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What is Filtering Software

Chapter 29
Handbook of Research on New Media Literacy at the K-12 Level: Issues and Challenges
Filter systems are applications which regulate access to information or services on the internet according to defined criteria. They can be installed on the user’s PC (and nowadays on mobile phones too), on a central internet computer belonging to an institution (e.g. on a proxy server in a school) or on the computers of an internet access provider and trigger a variety of different reactions: They can warn against problematic Websites, record the user’s path through the internet in detail, block incriminated sites or even turn off a computer altogether.
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Towards Safer Internet for Students with the Aid of a Hypermedia Filtering Tool
Fotis Lazarinis (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Copyright: © 2009 |Pages: 14
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-60566-120-9.ch029
Abstract
Internet as a new medium offers unlimited opportunities to education and knowledge sharing but it can also shape specific improper attitudes and cultivate erroneous and potentially dangerous ideas. As more kids go online worldwide so do the concern increases about the safeness of the websites they visit. In this chapter a list of potential online risks is presented. Then, the safeness of the favorite Web sites of 270 Greek high school students is assessed in connection with these online risks. Inappropriate content was found in more than 30% of the evaluated Web pages, although specific security policies apply to computer labs of Greek schools. Last, a filtering tool for analyzing and restricting the access to improper Web sites is presented and evaluated.
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