From the Pew, more on cyber-bullying:
Teens, kindness and cruelty on social network sites
by Amanda Lenhart, Mary Madden, Aaron Smith, Kristen Purcell, Kathryn Zickuhr, Lee Rainie
http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Teens-and-social-media.aspx
Nov 9, 2011
Social media use has become so pervasive in the lives of American teens that having a presence on a social network site is almost synonymous with being online. Fully 95% of all teens ages 12-17 are now online and 80% of those online teens are users of social media sites. Many log on daily to their social network pages and these have become spaces where much of the social activity of teen life is echoed and amplified—in both good and bad ways. Read more…
Sections include:
- Part 1 » Teens and social networks
- Part 2 » Social media and digital citizenship: What teens experience and how they behave on social network sites
- Part 3 » Privacy and safety issues
- Part 4 » The role of parents in digital safekeeping and advice-giving
- Part 5 » Parents and online social spaces: Tech tool ownership and attitudes towards social media“
9 in 10 Teens Have Witnessed Bullying on Social Networks [STUDY]
“”Teenagers can be mean. But a recent survey suggests that they’re no more so on social networks than they are in real life. In a survey of 12- to 17-year-olds released by the Pew Research Center on Wednesday, 12% of teenagers reported being bullied in person sometime in the last year, compared to 8% who reported being bullied online. Most of the teenagers surveyed (69%) said that their peers are “mostly kind” to each other on social networking sites.”
Stephen
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