur: How Today's Internet Is Killing Our Culture and the Future Economy, Scribe, 2007. • Lumby, Catherine et al. The Porn Report, Melbourne University Press, 2008. • The Illinois Institute for Addiction Recovery. Report on Techno Addiction, 2008.