COMP 2903 A 15 Its not easy to

COMP 2903 A 15 – It’s not easy to stand up to Cyberbullies, but we must Danny Silver JSOCS, Acadia University

Robert M. O’Neil The Chronicle of Higher Education, July 11, 2008 • Director of the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression • Authority on the First Amendment • Teaches constitutional law of free speech and the press, and church and state • Became the University of Virginia's sixth president, a position he held until 1990 http: //www. law. virginia. edu/lawweb/faculty. nsf/FHPb. I/1195824? Open. Document&Expand. Sectio n=4

Cedar Fest • Started the 70 s as a semiannual party (May, Oct) • A densely populated student neighborhood bordering the Michigan State University campus • Cedar Village, East Lansing, Michigan • Banned in 1987 by police • Revived via Facebook in 2008 • Major violence occurred … http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/Cedar_Fest http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=x. BEgjqylro. E

Cyber Bullying • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=D 7 uy. Sc. K 3 -CU

Megan Meier • American teenager from Dardenne Prairie, Missouri • Committed suicide by hanging three weeks before her fourteenth birthday • Meier's parents prompted an investigation into the matter and her suicide was attributed to cyberbullying through My. Space • Mother of a friend of Meier, Lori Drew, was later indicted on the matter in 2008, but in 2009, Drew was acquitted • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=HFsf. DLCkf. QU

Have you suffered from Internet Bullying? Or do you know someone who has?

Cyber-bullying • CBC News Article • STOP Cyberbullying • Related law in Canada • Its complicated …

Juicy Campus. . Where did it go? • http: //www. mahalo. com/juicy-campus • College gossip websites