Bullying links
May. 8th, 2010 11:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamer_easyTeenage 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 troublesome for me. I found myself being vilified by total strangers based on other people's interpretations of a few words of mine in a blog post. I found myself being held up as an example of ignorant, arrogant white privilege. I found a lot of things being said about me that were flatly untrue, grossly misinterpreted, or simply assumptions based on my skin color and gender as portrayed in my blog's icons — in that last case, flatly stated as such."
Internet. It’s Time To Talk: "Bullies use the tools and the language of social justice to do their work. They literally weaponise the very tools we have fought so very hard to create and work with. And they rely on this to maintain the culture of silence."
ETA: This is very troubling, but I think it's worth including. Some schools may be breeding grounds for teen killers, New Scientist, 18 March 2009: "'Shootings appear more likely in schools [which] provide rewards and recognition for only an elite few, and create social dynamics that promote disrespectful behaviour, bullying, and peer harassment.'... Tackling feelings of isolation in schools might work better than trying to pick out 'the tiny handful of kids who are going to take a gun and massacre their peers'."
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 troublesome for me. I found myself being vilified by total strangers based on other people's interpretations of a few words of mine in a blog post. I found myself being held up as an example of ignorant, arrogant white privilege. I found a lot of things being said about me that were flatly untrue, grossly misinterpreted, or simply assumptions based on my skin color and gender as portrayed in my blog's icons — in that last case, flatly stated as such."
Internet. It’s Time To Talk: "Bullies use the tools and the language of social justice to do their work. They literally weaponise the very tools we have fought so very hard to create and work with. And they rely on this to maintain the culture of silence."
ETA: This is very troubling, but I think it's worth including. Some schools may be breeding grounds for teen killers, New Scientist, 18 March 2009: "'Shootings appear more likely in schools [which] provide rewards and recognition for only an elite few, and create social dynamics that promote disrespectful behaviour, bullying, and peer harassment.'... Tackling feelings of isolation in schools might work better than trying to pick out 'the tiny handful of kids who are going to take a gun and massacre their peers'."
