How Not to Mess Up Online: A teenager’s guide ... to not getting catfished, sued, arrested, cancelled or addicted
Jun 2025 · Penguin Random House South Africa
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Selfies, Sexts, and Smartphones is the book every teenager (and their parents) should read. At least, that was true seven years ago. The digital world moves at breakneck speed. Since then, we’ve seen the rise of ‘we did it, Joe’, the fall of Harambe, the spread of ‘sus’—and that’s just the memes. Today’s teens have to navigate AI, deep fakes, misinformation, and so much more. Meanwhile, the law struggles to keep up, leaving plenty of hidden legal pitfalls. If fully developed adult brains struggle with it, what hope does a teenager’s freshly baked prefrontal cortex have?
Enter Rorke and Emma with How Not to Mess Up Online. Emma is a continental digital law specialist (and first responder to every social media crisis). Rorke, an elder Gen Z, has the lived experience teens can relate to. Together, they break down the digital world’s biggest challenges and help teens to exist consciously—and, hopefully, safely—online.
This book covers everything every teen should know: cyberbullying, sexting, sextortion, addiction, online safety, deep fakes, mental health, privacy, reputation, misinformation, scams, AI, ChatGPT, plagiarism, new laws, and more—all in a South African context. With real-life case studies from Emma’s work and unfortunate anecdotes from Rorke’s life in the digital trenches, we help today’s youth reap the benefits of the internet without ever needing to place a call to The Digital Law Company.
Enter Rorke and Emma with How Not to Mess Up Online. Emma is a continental digital law specialist (and first responder to every social media crisis). Rorke, an elder Gen Z, has the lived experience teens can relate to. Together, they break down the digital world’s biggest challenges and help teens to exist consciously—and, hopefully, safely—online.
This book covers everything every teen should know: cyberbullying, sexting, sextortion, addiction, online safety, deep fakes, mental health, privacy, reputation, misinformation, scams, AI, ChatGPT, plagiarism, new laws, and more—all in a South African context. With real-life case studies from Emma’s work and unfortunate anecdotes from Rorke’s life in the digital trenches, we help today’s youth reap the benefits of the internet without ever needing to place a call to The Digital Law Company.
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Emma Sadleir Berkowitz is Africa’s leading expert on social media law and founder of the Digital Law Company. She specialises in media law, defamation, privacy and online risk management, advising corporates, schools and universities. With a BA LLB from Wits and an LLM from LSE, she previously worked in media litigation at Webber Wentzel. Emma lectures on social media law, reputation management and digital policies. A frequent media commentator, she covered the Oscar Pistorius trial for Carte Blanche and the BBC. She is the co-author of Don't Film Yourself Having Sex and Selfies, Sexts & Smartphones.
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