{"id":84345,"date":"2018-06-20T09:29:27","date_gmt":"2018-06-20T13:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/84345///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/84345//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/84345//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/84345//?p=84345"},"modified":"2018-07-02T08:35:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-02T12:35:38","slug":"award-to-help-professor-research-prevention-of-online-exploitation-of-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/84345///news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/84345//www.ucf.edu/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/84345//news/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/84345//award-to-help-professor-research-prevention-of-online-exploitation-of-children/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/84345//","title":{"rendered":"Award to Help Professor Research Prevention of Online Exploitation of Children"},"content":{"rendered":"
Technology has advanced the way we interact, learn and even socialize. But it has also increased unintended dangers, especially for teens and children. More than half of children 10 to 17 years old have received at least one online sexual solicitation in the past year, according to researchers./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/84345/n
Pamela Wisniewski is hoping to change that. The assistant professor of computer science studies how adolescents interact with technology and how this interaction amplifies certain risks. She recently received the William T. Grant Scholars Program Award to look at ways to provide young people the tools they need to prevent them from becoming victims of sexual predators./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/84345/n