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    Child Online Safety Intervention Through Empowering Parents and Technical Experts: Indian Context
    (Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2020) Andrews, D.; Alathur, S.; Chetty, N.
    Child online safety is a state of being protected from online problematic content and environment. Purpose of this study is to examine the stakeholders’ empowered status influence on child online safety. Using questionnaires survey responses on relational aspects of stakeholder empowerment and child online safety is collected from parents and technical experts who were working with the Internet safety. The responses are analyzed with the help of SPSS software and the results are examined for influencing factors of child online safety. Restricting resources, blocking at different levels and parental control are the different influencing factors of child online safety. As the parental control influencing factor exists with both the models of parents and technical experts initiated, it plays an important role in attaining child online safety. The influencing factors which are observed from the study can be emphasized to control child online threats and provide online safety. © 2020, IFIP International Federation for Information Processing.
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    Child online safety in indian context
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2020) Andrews, D.; Alathur, S.; Chetty, N.; Kumar, V.
    Children initiates the usage of Internet during young age and spend more time online. Apart from the benefits like improved education, entertainment, news and gaming, Internet poses severe threats to the children online. Ensuring online safety is a global challenge. The purpose of this paper is to examine online social media responses and awareness posts on children online safety. In this relation, Twitter social media responses after freeing the accusers of children sexual harassment and Facebook pages of some prominent personalities in India for online safety are analyzed. The results reveal that though the people are angry and fearful, they believe judiciary and police system and expecting safety from the same. The analysis of Facebook posts depicts that the concerned authorities are active towards child online safety and providing awareness through their representatives. People demand legal actions against the perpetrators of the crime to punish them. The necessary actions should be taken for cyber-crime awareness information to reach all social media users. © 2020 IEEE.
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    Computational Analysis of Online Hate Content using Cognitive -AI
    (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021) Chetty, N.; Alathur, S.; Andrews, D.; Kumar, V.
    As the hate content is expressed based on the identity of an individual, it is influencing communal violence in society. The inappropriate content can be detected and analyzed using automated AI systems. The purpose of this paper is to study the role of AI systems in the detection of online hate content and how the cognitive processes affect the behavior of an individual. Therefore, using related keywords in the research domain, the published articles are searched through different search engines. The information from the associated articles and sources is reported in the paper. The literature review revealed that social media platforms could use AI systems to detect and analyze online hate content. It has been observed that the cognitive process affects both the perpetrators and the victims of online hate content. The paper also highlights some of the challenges in controlling online hate content. The paper concludes with a note that the hate content can be reduced by building robust AI systems and healthier cognitive processes of an individual. © 2021 IEEE.
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    International efforts for children online safety: A survey
    (Inderscience Publishers, 2020) Andrews, D.; Alathur, S.; Chetty, N.
    Children online safety is a global issue and attaining international attention to address it. Often, children are vulnerable to online threats. Aim of this paper is to review children online safety issues and identify existing international efforts for reducing online risks. In this regard, efforts from available international bodies for providing online safety to children are reviewed and reported. To overcome online risks, understanding the behaviour of online ecosystem and coping after facing risks are most important. The ecosystem involves different stakeholders such as service providers, physical network, online users being connected, social media sites and tools and technology. Elimination of online risks is difficult but the intensity of risks can be reduced. © © 2020 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd.