With a vote set today in the state Senate, local lawmakers are lining up behind a bill to require schools to try to prevent bullying and develop plans for reporting and responding to the problem.
“Kids need to know that they can’t bully other kids,” said state Sen. Karen Spilka, D-Ashland. “This is a step that [...]
The prevalence of cyber-bullying and its psychological impact on non-heterosexual youth has been revealed in a new American study.
According to research carried out at Iowa State University, one out of every two lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender (LGBT) and allied youths are regular victims of “cyber-bullying,” which leads to psychological and emotional distress to victims even [...]
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Schools are typically on guard against students who bully by inflicting repeated violence on other students. But technology has given rise to a relatively new form of bullying which inflicts emotional harm in a stealth manner, working through Web sites, chat rooms, e-mail, cell phones and instant messaging.
And according to a new national study by [...]
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LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The Internet was built on freedom of expression. Society wants someone held accountable when that freedom is abused. And major Internet companies like Google and Facebook are finding themselves caught between those ideals.
Although Google, Facebook and their rivals have enjoyed a relatively “safe harbor” from prosecution over user-generated content in the [...]
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(NOTE: This links to an abstract of a study published in the Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice. The study itself is not yet available for free. – Mike)
Agnew’s general strain theory (GST) has received significant empirical attention, but important issues remain unresolved. This study addresses three such issues. First, the authors examine the effects of [...]
SCHOOLS are asking police to investigate serious student cyber bullying amid increasing complaints from parents about their children receiving hate messages online.
One of Australia’s top girls’ schools has reported “several episodes of ongoing harassment” to police and pleaded with parents to monitor their daughters’ online activity.
Riverside Girls High School in Sydney’s north has told families [...]
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The suburban Philadelphia teenager who has accused his high school of spying on him in his home using the camera in his school-issued laptop called on school district officials to hand over copies of all photographs snapped by students’ MacBooks.
“Our counsel has requested immediate access to all webcam pictures and screenshots to determine whether the [...]
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By Robert Colvile
Published: 7:57AM GMT 26 Feb 2010
On September 8 2006, a new item was added to Google Video in Italy. It showed an autistic schoolboy in Turin being abused, physically and verbally, by his classmates. On Wednesday, three executives from Google – who had never worked in Italy, or had any idea of the [...]
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Hermitage School Board on Tuesday authorized appealing an appellate court’s decision in the Justin Layshock case.
Layshock was a Hickory High School student suspended for creating an unflattering profile of his then principal, Eric Trosch, in December 2005 on the MySpace social networking Web site.
Layshock and his parents, Donald and Cheryl, represented by the American Civil [...]
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(NOTE: This is a horrendous decision that could have international ramifications that threaten free expression on the Internet. Hopefully the conviction will be overturned on appeal. It’s impossible to overstate the impact and danger of this decision! – Mike)
An Italian court has convicted three Google executives in a trial over a video showing an autistic [...]
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