Cyberbullying

Mike Tully on January 30th, 2012

Two Farwell parents have said they are concerned over incidents of bullying at the high school recently. Heather Smith (formerly Pardo) said her 17 year-old son was involved in and injured in a fight January 18. “He ended up being taken to the hospital in an ambulance,” she said. “He was assaulted by a 15 [...]

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Mike Tully on January 30th, 2012

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (KTHV) — KFSM reports that three students were taken into custody in a Bentonville cyber bullying case. Police say that they are connected to an explicit Twitter account under the handle @BurnBook10. KFSM reports that the three taken into custody today were all females, including two 16-year-olds and one 17-year-old. Police say they’re [...]

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Mike Tully on January 23rd, 2012

WITH her coordinated zebra-striped scarf, tights and arm warmers (arm warmers?), spiky out-to-there hat and pierced tongue, 34-year-old Danah Boyd provides an electric Gen Y contrast to the staid gray lobby of Microsoft Research in Cambridge, Mass., which she enters in a flurry of animated conversation, Elmo-decorated iPhone in hand. In a juxtaposition that causes [...]

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Mike Tully on January 22nd, 2012

There are plenty of reasons to feel down in today’s fast-paced, hectic world, and you wouldn’t think that the world’s most popular social networking site would be one of them. But that’s exactly what a new study by Utah Valley University has found. According to the study,  Facebook is making us sad. Why? It’s all [...]

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Mike Tully on January 17th, 2012

THE United States Supreme Court has declined to take two cases involving three separate incidents involving free speech protection for public school students on the internet. In all three cases students were punished for posting obscene and derogatory information on students or school officials by using their home computers. MORE  >>>

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Mike Tully on December 15th, 2011

American singer Miley Cyrus is urging Twitter users to stop using the microblogging service to bully and tease other people from behind a screen. She tweeted, “I’m so sorry @mrssosbourne and @MissKellyO for the abusive tweet from @Drealaloca I don’t think it’s right for people to use twitter”…”to abuse and harass others. Just cause your [...]

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Mike Tully on December 13th, 2011

(From cyberbullying us.  – Mike) One of the Internet’s latest privacy controversies surrounds the rapidly-growing web site Isanyoneup.com.  The site, which launched in late 2010, is essentially a hybrid of social media and amateur pornography – described by some media outlets as a blog for “Revenge Porn.” The blog features thousands of posts containing extremely [...]

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Mike Tully on December 13th, 2011

Facebook is making it easier for people who express suicidal thoughts on the social networking site to get help. A program launching December 13th enables users to instantly connect with a crisis counselor through Facebook’s “chat” messaging system. MORE  >>>

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Mike Tully on December 11th, 2011

This story also illustrates why it is also important to have a diverse employee group, including different generations. Our publics and target audiences today are more fragmented than ever before. One size doesn’t fit all and likely will fail as a communications strategy. We need a robust mix of personal, digital, and experiential communications, backed [...]

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Mike Tully on December 2nd, 2011

Sylvain Gaudreault, the Parti Québécois MNA for Jonquière riding, wants Facebook to block subscribers who use the social-networking site for cyberbullying. “It is important to control social networks,” Gaudreault said Thursday, adding that France is doing so already. He called on Education Minister Line Beauchamp to intervene with Facebook, and proposed that school boards take [...]

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