COMP 2903A15 – It’s not easy to stand up to

Cyberbullies, but we mustDanny Silver

JSOCS, Acadia University

Robert M. O’NeilThe 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 1990http://www.law.virginia.edu/lawweb/faculty.nsf/FHPbI/1195824?OpenDocument&ExpandSection=4

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Cedar Fest• Started the 70s 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_Festhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBEgjqylroE

Cyber Bullying

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7uyScK3-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 cyber-bullying through MySpace

• 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=HFsfDLCkfQU

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