Sexting and Cyberbullying - Defining the Line for Digitally Empowered Kids

Informationen zum Autor Shaheen Shariff is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at McGill University. She is the 2012 winner of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for scholarship and service to Canada. Shariff is a frequent commentator and researcher who has written extensively on the intersecting influences and the impact of legal, social, political, religious, cultural, and organizational systems and of news media on education in a rapidly evolving digital society. She is the author of Confronting Cyberbullying: What Schools Need to Know to Control Misconduct and Avoid Legal Consequences (Cambridge, 2009) and Cyberbullying: Issues and Solutions for the School, the Classroom and the Home (2008). Klappentext Zusammenfassung Directed at policy makers! legislators! educators! parents! members of the legal community! and anyone concerned about current public policy responses to sexting and cyberbullying! this book examines the lines between online joking and legal consequences. It offers an analysis of reactive versus preventive legal and educational responses to these issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Confronting cyberbullying - are we any further ahead?; 2. Sexism defines the lines between 'fun' and power; 3. The irony of charging children with distribution of child pornography; 4. Keeping kids out of court: jokes, defamation, and duty to protect; 5. From Lord of the Flies to Harry Potter: lessons we can all learn.

Product details

• Authors: Shaheen Shariff, Shaheen (Mcgill University Shariff, Shariff Shaheen
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2014
• EAN: 9781107019911
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01991-1
• No. of pages: 238
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, Law & society, Educational strategies and policy, Bullying & Anti-Bullying Strategies, Law and society, sociology of law