Common Sense Media and Verizon Announce Partnership to Promote Digital Citizenship

Common Sense Media and Verizon announced a partnership that will bring digital citizenship tools and advice to parents and kids across the United States. Parent advice and video tips are now featured in the Verizon Parental Controls Center, and lessons from Common Sense Media's groundbreaking digital literacy and citizenship curriculum will be available at Verizon Thinkfinity in early 2011.

Verizon is the first telecommunications company to partner with Common Sense Media, whose distribution portals also include Comcast, Cox Communications, DIRECTV, Time Warner Cable, Netflix, Fandango, GreatSchools, Best Buy, and Yahoo! The Verizon Parental Controls Center will host weekly Common Sense Media blogs and video tips providing tips and advice on the topics most important to parents in a 24/7 media world -- from preventing cyberbullying to helping kids manage their online privacy to deciding when is the right time to get your child a cell phone.