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Reasons why ’13 Reasons Why’ demands discussion

April 27, 2017 By Anne Leave a Comment

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By now, if you live or work with young people, you've probably heard about "13 Reasons Why," Netflix's dramatic series about a teenager's suicide. Based on a Young Adult book of the same title, the series – now a hot topic at schools in the U.S. and other countries – needs discussing. On one hand, it exposes issues today's high school students often face (among them, depression, bullying, … [Read more...] about Reasons why ’13 Reasons Why’ demands discussion

Filed Under: Parenting, Risk & Safety, suicide Tagged With: 13 Reasons Why, Jed Foundation, Netflix, SAVE, suicide prevention

How social media helped save a life this week

November 15, 2013 By Anne Leave a Comment

Rarely do we see news stories about how social media can save lives, but that's literally what happened in the metropolitan New York area this week. An 18-year-old posted in Facebook that he was thinking about jumping off the George Washington Bridge, and "a concerned Facebook user who saw the post contacted local New Jersey police, who then called the Port Authority Police Department, which has … [Read more...] about How social media helped save a life this week

Filed Under: Risk & Safety, Social Media, suicide Tagged With: Facebook, New York Port Authority, Social Media, suicide prevention

The highly problematic term ‘cyberbullycide’

August 16, 2012 By Anne Leave a Comment

Don't use it, and be skeptical of any so-called authority who does use it. "Cyberbullycide" (or "bullycide") is not clever, is not accurate, and its use could be harmful. Among other reasons why it isn't accurate (see this by prevention specialist Patti Agatston), the term suggests that cyberbullying is the sole cause of a suicide, and suicide prevention experts tell us that "suicidal behavior is … [Read more...] about The highly problematic term ‘cyberbullycide’

Filed Under: bullying, cyberbullying, Risk & Safety, social norms, suicide Tagged With: bullying, cyberbullying, Patti Agatston, resiliency, social norming, suicide, suicide prevention

Learning how to save lives in Facebook

January 13, 2011 By Anne 1 Comment

In a very sad story reported in the London Evening Standard, hardly any of the 1,048 Facebook friends of Simone Back of Brighton, UK, did anything to try to prevent her suicide after she posted a status update saying goodbye, she was taking "all my pills." Her mother, who called the UK equivalent of 911 after someone texted her about the post, told the Evening Standard that no FB friends local to … [Read more...] about Learning how to save lives in Facebook

Filed Under: geolocation, mobile, Social Media Tagged With: 911, 999, Facebook, first response, good samaritans, National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, Social Media, social Web, suicide prevention

How the Net industry can help get us all to Online Safety 3.0

December 21, 2010 By Anne Leave a Comment

This is great, an early sign of the Internet industry's piece of OS 3.0: what the popular teen social site MyYearbook.com is doing for Reachout.com, a nonprofit support and suicide-prevention site for teens on the social Web (it now has a US base too, but since its start in Australia, that country "has seen a 56% reduction in youth suicide rates," the site says). Here's how Reach Out describes … [Read more...] about How the Net industry can help get us all to Online Safety 3.0

Filed Under: Social Media, social networking Tagged With: ConnectSafely, helpline, moderators, multiplayer online games, myYearbook, Online Safety 3.0, reachout.com, social networking, suicide prevention, virtual worlds

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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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