Cyber+Bullying+(BSZ)

Cyber Bullying Resources **Definition:** **Cyber-bullying** is the use of the Internet and related technologies to harm other people, in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner. As it has become more common in society, particularly among young people, legislation and awareness campaigns have arisen to combat it. **An Overview:** Cyberbullying simply refers to the act of bullying online. This type of bullying can consist of any of the following actions committed by an individual or group to another individual or group:
 * Threats of violence
 * Hate speech
 * Harassment
 * Peer pressure
 * Bribery
 * Psychological abuse
 * Extortion

Further, these offenses are often committed by people impersonating someone else, anonymously, or under the guise of a group, making accountability and preventability difficult. The definition of cyberbullying has broadened over the years since it has expanded to include any number of internet connected devices, web sites, behaviors, victims, and victimizers. For example, in its earliest incarnations, cyberbullying mostly consisted of one person or small group of people attacking each other via an internet-enabled desktop computer. These earlier offenses, while certainly harmful, had some limitations in the amount of damage they could cause because:
 * Most computer usage was still limited to desktop computers
 * Broadband internet connectivity was more limited
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Most mobile devices were not equipped with cameras and/or data services
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Social Networks were not mainstream

<span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Given these constraints, you did not hear about it as much as it was generally less frequent, and was usually confined to smaller groups. <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Today, things are different. Most homes and schools have broadband connectivity, portable Internet enabled computers and devices prevail, most mobile phones have photo, video, and data services, and socializing online has long hit mainstream. Given the pervasiveness and social acceptance of these technologies, it has become very easy for one person to not only capture and share information easily, but for that information to spread almost instantly.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**An Intro To Cyber-Bullying** media type="youtube" key="D7uyScK3-CU?version=3" height="315" width="560"

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Georgia,serif;">**Resource List:** > >>>>>> > <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;"> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This website also offers insight on what exactly cyber bullying is and how it can be prevented. This site is geared more towards the parents, trying to help them gage when it is appropriate to step in as a parent and what do about cyber bullying. >> >> <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This blog contains many different links to help inform educators what to do and how to deal with cyber bullying. Should student phones be taken? How can we control how students are acting outside of the classroom? How much of this is an educators responsiblity? The answer to these questions and many more can be found on this blog, or on related links from this blog.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Websites
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|StopCyberBullying]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This website gives insight into what cyber bullying is and how it works. It also gives insight on prevention tips, for parents and educators. The 'take action' portion of this site offers good tips on how to educate our children against becoming cyber bullies, and what to do should they encounter one. Rules such as "Take 5!" can aid in students over all development, not just ensuring they do not become cyber bullies.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Kids Health Cyber Bullying Information]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[[image:edts523naz/wired.jpg width="226" height="87" caption="Wired Safety's volunteers" link="http://wiredsafety.org/"]][|Wired Safety] <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Georgia,serif; font-size: small;"> WiredSafety’s volunteers have been doing this since right after the Web was launched. For more than 16 years we have been helping people who need our help online. This site offers many different resources, not just about cyberbullying but other kinds of abuse on the internet.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Say it 2 My Face Campaign] The campaign encourages everyone to think about what they type, what they post, and what they spread online. If you would not ‘say it to my face,’ then you shouldn’t post it online. Using purple, the color of “good judgment,” attention is drawn to the power of our hands. Cyberbullying is literally at our fingertips. It is hands on the keyboard that cause the detrimental, and often devastating effects of cyberbullying.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Blogs
 * [[image:edts523naz/CB_Research.jpg width="99" height="116"]][|Cyber Bullying Research Center Blog]


 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Cyberbullying and Blogs] This blog post is the story of an adult woman who shares her experience with cyberbullying and cyberstalking pertaining to her blogs and tweets. The post gives the 23 examples of bullying and her responses. This post is interesting, that cyberbullying is not just affecting the younger generations.

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 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Books (Listed on Amazon.com)
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Cyber Bullying: Bullying in the Digital Age]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cyber bullying has become more prevalent through the use of e-mail, instant messages, chat rooms, and other digital messaging systems. It brings with it unique challenges. //Cyber Bullying// provides the most current and essential information on the nature and prevalence of this epidemic, providing educators, parents, psychologists and policy-makers with critical prevention techniques and strategies for effectively addressing electronic bullying. This book also examines the role of anonymity in electronic bullying
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Teen Cyberbullying Investigated: Where do your Rights End and Consequences Begin?]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">How do teens know when they might be “one click away from the clink”? In //Teen Cyberbullying Investigated//, Judge Tom Jacobs presents a powerful collection of landmark court cases involving teens and charges of cyberbullying, which includes: sending insulting or threatening emails, text, or instant messages directly to someone; spreading hateful comments about someone through emails, blogs, or chat rooms; stealing passwords and sending out threatening messages using a false identity; and building a Web site to target specific people. With an ever-increasing number of serious cases of cyberbullying and school violence, this book is needed more urgently than ever.

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 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This book spends time foucsing on how technology can facilitate or magnify bullying behavior. It also provides proactive strategies, current research, and legal rulings to protect students and children from cyberbullying.
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|Confronting Cyber-Bullying: What Schools Need to Know to Control Misconduct and Avoid Legal Consequences]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">This book is directed to academics, educators, and government policy-makers who are concerned about addressing emerging cyber-bullying and anti-authority student expressions through the use of cell phone and Internet technologies. There is a current policy vacuum relating to the extent of educators' legal responsibilities to intervene when such expression takes place outside of school hours and school grounds on home computers and personal cell phones. Students, teachers, and school officials are often targets of such expression. The author analyzes government and school responses by reviewing positivist paradigms.
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">Movies
 * <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: Georgia,serif;">[|ABC Family-Cyberbully-The Movie]
 * <span style="font-family: Georgia,serif;">Cyberbully follows Taylor Hillridge (Emily Osment), a teenage girl who falls victim to online bullying, and the cost it takes on her as well as her friends and family. Taylor is a pretty seventeen-year-old student dealing with her parents' recent divorce and painfully aware of her lower social status in high school. When her mom gives her a computer for her birthday, Taylor is excited by the prospect of going online to meet new friends without her mother always looking over her shoulder. However, Taylor soon finds herself the victim of betrayal and bullying while visiting a popular social website. Obsessed with the damaging posts, she begins to withdraw from her family and friends, including her life-long best friend, Samantha Caldone (Kay Panabaker). Tormented and afraid to face her peers at school, Taylor is pushed to an extreme breaking point. It is only after this life-changing event that Taylor learns that she is not alone – meeting other teens, including a classmate, who have had similar experiences. Taylor's mom, Kris (Kelly Rowan), reels from the incident and takes on the school system and state legislation to help prevent others from going through the same harrowing ordeal as her daughter.