Cyber bullying: Clarifying Legal Boundaries for School Supervision in Cyberspace
By Shaheen Shariff, Dianne L. Hoff. 2007
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Abstract Cyber bullying is a psychologically devastating form of social cruelty among adolescents. This paper reviews the current policy vacuum of the legal obligations and expectations of schools to monitor and supervise online discourse, while balancing student safety, education, and interaction in virtual space. The paper opens with a profile and conditions of cyber bullying using an analogy to Golding’s (1954), Lord of the Flies. The anarchy and deterioration of unsupervised adolescent relationships depicted in the book are compared to the deterioration of social relationships among adolescents in virtual space. A discussion of the institutional responses to cyber bullying follows. Finally, emerging and established law is highlighted to provide guidelines to help schools reduce cyber bullying through educational means that protect students and avoid litigation.
Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science
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- Racism, Football Fans, and Online Message Boards (2014, background): “…is the increasing opportunity for the promotion of “hate speech” that can center on, for example, racism, homophobia, disability, and sexism, as well as the availability of cyber bullying and the transmission of child porn at the click of a button (Butler, 1997; Rivers, 2011; Shariff & Hoff, 2007).”
- Cyber Worlds: New Playgrounds for Bullying (2011, background): “Another difference between face-to-face bullying and cyberbullying is that cyberbullies target their victims not only at school, but in their homes and any place where technology is accessible (Shariff & Hoff, 2007; Stover, 2006; Strom & Strom, 2005).”