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Dr. Patchin and Dr. Hinduja have just received word that their research paper on "Bullying, Cyberbullying, and Suicide" has been accepted for publication in the academic journal Archives of Suicide Research. They have created a fact sheet (available here) summarizing its findings. Specifically, it details the empirical link we found between online and offline harassment and suicidal thoughts and actions. If you'd like a copy of the full manuscript, please email them .

They recently published findings from our research project entitled "Trends in online social networking: Adolescent use of MySpace over time." It is forthcoming in New Media and Society, and summarized in a new fact sheet.

Dr. Hinduja was featured on a local NPR affiliate in Wisconsin to speak about cyberbullying. The interview and discussion, available here for download, is 45 minutes in length.

The live chat from Education Week (edweek.org) has been archived, and is worth a read as we fielded numerous questions related to cyberbullying and safe social networking from educators across the United States.

See Dr. Patchin and Dr. Hinduja featured in an article entitled "Cyberbullying: Fact Facts and School Strategies" in the September 2009 issue of the Center for Social and Emotional Education Newsletter!

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Top Ten Cyberbullying Prevention Tips for Educators
- provides specific guidance for those in the school system to reduce the vulnerability of students to online harassment

Top Ten Cyberbullying Response Tips for Educators
- informs school professionals on how best to deal with cyberbullying cases when they occur among your students

Top Ten Cyberbullying Prevention Tips for Parents
- outlines strategies that you can implement at home to keep your kids safe from cyberbullying victimization

Top Ten Cyberbullying Response Tips for Parents
- details how parents should address cyberbullying incidents that affect their children

Top Ten Password Safety Tips for Teens
- educates youth on how best to create and use passwords for online accounts in order to keep them from being victimized

Top Ten Cell Phone Use Tips for Teens
- specifies what teenagers need to keep in mind as they use cell phones at home, at school, and in vehicles

We encourage you to download, reproduce, and distribute them as far and as wide as you'd like (see Permissions Policy).

We have also added three new online quizzes in the Resources section of our site - a "Facts about Cyberbullying" Quiz, a "Dealing with Cyberbullying" Quiz, and an "Addressing Cyberbullying" Quiz. The first focuses on what the research has to say about cyberbullying. The second seeks to help inform youth as they interact with others online, equip them with the right steps to take if someone cyberbullies them, and teach them ways to can prevent the harassment from happening. The third was created for adults to determine their familiarity with cyberbullying, and to increase their awareness of possible prevention and response strategies.

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Latest cyberbullying blog entries
March 10: Strain, Traditional Bullying, and Cyberbullying podcast
I recently participated in a joint podcast organized by Sage Publications with fellow social scientists Robert Agnew, Carter Hay, and Paul Mazerolle to chat about the relationship between the sociological concept of strain, traditional bullying, and cyberbullying. According to Agnew's General Strain Theory, strain has three ...

March 2: Victimology in Cyberspace
Justin and I have been focusing a lot on what I like to call "Facebook Faux Pas" - or, in general, unwise practices on social networking, social media, and microblogging sites.  A new site has been receiving a lot of attention lately - PleaseRobMe.com.  Check it out at your convenience.  Basically, it runs a simple script on Twitter.com to identify and aggregate posts pushed through from one geosocial networking site (

February 25: Quick Poll: Do You Think Schools Should be Able to Discipline Students for Hurtful Facebook Pages?
We've had quite a bit of feedback regarding our recent post that discussed whether or not schools can discipline students for creating a Facebook page that is critical of, or harassing toward, a staff member.  The courts have given their perspective on a few different cases, but I thought I would post this simple poll for readers to weigh in themselves regarding their personal beliefs about what should or should not be allowed. Feel free to add the ...

February 19: Cyberbullying research article published in Deviant Behavior
Routledge (Taylor and Francis) is making some of their copyrighted journal articles available at no cost through June, and our research piece entitled "Cyberbullying: An Exploratory Analysis of Factors Related to Offending and Victimization," published in Deviant Behavior, is one of those and is available here.  To date, it is one of the most downloaded articles from that journal. Here is the abstract: Victimization on the Internet ...

February 18: Can Schools Discipline Students for Creating a Mean Facebook Page About a Teacher?
There have been a few high profile cases recently reviewed by the courts, and summarized in the media, where students have sued their schools arguing that discipline they received as a result of improper online speech was a violation of their First Amendment right.  The most recent case involved a former Florida high school student, Katherine Evans, who created a Facebook page called "Ms. Sarah Phelps is the worst teacher I've ever met!" and encouraged other ...

Latest cyberbullying headlines from around the world

CAPB: Gangs targeting small Canadian communities
Edmonton Sun - 39 minutes ago
It will also demand a national strategy on firearms and aboriginal police forces to patrol reserves and beefed-up bills on cyber-bullying. ...

CAPB: Gangs targeting small Canadian communities
London Free Press - 40 minutes ago
It will also demand a national strategy on firearms and aboriginal police forces to patrol reserves and beefed-up bills on cyber-bullying. ...

CAPB: Gangs targeting small Canadian communities
Calgary Sun - 40 minutes ago
It will also demand a national strategy on firearms and aboriginal police forces to patrol reserves and beefed-up bills on cyber-bullying. ...

CAPB: Gangs targeting small Canadian communities
Winnipeg Sun - 43 minutes ago
It will also demand a national strategy on firearms and aboriginal police forces to patrol reserves and beefed-up bills on cyber-bullying. ...

CAPB: Gangs targeting small Canadian communities
Toronto Sun - 52 minutes ago
It will also demand a national strategy on firearms and aboriginal police forces to patrol reserves and beefed-up bills on cyber-bullying. ...

CAPB: Gangs targeting small Canadian communities
CANOE - 53 minutes ago
It will also demand a national strategy on firearms and aboriginal police forces to patrol reserves and beefed-up bills on cyber-bullying. ...

Half of Youth Who ID as LGBT Say They're Bullied Online
ParentDish (blog) - 2 hours ago
More than half the nation's nonheterosexual kids are victims of cyberbullying, often with devastating emotional effects. An online survey conducted by ...

Cyberbullying Rampant For Lesbian And Gay Teens
Huffington Post (blog) - 3 hours ago
Cyberbullying is on the rise: Children and teens are being bullied through the Internet in chat rooms, on social networking websites, via email and even ...

New principal for Stratford High
Stratford Press - 4 hours ago
Cellphone use and Facebook sites have their place and are great for keeping in touch, but they have the downside of cyber-bullying and being overused. ...

10 ways you might be breaking the law with your computer: UPDATED
TechRepublic (blog) - 4 hours ago
Closely related are the laws against cyberbullying. Such laws have been passed by some states and local governments. In April 2009, the Megan Meier ...

`Internet Safety Videos` now available on Comcast On Demand
Examiner.com - 4 hours ago
They teach parents and guardians how to become involved and take action to protect their children from the risks of social networking, cyberbullying, ...

Web of fear
The Noosa Journal - 4 hours ago
Concerned Noosa parents, shocked by graphic email messages sent to their children, will organise a seminar for parents to address cyber bullying and cyber ...

Concern over cyber-bullying cases
Gulf Times - 4 hours ago
Calls for prosecution of cyber-bullying first reached a peak with the case of a suburban mother accused of driving a love-lorn 13-year-old girl, ...

Cyberbullying Forum At Simsbury High School March 22
Hartford Courant - 5 hours ago
A presentation on cyberbullying will be held later this month in the Simsbury High School auditorium. Starting at 7 pm March 22, Jasdeep Singh, ...

Battling bullying on the schoolyard and the computer
Londoner - 5 hours ago
That is the scenario that plays out for all the victims of cyber bullying, kids whose computers are both their link to the world while also being the source ...

INTERVIEW
Sify - 6 hours ago
A senior Google Inc. executive dismissed any impact on the company's Italian business from a court ruling on a cyber-bullying case, as the company unveiled ...

Half of Nonheterosexual Youth Say They're Bullied Online
ParentDish (blog) - 6 hours ago
More than half the nation's nonheterosexual kids are victims of cyberbullying, often with devastating emotional effects. An online survey conducted by ...

The Dangers of Facebook Are Real
Gather.com - 6 hours ago
Users can report everything from cyberbullying to potential predators. But the USERS need to know to do this. Facebook's warning about dangerous predators ...

The Phoenix: Technology Provides a New Playground for Bullies
my.hsj.org - 7 hours ago
Cyber bullying is when someone is being harassed, threatened, and humiliated/embarrassed by another using the internet / computers or cell phones. ...

Mass. Senate to debate sweeping anti-bullying bill
The Boston - Bay State Banner - 7 hours ago
It would also crack down on so-called cyberbullying by banning the use of e-mails, text messages, Internet postings and other electronic means to create a ...