Peer-reviewed article
Parental education in media literacy, social media, and internet safety for children in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Dragana Trninić, Anđela Kuprešanin Vukelić, Jovana Mlinarević ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001This study examines how well parents in Bosnia and Herzegovina understand internet safety regulations and the tools available to protect their children online. The research found that most parents lack sufficient knowledge of regulatory mechanisms and do not use available protective tools effectively. The study emphasizes that children need parental guidance to benefit from digital technologies while avoiding potential harms, and reviews the international legal framework governing child protection online.
Key points
- Parents in Bosnia and Herzegovina are not sufficiently educated about regulatory mechanisms for protecting children online
- Most parents are not using available tools to protect their children online
- International legal frameworks for child internet protection are binding on national frameworks in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Children require adult help to safely navigate digital technologies and protect themselves from negative aspects
- Parents have responsibility to ensure children use digital technologies safely
Limitations
The document does not provide detailed quantitative results, sample sizes, or specific findings about which protective tools parents are failing to use. It does not clarify which age groups of children were studied or what specific regulatory mechanisms parents were unaware of.
Abstract
Parents have a great responsibility to protect their children while online, and to make sure that they are using digital technologies in a safe manner; at the same time, parents are not sufficiently educated and are unfamiliar with all regulatory mechanisms and possibilities of controlling and protecting their children online. Children need some help to take advantage of all positive aspects of digital trends and to protect themselves from those which are potentially negative. The international framework in the legal sense, which is in charge of standardizing the protection of the interests and rights of children on the Internet, is put in the focus of the work. It is important to note that the international legal framework is generally valid and binding for the national framework that regulates the same issues in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). The aim of this research is to establish how well parents from BiH are acquainted with the Internet-related regulations and the mechanisms for ensuring Internet safety for their children and to what extent these mechanisms are being applied. The results of this research demonstrate that the majority of parents are not sufficiently familiar with the regulatory mechanisms and that they are not using all available tools to protect their children online.