In this vital and timely book, Dr Bex Lewis shows us how to empower young people to get the best out of new technology and to avoid it's dangers. For most parents, teachers and youth workers, getting to grips with new technology is a huge challenge - Twitter, Facebook, blogging, chat rooms, email, the internet and beyond - and as technology changes and young people grasp it faster than the older generations do, it can be a real struggle to know what to do to help, equip and defend.

This is an important and timely book: Keeping our children safe is of critical importance and a huge source of concern for many. Dr. Bex Lewis shows us how.

Bex Lewis is the Research Fellow in Social Media and Online Learning for CODECm ST Johns, Durham, and the founder of Digital Fingerprint. She has wide ranging interests and expertise, having taught in HE since 1998, in the subject areas of History, Media Studies, Design for Digital Media, American Studies, Film Studies and Journalism Bex is a social media 'resident', and has developed a strong Community of Practice through a combination of social media and conference/workshop attendance.

Her diverse background as a lecturer across a range of disciplines has helped her to understand the range of responses to technology among colleagues, and to have credibility as an education developer in this exponentially growing field.