It feels like we’ve got a natural focus on child Internet safety issues this week. We celebrate Internet Watch Foundation Awareness Day (more on that on Wednesday) and it’s also National Anti-Bullying Week in the US, as well as being International Anti-Bullying Month worldwide. To mark this, Facebook have stepped up their safety measures with a new anti-bullying [...]
Norman Rockwell’s “Girl in the Mirror” Any community professional who has spent time online with minors will tell you swiftly it is not all text speech and Justin Bieber out there. According to a recent Pew Research Center report, 95% of teens ages 12 to 17 are online. Tweens and teens spend enormous amounts of [...]
Organised by the campaigning charity Beatbullying, The Big March 2012 is the world’s first virtual global march for children’s right to be safe. Tens of thousands of virtual marchers will cross the websites of the world’s biggest brands, and call on the United Nations to enshrine explicitly in the UN Convention for the Rights of [...]
Kameron Jacobsen 1996 – 2011 It’s good news, I guess. Today Facebook announced a new partnership with Time Warner, Inc to launch a campaign called Stop Bullying: Speak Up. Over the next few months they say they’ll be working with many of Time Warner’s companies in broadcast, print, online and social media to ignite a [...]
In case it passed you by, it was bullying prevention week last week in the US, with the not-inconsiderable combined political mass of Barack and Michelle Obama thrown behind the campaign as they hosted a live conference on the subject on March 10th. The conference included sessions and discussions on cyber-bullying, campus bullying and pioneering new [...]
Leading bullying prevention charity Beatbullying is joining forces with other leading children’s organisations as well as private sector companies, brands, media and celebrities to hold the world’s first ever virtual march on www.beatbullying.org/bigmarch. The Big March will be a digital first – a truly groundbreaking collaborative campaign hosted entirely online and culminating at No. 10 [...]
Have you heard of Formspring.me? It only came to my attention last week , but suddenly, in the way the internet does, I am tripping over articles about it. For those as yet blissfully unaware, Formspring.me, founded in Nov 2009 by survey company Formstack, is a site which enables questions to be posted to members, [...]
The latest version of NetFamilyNews.org’s newsletter has arrived in my inbox, and I was so blown away by this research into teen’s views on cyberbullying that I’m going to reproduce it wholesale, with thanks to Ann Collier of NetFamilyNews and to Dr. Patricia Agatston (school risk-prevention specialist and co-author of Cyber Bullying Prevention Curriculum for [...]
Ann Collier is a writer and journalist and editor of NetFamilyNews.org, whose excellent safety tips for tweens and teens I’ve quoted on this blog before. Another couple of articles from her this month have caught my eye. Clicks and cliques: *Really* meaty advice for parents on cyberbullying is a lengthy, detailed account of Annie Fox’s [...]
Thanks again to Amy Jussel for publishing Part 3 in her interview series with us on Dec 3rd. We’re republishing a part of her blog here, but please see the post in full on Shaping Youth as we’ve had to omit a lot for space reasons … Amy Jussel, Shaping Youth: How does eModeration handle [...]