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Binding: Perfect PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 371.58 EAN: 9780878225378 Edition: 2nd ISBN: 0878225374 Label: Research Press Manufacturer: Research Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: January 18, 2007 Publisher: Research Press Release Date: January 18, 2007 Studio: Research Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Online communications can be cruel and vicious. They take place 24/7. Damaging text and images can be widely disseminated and impossible to fully remove. There are emerging reports of youth suicide, violence, and abduction related to cyberbullying and cyberthreats. In this book,the author provides school counselors, administrators, teachers and parents with cutting-edge information on how to prevent and respond to cyberbullying and cyberthreats. It covers challenging issues that occur as students embrace the Internet and other digital technologies such as: *Sending offensive, harassing messages *dissing someone or spreading nasty rumors online *Disclosing someone's intimate personal information *Breaking into someone's e-mail account and sending damaging messages under that person's name *Excluding someone from an online group *Using the Internet to intimidate The book includes detailed guidelines for managing in-school use of the Internet and personal devices, including cell phones. Appendices contain reproducible assessment and program forms, as well as parent and student handouts. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - cyberbullying and cyberthreatsWillard spelled out clearly the nuiances of cyberbullying and cyberthreats in her book, which addresses the real-life online risks students face as they blindly roam the world of Internet and other digital technologies.Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social Aggression, Threats and Distress Rating: - A important book for parents and educators[This review first appeared in my column in the July-August issue of The National Psychologist.} National research studies have found that children and teenagers spend six hours and 21 minutes per day, nearly 45 hours per week, using digital media including television, the Internet, music and video games. A nationwide Kaiser Family Foundation study discovered that if you take into consideration that most kids multitask, the actual media diet is an astounding eight hours and 33 minutes ... Read More Rating:  - don't be over-restrained in your usageWillard addresses something of concern to educators and parents, who might be worried about kids being menaced via a computer network. Which these days essentially means the Internet, through myriad modalities like Instant Messaging, email, Internet Relay Chat etc. Nor is the concern necessarily limited to young users. Adults too might encounter many of the same problems. Certainly, there have been well publicised cases of stalking and physical accosting, initiated over the net. So Willard's ... Read More 
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