The Cowards Who Spread Bile Into Fandom: rage against an anonymous online forum dedicated to personal attacks on the people behind the scenes of Stargate: Universe.

Teenage Insults, Scrawled on Web, Not on Walls: NYT reports on formspring.me, 5 May 2010

Social Form Of Bullying Linked To Depression, Anxiety In Adults, Science Daily, 23 April 2008

Bullying harms kids' mental health: study, Reuters, 6 February 2008

Fear, self-censorship, and facing into it: "The so-called "Race Fail" last year was very ( Read more... )

Given his feminist cred, I wonder if Neil Gaiman remarking that "George R. R. Martin is not your bitch" can be read not as a misogynist slip, but a use of the culture's current popular metaphor for exploitation and abuse. In which case, the insult is not directed at the targets of abuse, but at the abusers, with the sense of "stop treating other ( Read more... )

I have the rampaging thoughts tonight. Parking some of them here, just to get them out of my system ( Read more... )

In the grip of mid insomnia around 3 am, I listened to a short talk on the Buddhist idea of Right Speech. As someone with a history of wading into arguments with a sword swinging around her head, and someone who sees all the damage done by teh net.stupid, I'm becoming convinced that Right Speech is the only hope for text-based online communication ( Read more... )

Happy or not, Russians rarely smile in public

Why girls are killing themselves. "[Teenage girls] lack the privacy needed to work through the emotional struggles of adolescence because of cell phones, instant messaging, and social networking sites. 'Let's say things aren't going well in middle or high school and you email someone about it,' Hinshaw ( Read more... )

Last bunch of notes, ISTG.

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I had hoped to space this stuff out so as not to look COMPLETELY obsessed, but now someone's gone and reserved the other books I borrowed as well - they must be writing their thesis on it or something. Anyway, I have to take a bunch of notes from them pretty much now.

( Cyber bullying: bullying in the digital age by Robin M. Kowalski. )

Last bit from Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats.

( The Invisible Fan )

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats goes back tomorrow, so here's my last few notes from the book.

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