National Press Club today: Inspire-led CRC on young people and technology.
- Last updated: 18 August 2011
18 August 2011
Technology and new media have dramatically changed the way in which young people interact with their world, shaping relationships and redefining ‘being connected’. Social media can deeply influence their happiness, and how successful they are at school, employment and with friends. The flip side of the technology revolution is the rise of serious challenges for young people: cyberbullying, social isolation and discrimination.
Chief Executive Officer of the new Inspire-led Cooperative Research Centre for Young People, Technology and Wellbeing (YAW-CRC), Associate Professor Jane Burns, will explore these challenges and outline YAW-CRC’s plans to tackle them, at an address to the National Press Club in Canberra today, at 12.30pm. The topic of her address is The Happiness Highway: Leveraging technologies to improve wellbeing for young Australians.
Today’s address will be broadcast live on ABC News 24 at http://www.abc.net.au/news/abcnews24/, head to http://www.yawcrc.org.au/ for more information.
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