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Cyberbullying Fact Sheet: Identification, Prevention, and Response
UPDATED for 2023! This detailed guide is a nine-page summary – filled with as much useful information as possible – to equip educators, parents, and other youth-serving adults to spot cyberbullying,...
View ArticleTakeaways from the Surgeon General’s Advisory on Social Media
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory earlier this year entitled “Social Media and Youth Mental Health.” In this public statement, Dr. Murthy summarizes the (limited and often...
View ArticleState Laws, Social Media Bans, and Youth: What Are We Doing?
There has been a flurry of activity related to new legislation intending to make social media and gaming platforms safer and more accountable to upholding expected standards of trust, security,...
View ArticleSocial Media, Youth, and New Legislation: The Most Critical Components
In my last piece, I discussed how some legislation in various US states has been proposed without careful consideration of the contributing factors of internalized and externalized harm among youth....
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Cyberbullying Continues to Rise among Youth in the United States
Here at the Cyberbullying Research Center, we routinely collect data from middle and high school students so that we can keep on top of what they are experiencing online. Over the last two decades, we...
View ArticleWhat To Do When Your Child Cyberbullies Others: Top Ten Tips for Parents
(For a formatted .pdf version of this article for distribution, click on the image above [or click here]). Spanish Translation Available Here Finding out that your child is mistreating others online...
View ArticleWhat To Do When Your Child is Cyberbullied: Top Ten Tips for Parents
(For a formatted .pdf version of this article for distribution, click on the image above [or click here]). Spanish Translation Available Here Discovering that your child is being cyberbullied is...
View ArticleTech Use/Abuse Prevention: Questions Parents Should Ask Their Children
Spanish Translation Available Here It is important to talk with youth about what they are doing and seeing online. Most of the time, they are using technology safely and responsibly, but sometimes...
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World Anti-Bullying Forum 2023!
It’s been over a month, but I still catch myself smiling when I think of the memories made at the 2023 World Anti-Bullying Forum (WABF). For those not familiar, WABF is an international forum and...
View ArticleBullying Beyond the Schoolyard: Preventing and Responding to Cyberbullying...
Technology keeps changing, and cyberbullying is as prominent as ever. It’s time to up your game. As social media apps, gaming platforms, and other online environments have given present more...
View ArticleWhen Your Mother is Your Cyberbully
Last winter when Sameer and I were writing the third edition of Bullying Beyond the Schoolyard (published last fall!), we spent quite a bit of time searching for unique examples of cyberbullying to...
View ArticleCyberbullying legislation and case law: Implications for school policy and...
This Fact Sheet provides a summary of important court cases and pending legislation that can help school administrators evaluate and improve their current cyberbullying policies and procedures....
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2023 Cyberbullying Data
This study surveyed a nationally-representative sample of 5,005 middle and high school students between the ages of 13 and 17 in the United States. Data were collected in May and June of 2023. Click...
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Summary of Our Cyberbullying Research (2007-2023)
At the Cyberbullying Research Center we have been collecting data from middle and high school students since 2002. We have surveyed more than 35,000 students from middle and high schools from across...
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Teens and AI: Virtual Girlfriend and Virtual Boyfriend Bots
A school counselor who works in a private school in California recently emailed me to ask for help as it relates to students and the misuse of specific AI bots. Her concerns, though, did not surround...
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Lessons Learned from Ten Generative AI Misuse Cases
Generative AI can contribute to a wide range of possible risks and harms that can affect the emotional and psychological well-being of others, their financial state of affairs, and even their...
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Digital Self-Harm: The Growing Problem You’ve Never Heard Of
Sameer and I first became aware of digital self-harm over a decade ago when we learned of the suicide of Hannah Smith. She was 14 years old when she ended her life after being mistreated online. The...
View ArticleAdolescent Digital Self-Harm Over Time: Prevalence and Perspectives
Digital self-harm, the anonymous online posting, sending, or otherwise sharing of hurtful content about oneself, has not received the same amount of scholarly scrutiny as other forms of self-directed...
View ArticleThe Nature and Extent of Youth Sextortion: Legal Implications and Directions...
Sextortion, the threatened dissemination of explicit, intimate, or embarrassing images of a sexual nature without consent, is an understudied problem. Despite a recent increase in reported incidents...
View ArticleResponding to Cyberbullying: Strategies for School Counselors
Technology has created many opportunities for students to be hurtful to each other in a variety of ways, and has made interpersonal peer conflict even more challenging for schools to deal with. This...
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