The Berkman Center’s mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions.
We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.
The scope of this literature review is to map out what is currently understood about the
intersections of youth, reputation, and privacy online, focusing on youth attitudes and practices.
We summarize both key empirical studies from quantitative and qualitative perspectives and the
legal issues involved in regulating privacy and reputation. This project includes studies of
children, teenagers, and younger college students. For the purposes of this document, we use
“teenagers” or “adolescents” to refer to young people ages 13-19; children are considered to be
0-12 years old.