Anna Rywczyńska works in NASK as Polish Safer Internet Centre Coordinator and Public Relations Manager.

Graduated from the Warsaw University, Institute of Journalism with specialization in media economics and Institute of Archaeology, Department of Historical Anthropology - Andean Archaeological Mission.

She joined NASK in 2003. She has a wide experience in working on international projects, social campaigns related to Internet safety and is one of the organizers of SECURE conference - the oldest IT security conference in Poland.

In 2007 she was a vice chair of the international conference "Keeping Children and Young People Safe Online" organized in frames of the Saferinternet.pl project.

ABSTRACT

30 September, Wednesday, 14.30 - 16.30

Parallel session: Digital lifestyles – safety in social networking sites
Presentation topic: Blogs – life online 

During the past few years we have witnessed a progressing transfer our daily activities, experiences, and thoughts to the Internet. The virtual world begins to merge with our daily life. We have observed rapid development of social networking sites such as Facebook or Twitter, through which we can share our plans, information and thoughts, support various social initiatives, join interesting thematic groups; we live... moving our interests and (in many cases) our real-world friends to the Web. Adults enter the virtual world quite timidly, while children seem to feel comfortably settled there. There are millions of weblogs in Poland and thousands are entered for the Blog of the Year contest. However, when enjoying the benefits of the Internet, children often forget about the risk associated with moving a large part of their privacy to a web profile. They reveal their personal data and write emotional online diaries, unprepared for vulgar comments. They create fictitious sites, including weblogs, unaware of the harm that can be caused by such jokes. Therefore, the presentation will introduce the audience to the weblog world and draw their attention to threats related to the "digital lifestyle". It will also describe the weblog-related experiences gathered during the implementation of the Safer Internet programme in Poland.