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Popularity: The other kind of vulnerability

April 9, 2014 By Anne Leave a Comment

A study cited in "When Popularity Backfires" at Time.com found that socially ambitious kids can be just as likely to experience bullying and harassment as "social outcasts" at school. Interested in the "hotspots" of social aggression in students' social experiences at school, sociology professors Robert Faris at University of California Davis and Diane Felmlee at Pennsylvania State University … [Read more...] about Popularity: The other kind of vulnerability

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Research, Risk & Safety, victimization Tagged With: bullying, cyberbullying, Diane Felmlee, drama, peer victimization, Robert Faris, school, social aggression, social mobility

Will Maryland AG’s project with Facebook teach him about social media?

October 7, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

Schools and parents may be interested to hear about a pilot program Facebook has put in place with Maryland's Attorney General Douglas Gansler, because – if successful – it may roll out nationwide. The "Educator Escalation Channel" offers school staff dealing with cyberbullying (one point person per school system) a "direct channel" to Facebook staff that handles abuse reports, the AG's office … [Read more...] about Will Maryland AG’s project with Facebook teach him about social media?

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, Social Media Tagged With: Attorney General Gansler, cyberbullying, Facebook, social aggression, Social Media

‘Healthy divas & divos’ good for social media culture too

April 30, 2013 By Anne 1 Comment

They're "healthy divas," not drama queens, people. Two very different things, the Wall Street Journal points out. The distinction and the reported emergence of this positive kind of diva in media culture might be a positive for kids who, when they have time for entertainment, lean toward the celebrity-watch variety – not to mention for online and school communities. "Divas (and their male … [Read more...] about ‘Healthy divas & divos’ good for social media culture too

Filed Under: Literacy & Citizenship, Parenting, Social Media Tagged With: bullying, cyberbullying, divas, drama queen, Parenting, social aggression, Social Media

‘Bullying’ & ‘peer victimization’: Clearer terms, better communication

August 29, 2012 By Anne 6 Comments

I suspect two reasons why people (mistakenly) think cyberbullying is on the rise are… Its increased visibility: Cruel words and behaviors are unprecedentedly public now, because of the social Web, so that's what's actually growing – the exposure – which is sometimes confused with the behavior itself. The confusion needs to be cleared up. The exposure may be scary, but it's a net gain because … [Read more...] about ‘Bullying’ & ‘peer victimization’: Clearer terms, better communication

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, victimization Tagged With: Alice Marwick, bullying, cyberbullying, danah boyd, David Finkelhor, Heather Turner, Karen Siris, Marianne Malmstrom, peer aggression, peer victimization, Sherry Hamby, social aggression, terminology

Help for parents of kids dealing with bullying

September 9, 2011 By Anne 3 Comments

"When a child mentions schoolyard dialog that sounds almost surreal, or reveals an eyebrow raising text message and asks, 'ok, so what would you say to THIS?' I want to be able to apply calm, social emotional learning rather than have analysis paralysis with stunned, kneejerk reactions to blunt, crude one-liners, thinking 'wth? did they really just say that? Yougawdabekiddinme' More often than not … [Read more...] about Help for parents of kids dealing with bullying

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Parenting, Risk & Safety Tagged With: Amy Jussel, Annie Fox, bullying, cyberbullying, family tech policy, Parenting, Rosalind Wiseman, social aggression, zero tolerance

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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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