Last month’s New York Times article The Instagram account that shattered a California High School chronicles a complex online bullying incident at a California high school that sparked intense backlash, lawsuits and raised thorny issues around balancing free speech and [...]
In June, the BBC reported that Elon Musk had challenged Mark Zuckerberg to a cage fight. It brings up an important point - what lessons are we really teaching children when influential figures “joke” about violence or exchange public verbal [...]
Internet trolling can have devastating psychological impacts on its victims, so what leads someone to engage in cyber violence? We speak to Dr Gareth Tyson, a leading researcher on the dark side of the Internet to find out. What is [...]
I used to think that cyberbullying was simply bullying that had extended into the online world. And maybe in the early years there was some truth in that. After all, many students who are bullied during the school day are [...]
Recently, we had the pleasure of speaking with CEO Jessica (Jess) Rowlings and Dr Matthew (Matt) Harrison about their organisation Next Level Collaboration, a neurodiverse-positive social capacity-building program for young people delivered through online gaming experiences. How did you decide [...]
I’ve just returned from giving a keynote to schools at the EARCOS teacher conference in Asia. My subject was whether we are too late to reverse the cyberbullying epidemic. The room was packed with educators wanting to understand what is driving [...]
