Frontline: Growing Up Online

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To study the impact of the Internet on adolescence, it helps to examine the subject through the eyes of teens and their parents. This episode of Frontline enters the private worlds that young people, for better or worse, are creating online. In doing so, it brings viewers face-to-face with issues that kids confront every day-bullying, harassment, alienation, sexuality, and even bizarre forms of celebrity. Viewers are enabled to explore the complicated and often nebulous lines being drawn between the real and virtual worlds and how these new paradigms are affecting today's impressionable minds
Public Private Lives on Kids Online (1:25)
Internet Without Supervision (1:56)
Internet: Teen Expression in Virtual World (1:36)
Parents: Out of Touch and Out of Control (1:43)
Internet and Education (1:24)
Today's Students: Non-Readers (1:57)
Online Cheating (1:12)
Teachers as Technology Dinosaurs (0:25)
Teens: Virtual Socializing (1:54)
From Virtual Fighting to Physical Fighting (1:51)
Generational Differences and Online Photos (1:54)
Alternative Online Personalities (1:42)
Online Fame (1:40)
Repercussions of Virtual Personality (2:17)
Internet and Teen Safety (2:22)
Fear of Internet Predators (1:29)
Parental Access to Passwords (1:57)
Sexual Solicitations Online (1:45)
Teen Anorexics: Private Suffering (3:06)
Internet: Willing Listener (1:04)
Misbehavior Posted Online (1:48)
Parental Involvement in Teens' Lives (1:55)
Internet: Generation Gap (1:00)
Secret Lives of Teens (3:09)
Father Probes His Son's Suicide (2:49)
Online Co-Conspirators (2:18)
Cyberbullying (1:04)
Public Life Today: Internet (2:14)
Today's Graduates: Hooked on Virtual Reality? (2:07)

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