Following the MySpace suicide case, the lawmakers in Missouri changed the state’s harassment laws, by including “cyberbullying†as a criminal act. The law was updated in August 2008, but there are already several other citizens that are charged for harassment through technological means.
"If this verdict stands, it means that every site on the internet gets to define the criminal law," stated senior legal policy analyst Andrew Grossman for the Heritage Foundation. "That's a radical change. What used to be small-stakes contracts become high-stakes criminal prohibitions."
Very interesting case in which an adult is convicted of a misdemeanor when she posed as a teenage boy on MySpace and communicated with another teenager who ended up committing suicide.
Discusses a MacArthur Foundation study on teens' online socializing.
The kids online are indeed goofing off - but it's that goofing off that's key to their ability to do more "serious" internet usage.
This article shares some concerns of using social networking sites.
To keep kids safer online, are educators making it easier to target advertising to their students?
What types of communication should teachers have with students on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace?
Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)
Citation: boyd, danah and Henry Jenkins. 2006. "MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA)." MIT Tech Talk. May 26. http://www.danah.org/papers/MySpaceDOPA.html
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Following the MySpace suicide case, the lawmakers in Missouri changed the state’s harassment laws, by including “cyberbullying†as a criminal act. The law was updated in August 2008, but there are already several other citizens that are charged for harassment through technological means.
"If this verdict stands, it means that every site on the internet gets to define the criminal law," stated senior legal policy analyst Andrew Grossman for the Heritage Foundation. "That's a radical change. What used to be small-stakes contracts become high-stakes criminal prohibitions."
Very interesting case in which an adult is convicted of a misdemeanor when she posed as a teenage boy on MySpace and communicated with another teenager who ended up committing suicide.
The kids online are indeed goofing off - but it's that goofing off that's key to their ability to do more "serious" internet usage.
To keep kids safer online, are educators making it easier to target advertising to their students?
What types of communication should teachers have with students on social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace?
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