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 [...]
Today is Safer Internet Day, when we give focused attention to the online lives of young people. The day will be marked with activities and online gatherings in over 200 countries and territories, reaching millions of youth worldwide. After [...]
Eloise Perkins lives with her family on Jersey, a tiny island in the stretch of water between the United Kingdom and France. As my child turns ten and rapidly heads towards the end of their primary school journey, my husband [...]
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 [...]
