The issue of bullying is complex in its psychological and sociological complexity. In this article Mark Friis Hau shows how anthropology is supporting schools in Denmark in becoming bully-free. This article was first published by our friends at Antropocon As [...]
When parents and teachers first learn that a child is being bullied, it can sometimes be too late. Nicholas Carlisle talks with filmmaker, father and former victim of bullying, Dr Thomas Keith, about his award winning film Bullied. Shining [...]
The Brookings Institute reported devastating impacts during the pandemic on students and their ability to learn. In this interview Nicholas Carlisle speaks to Kate Sullivan, a seasoned 7th grade English Language Arts teacher in Durham, North Carolina and asks what [...]
Toxic speech has become an existential challenge for social media platforms, compelling them to invest heavily in the monitoring and removal of hateful content. But what does toxicity really mean? And can we successfully train machines to detect it? In [...]
The release last month of the Facebook papers has led to widespread condemnation of the social media giant. The French newspaper Liberation carried the above photo montage from the mall in Washington DC with the headline "Facebook en panne, Zuckerberg [...]
Since the invention of online gaming, there have been concerns that video games were destroying the mental health of a generation. The WHO’s decision in 2018 to include Gaming Disorder in the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) has reignited fears [...]
Online bullying and harassment have risen significantly during the pandemic and the numbers are staggering. The most recent Pew Internet Survey found that 25% of Americans were the targets of severe harassment in the past year (defined as stalking, physical threats, [...]
Nicholas Carlisle interviews Val Whiting, a former WNBA player, about her experience of growing up in Delaware and being doxed and trolled for standing up for female athletes online. What was it like going to school in Delaware? We moved [...]
From the very first steps children take online, they enter a vast, unregulated space frequented by people of all ilks and ages, where opportunities abound but dangers also lurk. Nowadays, especially since the Covid health crisis distanced families and pushed [...]
Today is Safer Internet Day when people around the world focus on how to make the Internet a safer, better place for children
