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Cyberbullying is not cantly concerning, yet instead of occurring just outside of legal bounds person, technologies and websites can now facilitate bullymanage, the ubiquitous naing from a distance for some ture of these medias means kids today. Cyber Bullying is not only occurring in the playground yet is no longer safe in the bedroom for many kids today, particularly those child being victimized. A number of reasons seem to make the context of cyber "Awareness and bullying much more contextual than
Cyberbullying is not cantly concerning, yet instead of occurring just outside of legal bounds person, technologies and websites can now facilitate bullymanage, the ubiquitous naing from a distance for some ture of these medias means kids today. Cyber Bullying is not only occurring in the playground yet is no longer safe in the bedroom for many kids today, particularly those child being victimized. A number of reasons seem to make the context of cyber "Awareness and bullying much more contextual than
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Cyberbullying is not cantly concerning, yet instead of occurring just outside of legal bounds person, technologies and websites can now facilitate bullymanage, the ubiquitous naing from a distance for some ture of these medias means kids today. Cyber Bullying is not only occurring in the playground yet is no longer safe in the bedroom for many kids today, particularly those child being victimized. A number of reasons seem to make the context of cyber "Awareness and bullying much more contextual than
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A WARENESS & E DUCATION P ROJECT Volume 1, Issue 2 | May, 2011 | Working in conjunction with AssistNZ Ltd
Cyber Bullying.. could it be the elephant in
New Zealand’s classroom’s?? “In 2008, 1 in 3 Kiwi High School With recent news head- kids.. And we need to re- Students reported to being cyber Plan of Attack: bullied” - James Ihaka, NZ Herald lines regularly covering the member, more than technol- • Launch a viral YouTube cam- topic of bullying in schools ogy– what we are really talk- to directly experience the paign, where by we get NZ and among youth, it is sur- ing about boils down to be pain inflicted on their victim. celebrities and public both to prising we do not address just another way for kids & The virtual invasion of the be recording themselves read script, edit the collection into the issue of “cyber-bullying” adults alike to communicate. home and spread of the tar- several advertising campaigns at all really, at least among geting that these technolo- for radio & television and then media anyway… Ongoing WHAT IS CYBER BULLY- gies allow is also signifi- pressure the media agency to ING? Cyber Bullying is not cantly concerning. provide air time while still reports have emphasized pushing the message on social and reinforced this apparent unlike normal bullying, yet media streams - “Be Nice ignorance , especially on the instead of occurring just in Often outside of legal bounds Online” (see over page) person, technologies & web- & difficult for the schools to Facilitate a workshop for par- behalves of many parents. • sites can now facilitate bully- manage, the ubiquitous na- ents around Auckland, starting ing from a distance for some ture of these medias means first at our local community One report stated that some- venue in Massey, we have a thing like 91% of kids, under kids. Technology now means that the refuge of ones bed- series of workshops planned the age of 18, had at some that bullying not only occurs room even, is no longer safe around Auckland to build the in the playground but after for kids today. Worst still, awareness & confidence of point or another been the victim parents & caregivers. Titled, of “cyberbullying”. Yet shock- school and even sometimes what appears to be the most “Parenting in a Digital World: ingly, only 11% of parents re- into the bedroom with the commonly reported concern Kids & Social Media”, our two ported to have ever heard the child being victimized. by many, particularly those hour workshop aims to shift the involved with the school, is focus & perception of parents term… In this day and age, it is from the technology to the fact not enough for a parent to ig- WHAT MAKES CYBER the obliviousness of the par- its just a new way that their nore or avoid BULLYING ANY DIFFER- ents about these issues in kids are talking. conversations ENT? There are a number many cases. • Standardizing and distributing of reasons which seem to workshops & course resources about behavior online is important to our ob- make the context of Cyber online when it “Awareness & jectives of all participants comes to their Bullying much more con- “Paying Forward” the lessons cerning than traditional con- Education are the & message from our work- cepts of bullies. Cyber bully- key preventions to shops with them. Further more “Bullied kids need to know that in-depth training may be done bullies are cowards & that what ing is hard to escape, it can online by participants if they also be anonymous & imper- cyber bullying” wish. goes around, comes around.“ Deborah Coddington, NZ Herald (10.4.11) sonal and bullies don't have Bullying.org • Providing an online support base and way for kids to con- nect with each other and share
Parenting in a Digital World: Kids & Social
what works and what doesn’t— using Facebook as they al- ready use it, we plan to de- velop an app (similar to re- Community courses will com- nity we operate, supporting sense hope to enable parents to feel cently released MTV app– mence this month, with the first of community growth. better equipped to protect their Over the line?) scheduled to be held on the kids in this digital 19th of May from 6.30pm— In these courses, we provide a a g e . Limited 8.30pm at Massey Community brief overview of the technologies spaces are avail- House, 385 Don Buck Rd. Tick- & assess the level of confidence & able, register online ets are priced at $25pp. We oper- experience of the parents on each to secure your ate on a “Pay It Forward” system, course, before exploring the com- place today .. we aim to provide participants not mon risks and best strategies for only materials through collaborate monitoring them in respectful & h t t p : / / with national providers of similar, appropriate ways. We will explore www.youtube.com/ the most common issues of cyber user/sweetassocial related or relevant content, such as NetSafe & “Cool Schools” and bullying, sexting, privacy and www.sweetassocialmedia.com WWW . SWEETSAS local businesses in each commu- downloads online and in the end, SOCIALMEDIA.COM WHAT CAN YOU DO… Whether you a parent trying to protect your kids, or an individual trying to protect your digital reputation, any concerted users should be have set up an “alert” service. These ser- vices are designed to “troll” the public scripts running on popular sites like Facebook & Twit- Helping Kiwi’s Navigate the Digital Migration ter and sends you email updates when certain search criteria come up on public and/or WE ARE LIVING IN A DIGITAL WORLD.. highly trafficked sights. If you have teenage children especially, this Teenagers are currently those who both use these technologies is most definitely advisable and should be most, unsurprisingly they are also the same ones who get them- done for both their full name and handle. We selves into the most trouble online. Often they hide any issues would even go so far as to suggest to some online from their parents for fear of having the use of technologies parents, that getting their children's help do- removed from them or in some cases fear of parent making the is- ing so in this process may in itself be benefi- sue “worse” (some parents have let it get to physical blows in front cial. Firstly due to asking your kids for tips or of their children over cyber bullying issues and what message are help online, despite what you may think, this we really sending then?). But when 98% of schools are connected is an example of good digital parenting– while and one fourth of babies have an online presence before they are you may not understand the technologies they born– we truly have got to the “digital native” generation. are engaging on regularly, it is sensible to at While the children have the better understanding of these tech- least check them out and to your child you will nologies, they aren’t equip with the emotional maturity to fathom be taking an interest in their lives. the consequences of these actions all together. If instead of doing Secondly, the concept of having only their cutting Kids off from technology when they get in trouble with it off, most public and contentious posts displayed to we need to be teaching them to be trust worthy with technology. their parents, we expect for many kids, might be all that is required before they make some of these critical errors in judgement that could “The more that we use potentially haunt them for life in some cases. taking the technology as a We like Social Mention & Google Alerts our- punishment, the less that selves, they are rather self explanatory but young people are likely to you can find a write up on our Facebook page. talk to us about what's going wrong” - Lee Chis- http://socialmention.com/alerts holm, Netsafe http://www.google.com/alerts
“Be Nice Online” Viral Campaign
Three Kiwi kids have about talking to their kids about things, its a matter of balance & taken their own lives technology. Especially when it we hope to get people talking follow ing b u l l yi n g comes to issues like cyber bully- about this by using a viral cam- online; Daniel Giles, ing & “sexting”. paign on YouTube recently was 16 when he ended launched, called “Be Nice we know many kids are not Online”. his life in 2002. In 2006, telling parents when issues arise Using a template type script we Alex Teka, a 12 year old & most of the time, parents have hope to encourage a mixture of girl who was victimized no idea. We also know that high profile figures and general over cell phone also many children feel they must New Zealanders recording & took her own life, and suffer alone with these issues, uploading their own versions in 2008, 17 year old because they are scared of (with “Be Nice Online” in the RECORD UR M8s, WHANAU, SELF, ANY1– READ- Toran Henry did the having access to these tech- titles). Once a collection has ING THIS OUT AND UPLOAD TO YOUTUBE WITH same. formed, we will be using the nologies revoked. The idea of various representations of New “be nice online” AS PART OF THE NAME, THEN Bullying has this year been parents using monitoring soft- Zealand to make a edit & clip for POST US A LINK AND U’LL BE IN THE DRAW 4 making headlines again, with ware etc is redundant as the TV & Radio campaigns to be run SUM EPIC PRIZES—SEE SITE FOR MORE... ^ the schools being the ones one thing we know is that “digital later in the year. struggling most (from media natives” will always know more This campaign was launched with the sample video recording OPEN: 10am—6pm Mon-Fri scrutiny at least). Yet we feel a than us about these technolo- disproportionate number of gies. from 6yr old Shizzi Bowden. She parents don’t feel comfortable But kids can be cruel. And helped us for the first video and sweetas@assistnz.com some- now we launch the next phase thing of our campaign with prizes for PO Box 79042, about entries!!! To get in the draw, t h e simply take a recording of you Royal Heights, internet reading through the “script”, upload to YouTube with “Be WWW . SWEETSAS really plays to Nice Online in the title and post t h a t us a link on our site or YouTube aspect of youth. or Facebook pages to win: www.youtube,com/user/ sweetassocial SOCIALMEDIA.COM But, like m o s t www.facebook.com/pages/sweet- as-social-media/