For this project I am planning to do something that involves the internet (internet communities, missing children websites) and missing children cases. Although I do not have a specific research question yet, I plan to investigate what is being done on the internet to help find missing children, but also how the internet helps pedophiles and other online predators locate victims.
In my research, I hope to show the efforts that are being made by online communities and internet users to help find these missing children, I hope to show the progress of these efforts.
Information that I need to gather would be to find sites on online communities dedicated to missing children. I've found a couple on myspace and there are groups that you can join, but I definitely will search for more
examples:
http://www.myspace.com/theyneedyourhelp
http://www.myspace.com/helpfindkids
and I have also found a helpful website dedicated to internet safety for children:http://www.enough.org/
On the Website it talks about a partnership with myspace and district attorneys to help keep kids safe online.
I will be looking for more websites and looking through news articles to find cases of missing children that are linked to online encounters.
POTENTIAL RESEARCH QUESTIONS: My topic deals with how the internet helps find missing children on the internet, but also how some have gone missing because of encounters on the internet..
I HAVE POSTED SOME RESEARCH QUESTIONS:
How is the internet changing the future of child abduction?
What is being done to stop online predators from abducting children on the internet?
Are websites for missing children effective?
Contrary to helping the cause to find missing children, the internet also increases the amount of access that online predators have to finding potential victims. What can be done about that?
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Maybe you can find some websites that discuss different cases where children were found by someone who recognized their picture while searching the Internet. You could also talk about how times have changed where pictures used to be on milk cartons to now on the computers. This will help show how the internet is positively helping to locate missing children.
You can maybe use the Chris Hansen on Dateline NBC as a reference on how to catch online predators. Also you can list the differences of the virtual and physical world when it comes to catching predators and searching for missing children.
Will it be resticted to children? Is your research about the sites avaible or which are most effective? This sounds like it could turn into a good resource for someone who is missing a loved one to find a great way to post information about them?
I like when you said that you would like to see how many children have gone missing because of the internet. I wonder which percentage is greater, the recovery of children through the internet of the loss of them because of it? Also it would be interesting to know how many children have been found because of the internet and their stories.
I think it would be a really good topic if you maybe focused on the idea of sexual predators and missing children and how these people are finding the children. In that you can incorportate the myspace websites that offer support to help find the missing children. You can use it to explain that when these children go missing, support groups are formed and people come together to help find the children. You can also try to find some ways that will inform us on how to prevent sexual predators from accessing these children.
It's easy to google someone and with enough digging get all of their info. Are there any rules against posting children's information online, whether it's companies or people that do it?
Thank you for your comments that you posted on my blog. Your points have been really helpful toward my project.
I am very interested in your topic because children & online predators is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. How many times do we turn on the news & see the latest child missing? You may want to try & visit a local police department, asking them about what they do in catching predators. You could also mention Amber Alert & its effectiveness.
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