Cyber+Bullying

I was watching NBC Nightly News a kid who was involved in the "It gets better project" and was a victim of cyber bullying recently took his own life. Here is the link to thee NBC news story. I posted it up here so I did not mess up the outline below. http://digitallife.today.com/_news/2011/09/21/7879728-teen-contributor-to-it-gets-better-project-takes-his-own-life

Hi, this is Nina! I'm the group moderator for cyber bullying. Hopefully I set this page up correctly, and we can start sharing ideas asap!

Hey Everyone! This is Sytiva, the Thematic Finder for cyber bullying. I was looking over some websites and videos about the topic, and thought I'd put down some themes I though were important to the topic so that we can start discussing them. Here is what I came up with:
 * What is Cyber Bullying?
 * What forms of technology are being used to Cyber Bully?
 * How to stop it, and what schools are doing to prevent it.
 * What can WE do?
 * Who is affected by this?
 * Raising Awareness (In Schools Specifically) and using technology to spread awareness.

These are just a few ideas that I came up with. Feel free to add your thoughts to this list!


 * Sytiva, all those ideas sound great to me! I definitely think the raising awareness topic is important -- how to recognize cyber bullying -- because I think it really brings together all the other topics you've mentioned. Were there any specific videos you found that were really informational? --Nina**

Amy-- for starters, that has got to be one of the saddest things I've ever heard :( What an awful thing for someone to do, and that mother is a psycho. Personal beliefs of the situation aside, I def. think including news clips is a great idea.. also, putting in the newest school legislation is great too. I've never used Lexus Nexus before but we can look over all that stuff when we meet tomorrow! see you bright and early!! -- Nina
 * Hi This is Amy. I just figured out this page existed. I think those are all good ideas. I also think that since we are bound by professional standards we need to include new laws concerning the issue. I know that NJ has rolled out some strict laws concerning this and I am sure there are others as well. Do you know how to use Lexus Nexus to find them? (This website also has legislation that is being considered as well) If not I do.**
 * Hi this is Amy. What about actually incorparating real news clips into our film clips? The case from Rutgers was a real cyber bullying case that resulted in suicide. It made alot of the national newscasts. Also there was national news case a few years back where a group of HS students and one of their mothers made a fake facebook page and pretended to be a boy that a girl liked. When the girl went to talk to the guy she found out it was a big hoax and killed herself. The mother who made the facebook page was actually charged with her death.**

Cyber bullying cae- mother who created fictious facebook: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/woman-found-guilty-in-cyberbully-case-1036877.html

stopcyberbullying.org Often, people who are victims are also bullies. Before you feel too bad for yourself, take the quiz below to find if you, too, are part of the cyberbullying problem! Rate yourself on the following point scale according to if, and how many times, you have done the below activities. Give yourself 0 points if you’ve never done it, 1 point if you have done it 1 or 2 times, 2 points if you have done it 3-5 times, 3 points if you have done it more than 5 times. ___Signed on with someone else’s screen name to gather info?__ _Sent an e-mail or online greeting card from someone’s account? ___Impersonated someone over IM or online?__ _Teased or frightened someone over IM? ___Not told someone who you really are online, telling them to “guess”?__ _Forwarded a private IM conversation or e-mail without the permission of the other person? ___Changed your profile or away message designed to embarrass or frighten someone?__ _Posted pictures or information about someone on a Web site without their consent? ___Created an Internet poll, either over IM or on a Web site, about someone without their consent?__ _Used information found online to follow, tease, embarrass or harass someone in person? ___Sent rude or scary things to someone, even if you were just joking?__ _Used bad language online? ___Signed someone else up for something online without their permission?__ _Used an IM or e-mail address that looked like someone else’s? ___Used someone else’s password for any reason without their permission?__ _Hacked into someone else’s computer or sent a virus or Trojan horse to them? ___Insulted someone in an interactive game room?__ _Posted rude things or lies about someone online? ___Voted at an online bashing poll or posted to a guestbook saying rude or mean things? 0 – 5 Points: Cyber Saint Congratulations! You’re a cyber saint! Your online behavior is exemplary! Keep up the good work! 6-10 Points: Cyber Risky Well, you’re not perfect, but few people are. Chances are you haven’t done anything terrible and were just having fun, but try not to repeat your behaviors, since they are all offenses. Keep in mind the pain that your fun might be causing others! 11-18 Points: Cyber Sinner Your online behavior needs to be improved! You have done way too many cyber no-no’s! Keep in mind that these practices are dangerous, wrong, and punishable and try to be clean up that cyber record! More than 18: Cyber Bully Put on the brakes and turn that PC/MAC/text-messaging device around! You are headed in a very bad direction. You qualify, without doubt, as a cyberbully. You need to sign off and think about where that little mouse of yours has been clicking before serious trouble results for you and/or your victim(s), if it hasn’t happened already!
 * Are you a cyberbully?**
 * Have you ever...**
 * Now calculate your total score:**

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=rTYc0C1VpC0 <- This is a great example because it doesnt say LGBT throughout the whole thing, its just saying to be yourself, bullying is bad etc. i figured we could start with this and then maybe at the end we could make our own it gets better video? -Dakota

Haverford school district Ardmore, PA http://mainlinemedianews.com/articles/2011/09/14/main_line_times/news/doc4e712b0d250c6265858471.txt

http://www.rachelsimmons.com/ <-- wrote odd girl out http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/28/style/28bully.html

Rutgers University Student http://healthland.time.com/2010/10/01/cyberbullying-homophobia-tyler-clementis-death-highlights-online-lawlessness/print/

Mass DA targets cyberbullying http://www.itemlive.com/articles/2011/09/12/news/news03.txt

Knife fight result of cyber bullying http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/Student_Brings_Knife_To_School_After_Facebook_Fight_129854703.html?ref=703

CA law http://tigernewspaper.com/wordpress/?p=5700

Health tip: Signs of bullying http://www.redding.com/news/2011/sep/14/health-tip-know-the-signs-of-bullying/

ME adress bullying http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article/172057/314/Police-doctors-address-cyber-bullying

Stand up to bullying http://www.marketwatch.com/story/common-sense-media-launches-national-campaign-to-help-kids-stand-up-not-stand-by-to-cyberbullying-2011-09-12

OUTLINE: --quiz on cyber bullying --def of cyber bullying --cyber bullying examples --example movie clips --cyber bullying legislation --prevention --"it gets better" --what this means for your classroom/teacher tips

ohio targets bullying http://www.coshoctontribune.com/article/20110904/NEWS01/109040301

CT targets bullying http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/wiltonbulletin/news/localnews/102794-school-bullying-is-officially-on-notice-.html

Vigilance as only answer to cyber bullying- Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/opinion/outlook/article/Froma-Harrop-Vigilance-is-only-defense-to-1605386.php

EU pact http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/02/10/internet-eu-bullying-idUSLA36235620090210

UK fines parents over cyber bullying http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-397555/Plan-fine-parents-cyber-bullies.html

Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) No place to hide from cyber bullying.- highlights the problem as more than just an american problem http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/18/1097951601988.html

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=Would you ladies still like to meet up tomorrow after class?-- Nina﻿= Yes!- Amy. Also MU Library does not have Lexis Nexis Congressional so I went to the almost next best thing which was the Congressional Quarterly Database. I found two articles: 1 on the effects of bullying and one on cyber bullying. I found a government document about cyber bullying but have not been able to look at it yet. Our library does not have it. Its a pdf - i requested it through ILL so hopefully it will come to me in time.

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==Okay team, since we're presenting on Thursday it's probaly best to put up a final outline of how our lesson is going to go... it's almost exactly like the other one that we made last week but with a few teeny tiny adjustments. Like we discussed in class today, if everyone could compile/organize the resources they found and post them here by Wednesday night I can put them all together in an outline for the class (as opposed to them attempting to figure out the jumbled up sources we currently have on this page) :) okay, here's the outline (and if you want to make adjustments please feel free!! )== ==As far as the quiz goes, I can print out a copy for each person in the class, that way they have something in front of them to take notes on/look at (Dakota, Corinne and I thought that'd probably be a good idea). Everything else is pretty self-explanitory I think... but as always comments/adjustments are always welcome :) see you Thursday!! - Nina==
 * ==hand out quiz/give time to complete quiz==
 * ==review the definition of cyber bullying==
 * ==log on to the ficticious cyber bully website and complete the activity==
 * ==give examples of cyber bullying (real life and general examples)==
 * ==review the legal issues on cyber bullying/ online harrassment==
 * ==discuss prevention/awareness==
 * ==show video==
 * ==teacher tips for handling cyber bullying==
 * ==complete quiz==


 * Hey, so I posted the definition of cyberbullying at the bottom but I was thinking that after the quiz we could kick it off with asking everyone what they think cyberbullying is (as part of the definition) like quickly ask everyone and put the words on the board to get their minds going and then continue to go over the definition so that it is more like a lesson rather than presentation (: what do you think? -Corinne**

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Here are a few of the cases I will be talking about in class, as well as general examples of why cyberbullying can be - Sytiva

Cyber bullying can take many forms, but here are some of the more common ones from stopcyberbullying.org.

1. Instant Messaging/Text Messaging Harassment 2. Stealing Passwords 3. Blogs 4. Web Sites (Facebook, MySpace, Twitter) 5. Sending Pictures through E-mail and Cell Phones 6. Internet Polling 7. Interactive Gaming 8. Sending Malicious Code 9. Sending Porn and Other Junk E-Mail and IMs 10. Impersonation

A few statistics from bullying statistics.org

Bully victims are between 2 to 9 times more likely to consider suicide than non-victims, according to studies by Yale University. 10 to 14 year old girls may be at even higher risk for suicide. (Mean Girls?) According to statistics reported by ABC news, nearly 30 percent of students are either bullies or victimes of bullying, and 160,000 kids stay home from schoole every day because of fear of bullying.

Unfortunately, most of the cases of cyberbullying that make the news and are heard about are the ones that end tragically with the student being bullied taking their own lives.

Phoebe Prince – 2010 Prince was bullied by nine classmate both through the internet and in school. Although the students were able to reach her in school, this was said about her case of cyberbullying: “Bullying is not a new phenomenon, but the Internet gives bullies the ability to continually humiliate their victim and amplify their actions beyond a school’s borders.” (http://internetsafety.trendmicro.com/phoebe-prince-tragic-case-of-cyberbullying) Prince took her own like on January 14, 2010, as a direct result of the bullying, and the students charged with bullying continued to bully her after her death on social media sites.

Megan Meier – 2006 Hanged herself on Oct. 17. 2006 as a result of cyberbullying through MySpace. In this case, Meier was contacted by who she thought was a boy named Josh Evans, but the account was actually linked to Lori Drew, a mother of a friend of Meier’s, who had been sending her the messages. After a few weeks of talking, “Josh Evans” (Drew) started saying malicious things to Meier, such as “The world would be a better place without you”. Drew was aquitted of all charges in Meier’s death.

Tyler Clementi - 2010 Clementi, a Rutgers University freshman, jumped off of the George Washington bridge after his roommate filmed him being intimate with another male. The roommate posted the video online, and Clementi commited suicide just days afterwards.

Both students were charged with invasion of privacy, and late acquitted.

Just recently, a week and a half ago, in Omaha, Nebraska, an 18-year old student, Chavon Jones, brought a knife to school for “protection” because of a fight she had with another student over facebook. Both students, were charged, with Jones being charged with 3rd degree assault and carrying a concealed weapon.

Here is the bit on the legal issues of cyber bullying- Amy Cyber bullying- Legal issues- The Independent UK- November 27, 2008 1st legal case to deal with cyber bullying. Next door neighbor poses as a 16 year old teen boy and befriends a depressed 13 yr. old girl and taunts her– girl eventually commits suicide. Neighbor charged with 7 counts- using a computer without authorization (3 counts) - he made a fake MySpace page, 3 felony charges of deliberately inflicting emotional distress and 1 charge in connection with the girl’s suicide. Only found guilty of the first three counts. Each of the three misdemeanors carried a 1 year sentence and up to $100,000 in fines. Had she been convicted of the felony counts she could have gotten up to 20 years for each count. The women had sought to use the MySpace account to find out if the victim was talking trash about her daughter. She became a boy so that she could show the victims flirtatious messages to school to embarrass her. The defendant also told the victim “the world would be a better place" without her. On the day of the suicide, the victim’s mother found her crying. The victim said “"Josh" and two girls were "saying mean things about her". Later that day she killed herself. St the time there was no state law for cyber bullying so the charges we brought in federal court.

Daily item, Lynn MA Sept 12, 2011 DA has said that reports to his office of cyber bullying are off the charts. There have been hundreds of complaints. Law enforcement, attorneys and schools are working to combat this epidemic of cyber bullying.

Tiger media Online, Pasadena CA Sept 13, 2011 CA state law was on bullying was expanded to include cyber bullying. Students will first be suspended or expulsion. Depending on the seriousness charges could be filed. Cyber bullying includes excessive text messaging, threats, sexting, and more. For example, if a high school student sexts a student an inappropriate picture, the sender is subject to suspension and possible expulsion, not to mention being listed as a registered sex offender. This law is an expanded section of the Interagency School Safety Demonstration Act of 1985, which states that bullying of all sorts is not tolerated in the school environment. The law was originally intended for cyber bullying within Facebook only, but was extended due to technological advances.

WCSH6.com Bangor, ME Sept 8, 2011 Police and schools seek to combat cyber bullying- To help students feel more comfortable reporting cyber bullying, the Bangor Police Department is trying something new. Detective Myron Warner, the Resource Officer for the Bangor School District, has set up a Facebook page where students, teachers, and parents can message him and report bullying. He put this up in hopes [that people] would communicate with him

Coshocton Tribune, OH, September 4, 2011 Proposed legislation to make it mandatory for schools to implement cyber bullying programs and to monitor students who participate in it. The School Day and [|Security] and Anti-Bullying Act will require each school district in the state to review its anti-bullying policy with students, parents and teachers -- and the consequences -- twice per year. It is intended to bring to the forefront to parents and others the dangers of cyber bullying and make them more aware, both as the parent of a victim or an offender.

Wilton Bulletin, CT September 12, 2011 “An Act Concerning the Strengthening of School Bullying Laws,” last spring. It is due to go into effect this school year. Under the prior law, “bullying” was defined as overt acts by one or more student that are: 1). Directed at another student; 2). Intended to ridicule, humiliate or intimidate; and 3). Repeated more than once against any student during the school year. The new legislation, entitled SB 1138, expands the definition to embrace cyber-enabled mean behavior, building on the old definition to include: 1). Repeated written, oral, and electronic communications by one or more students directed at another student; 2). Physical acts and gestures that cause physical or emotional harm or damage property; put the student in fear of harm or property damage; create a hostile environment for the student; infringe on the student’s rights; or substantially disrupt the education process. According to the legislative research office’s analysis of the bill, the new definition of bullying explicitly includes conduct that targets a student for their “race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression; socioeconomic or academic status; physical appearance; or mental, physical, developmental, or sensory disability.” The bill makes school principals responsible for investigating or designating someone to investigate and address bullying whether it occurs in or out of school. It also requires all employees to report repeated bullying incidents. Schools are also required to come up with “safe school climate plans” that include deadlines for reporting, investigating and notifying parents and prohibiting retaliation against those who report bullies. It even requires school officials to notify the police when they believe the bullying constitutes a crime. CQ Researcher May 2008 2008- Myspace says it will take steps to protect children from online abusers. Eight FL teens are arrested for assault because of an attack on another student that they posted online. Officials in NJ announce an investigation of a college campus gossip site. In April the Florida Senate met to discuss cyber bullying prompted by a suicide by a boy who has cyber bullied for 2 years. CQ Researcher Dec 2010 As of Dec 2010 43 states have laws against bullying. 30 of them include electronic harassment. PA is included in these 30 states. 2000s timeline for internet and cyber bullying- 2002- myspace and linked in are launches 2004- Facebook is launched 2006- Megan Meir commits suicide 2009- Facebook user upload 220 M photos a week 2010- Facebook has 500 M users In Aug the education department holds it first federal conference on bullying. In October they warn schools that student misconduct can trigger federal anti discrimination laws. Suicides of Phoebe Prince in MA and Tyler Clementi in NJ spur Massachusetts and NJ to pass new anti bullying laws.

Overseas Laws Reuters February 10, 2009 EU pact with social networking cites to try and curb cyber bullying. Daily Mail, UK July 25, 2006 UK will fine parents whose children use electronic devices to bully. Bullies themselves could be prosecuted under the malicious communications law and spend up to 6 months in jail. Schools will monitor all emails sent on school computers or as part of a school activity. McClatchy Triune News Service, OH July 6, 2010 South Korean Cyber Bullies could face $30,000 in fines and 3 years in jail

For the definition of cyberbullying, here are some of the things I plan on talking about: "Cyberbullying" is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. It has to have a minor on both sides, or at least have been instigated by a minor against another minor. Once adults become involved, it is plain and simple cyber-harassment or cyberstalking. Adult cyber-harassment or cyberstalking is NEVER called cyberbullying."--> i want to summarize this point so that everyone has an idea of what is cyberbullying and what isn't. http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/what_is_cyberbullying_exactly.html

here is the link to the cyber bullying journal... i took what people were saying around the internet as well as what i remember from high school

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