Cyber-bullying : issues and solutions for the school, the classroom and the home /
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| Author / Creator: | Shariff, Shaheen. |
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| Imprint: | London ; New York : Routledge, 2008. |
| Description: | xix, 299 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6834919 |
Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Cyberspace: battleground or opportunity?
- Introduction
- Battles in cyberspace
- Worthy weapons?
- What drives this 'battle'?
- Peer-to-peer cyber-bullying
- Anti-authority cyber-expression
- 'Raveger, Raveger'
- 2. Profile of traditional and cyber-bullying
- What is bullying?
- The etymology of bullying
- Bullying or teasing?
- General characteristics
- Perpetrators and targets
- Types of bullying
- Physical bullying
- Psychological bullying
- Changing roles
- Effects of bullying
- Bullying today
- Definitions of cyber-bullying
- Characteristics of cyber-bullying
- Anonymity
- An infinite audience
- Prevalent sexual and homophic harassment
- Permanence of expression
- MySpace, Facebook and YouTube
- Online social communications tools
- Online sexual discrimination
- Female victims
- Female perpetrators
- Male targets and perpetrators
- Intersecting forms of discrimination
- The international context
- 3. A transnational snapshot
- Introduction
- Context and analysis
- Japan
- Technology use: computers
- Technology use: mobile cellular phones
- Cyber-bullying among Japanese peers
- Cultural considerations
- Ijime and netto-ijime
- Gakko ura saito: mobile-bullying
- Ijime-jisatsu (suicide linked to ijime)
- South Korea
- Singapore
- China
- Concerns about cyber-bullying
- Chinese cases related to cyber-bullying
- Thailand
- India
- United Kingdom
- Access to the Internet
- Nature of Internet use
- Inequalities and the digital divide
- Education, learning and literacy
- Communication
- Participation
- Risks of online communication
- Regulating the Internet at home
- Happy slapping
- United States
- Bullying happens more often offline
- Gender differences
- The online rumour mill
- Threats against older girls
- Modified photographs
- Racial differences
- Why teens engage in cyber-bullying
- Homophobia
- Canada
- Adult perceptions
- Opinions about cyber-bullying
- Australia
- New Zealand
- Breaking news
- US controversy: Mrs Drew and Megan
- New law in Pakistan
- 4. The role of gender: biological and environmental influences
- Introduction
- Socialization in the home
- The biology of bullying
- Environmental influences
- Gender socialization in the home
- Female gender roles
- Male gender roles
- How media frames reality
- Media framing of gender roles
- Cyber-news on girls
- Helpless online girls
- She brought it on herself
- Authority figures
- Clueless parents
- Heroic policemen
- Civil liberties for perpetrators
- 5. Controlling kids' spaces
- Introduction
- Supervising kids' spaces
- Confusing and disengaging children
- Enter the digital divide
- Kids' perspectives - their own private space
- Adult mindsets and the digital disconnect
- Levelling the plane of authority and power
- Legal and policy responses: a few examples
- European Union
- Council of Europe
- Council of Europe draft convention on cyber crime
- European Commission (EU): Europe's information society: public consultation on safer Internet and online technologies for children
- Safer Internet plus programme
- Legislation in France
- British responses
- Don't suffer in silence web site
- Criminology perspectives
- Deleting Online Predators Act (2006 - H.R.5319 - 'DOPA')
- Educational use
- Library support for online education
- Canadian responses
- Conclusion
- 6. Stakeholder power
- Introduction
- Knowledge control
- Influential stakeholders
- Teachers and their unions
- Why the sudden urgency?
- A wall of defence
- School reputation or support of victims?
- Tacit condoning or peer-to-peer bullying
- Selection ... or censorship?
- Lost parenting opportunities
- Confused messages: furious father
- Confused messages: concerned mother
- Parental prerogative in schools
- Special interest groups
- Government influence
- School boards
- Media as censor
- Cyber-victims - good students who get caught
- Cyber-criminals: police as hero
- Media framing of global issues
- Courts as censors
- 7. Balancing free expression: privacy and safety in cyberspace
- Introduction
- Legal frameworks
- Tort law
- Cyber-libel: Canadian context
- Cyber-libel: American context
- Negligence, supervision and malpractice
- Tort law, supervision and risk
- Constitutional law: freedom of expression versus safety and privacy
- Constitutional considerations
- Expression as 'material and substantive disruption'
- Expression as 'disruption of basic educational mission'
- Nexus: computers as school property
- Student expression off-campus
- Human and civil rights jurisprudence: school environment
- Summary: legal standards for schools
- 8. Harmonious solutions
- Introduction
- Pragmatic and comprehensive solutions
- Legal literacy
- Practical solutions: online limitations
- Building proficiency at home
- Raising student awareness of censorship
- Critical legal literacy model for teacher education
- A concept map: positive school environments
- Levelling stakeholder hierarchies of power
- The stakeholder model
- Poisoned environment
- Step 1. Identify the stakeholders
- Step 2. Validate their claims
- Step 3. Critically weigh each claim against the others
- School board claims
- School administrator claims
- Teacher claims
- Parental claims
- Media priorities
- Step 4. Minimal impairment of rights
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- List of cases
- Index