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Bullying made easy

June 12, 2007 By Anne Leave a Comment

University of Michigan student Emmarie spent “countless hours” as a teenager “justifying [her] online journal to her parents,” she writes in her university’s student newspaper, The Michigan Daily. They didn’t understand why she wanted to make her private thoughts so public, but she said it made her “feel connected knowing that someone knew my exact mood at that moment … and my side of the latest … [Read more...] about Bullying made easy

Filed Under: blogs, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: online journals

Extreme cyberbullying: 2 cases

June 1, 2007 By Anne Leave a Comment

By “extreme,” I mean bullying that has led to teen suicide attempts. Two such cases involving three New Zealand girls have come to my attention in the past week – one through our BlogSafety forum and the other covered in that country’s national news media. The Sunday News in NZ reported this week that two 15-year-old secondary-school students were tricked by another girl into believing two teenage … [Read more...] about Extreme cyberbullying: 2 cases

Filed Under: cyberbullying, Parenting, Risk & Safety, social networking, suicide

Classified-ads abuse

May 24, 2007 By Anne Leave a Comment

This unnerving story could involve any classified-ads service on the social Web. A woman who apparently wanted to “get back at her aunt” for being unfair to her mother placed an ad in Craigslist.com “inviting the public to ‘come and take anything you want’ from the [aunt’s] house,” Scripps News reports. The public did, and the woman has been charged with “one count each of second-degree burglary, … [Read more...] about Classified-ads abuse

Filed Under: cyberbullying, Risk & Safety

Social Web’s complexity: Illustration

May 24, 2007 By Anne Leave a Comment

The story on WhosaRat.com, though not about youth, clearly illustrates how complicated the user-driven Web is. The site - whose mission is to out “rats” (informants or what judges call “cooperators”) by publishing court records – is a lot like a social-networking site. It “offers biographical information about people whom users identify as witnesses or undercover agents. Users can post court … [Read more...] about Social Web’s complexity: Illustration

Filed Under: cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, social networking

Consult ‘Cyber-Safe Kids…’

May 11, 2007 By Anne Leave a Comment

There is no other tech-parenting manual you'll need besides Nancy Willard's Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens. Please click to this week's issue of my newsletter to find out why. … [Read more...] about Consult ‘Cyber-Safe Kids…’

Filed Under: cyberbullying, Risk & Safety

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IMPORTANT RESOURCES

Our (DIGITAL) PARENTING BASICS: Safety + Social
NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education
CASEL.org & the 5 core social-emotional competencies of SEL
Center for Democracy & Technology
Center for Innovative Public Health Research
Childnet International
Committee for Children
Congressional Internet Caucus Academy
ConnectSafely.org
Control Shift: a pivotal book for Internet safety
Crimes Against Children Research Center
Crisis Textline
Cyber Civil Rights Initiative's Revenge Porn Crisis Line
Cyberwise.org
danah boyd's blog and book about networked youth
Disconnected, Carrie James's book on digital ethics
FOSI.org's Good Digital Parenting
The research of Global Kids Online
The Good Project at Harvard's School of Education
If you watch nothing else: "Parenting in a Digital Age" TED Talk by Prof. Sonia Livingstone
The International Bullying Prevention Association
Let Grow Foundation
Making Caring Common
Raising Digital Natives, author Devorah Heitner's site
Renee Hobbs at the Media Education Lab
MediaSmarts.ca
The New Media Literacies
Report of the Aspen Task Force on Learning & the Internet and our guide to Creating Trusted Learning Environments
The Ruler Approach to social-emotional learning (Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence)
Sources of Strength
"Young & Online: Perspectives on life in a digital age" from young people in 26 countries (via UNICEF)
"Youth Safety on a Living Internet": 2010 report of the Online Safety & Technology Working Group (and my post about it)

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