Mobile, internet and wireless
technologies have increased the pace of communication and brought benefits
to users worldwide. But their popularity provides increasing opportunity for
misuse through ‘cyber bullying’, with worrying consequences.
It's crucial that children and
young people, who are particularly adept at adapting to new technology, use
their mobiles and the internet safely. They must be aware of the consequences
of misuse.
As technology develops, bullying
techniques can evolve to exploit it. School staff, parents and young people
have to be constantly vigilant and work together to prevent this and tackle
it wherever it appears.
Copies
of the following documents are available to download below:
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The
DfES guidelines and a summary of cyber bullying research
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Cyber
bullying press release
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Research
on this issue commissioned by the Anti-Bullying Alliance from Goldsmith's
.pdf)
.pdf)
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Note: The
above documents are in Portable Document Format (PDF). You
will need a suitable reader to view it. A reader can be downloaded free from
the Adobe
website (full instructions for downloading the reader are provided on
the site).