Stephen Carrick-Davies
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Stephen Carrick-Davies has worked in the area of technology and young people for 14 years, first at Childnet International where he was the CEO until 2008 and most recently as a freelance consultant, writer and social entrepreneur. His recent work has involved him working with vulnerable excluded young people in ‘special schools’ and helping those who work with them to best support these youth through social media. See www.carrick-davies.com for more information.

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Online Empathy - Erosion or Evolution?

(0) Comments | Posted 19 July 2012 | (11:50)

What picture, or metaphor comes to mind, when you think of Empathy? A waiting outstretched hand, a mother stooping down to kiss a child's scraped knee, a silent long embrace at the end of a funeral service? It's different for different people because empathy by its very nature is uniquely...

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Empathy Download

(2) Comments | Posted 25 May 2012 | (01:00)

The findings from a study published last week which found that "more than half of the UK population claim to be contemplating revenge and that social networks are the preferred platform for getting even," should not come as any surprise, especially to those who constantly live their lives online.

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Gaga's Born This Way Foundation: Are We Born To be Brave?

(1) Comments | Posted 5 March 2012 | (09:51)

The Sander's Theatre Memorial Hall at Harvard University is a beautiful ancient cathedral to learning. In its time it has hosted a range of great orators who have tested the hall's outstanding acoustics; Winston Churchill, Theordore Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr. all movement-makers in their time, all brave men who...

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Safer Internet Day and Fraping: He Who Filches From Me My Good Name...

(2) Comments | Posted 7 February 2012 | (10:40)

Today is SID: Safer Internet Day (SID) for those not in the know. An annual event organised by the EU to remind us that it's good to be safe online. Of course if so many of the other online days of the year weren't so unsafe, we wouldn't need a...

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