ABSTRACT
This chapter argues for a focus on young people's ethical perspectives on internet uses, practices and risk taking. It also proposes the concept of positioning to capture how individuals, including young people, negotiate public discourses about what is worthy of attention, risky or considered acceptable both on the internet and in traditional media channels. The chapter argues that in evaluating what is risky or ethically acceptable when using the internet, children and young people need to develop their own moral compass. It also focuses on the moral judgements that children and young people make in relation to what is risky online or not, based on qualitative data in which they define risk and discuss their internet-related experiences in their own terms. Audience researchers have observed that people often view their media use in moral terms, questioning whether it is something that is valuable to spend time on or not.
