New
Media Task Force
At the White
House Conference on Teenagers, the First Lady announced creation of a New Media
Task Force, a public-private effort to provide tools to parents and teens for
navigating the new media and for guidance in monitoring its' use. The task
force plans to complete its work over the next six months and will:
Establish an Internet site that provides centralized
information for parents of teenagers, including a newly developed,
"Parenting Resources in the
21st Century" website.
Establish a portal for teenagers that includes
non-commercial, teenage-friendly resources on the Internet; and
Provide guidance to local communities on how to set up
central information centers (via local websites and toll-free numbers) that
list services, hotlines, and community opportunities to teenagers and their
parents.
For the Conference itself, the First Lady challenged the
Entertainment Industry to develop a one-stop website for parents to learn more
about how to monitor their children's interaction with the media. This
parental media
guide gives parents more and better information about how to use the
current media rating systems, including those voluntarily put in place by the
movie, television, music and computer/video game industries.
Members of the New Media Task Force currently include the
Center for Media Education, the American Psychological Association,
America's Promise, the Children's Defense Fund, the National Network
for Youth, the United Way of America, and GetNetWise.
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