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Comprehensive Community-Wide Cyberbullying Program

Our presentations are filled with practical take-home strategies that adult-serving youth can immediately implement to help their kids make wise decisions online.

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Resilience: Avoiding Victimization By Developing Social Competence

In a world where bullying and cyberbullying is commonplace, we must help foster resilience in our students. We share why, and exactly how to do it in this keynote presentation.

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From Social to Parasocial Media: Rethinking Youth Online Safety

Think about the last time you were online. Did you use the platform to be social, or just to consume videos from people you have never met? In a recent essay in Social Media + Society, danah boyd discusses this trend, and asserts that twenty years in, the platforms we still call social media have […]

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Conversational AI Chatbots and US Teens: Nearly Half Who Use Them Report Harm

Over the past two years, the public has learned the names of teens like 14-year-old Sewell Setzer III, who developed a romantic attachment to a Character.AI chatbot, and 16-year-old Adam Raine, whose extended conversations with ChatGPT culminated in the bot providing specific suicide guidance. These tragedies surfaced a question many of us in the youth […]

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Sextortion and Teen Suicide

Seventeen-year-old Jordan DeMay met a pretty girl on Instagram who convinced him to share an explicit photo. After he did, “she” demanded $1,000. Fifteen-year-old Bradyn Bohn connected with someone on Facebook who made him laugh. He too was persuaded to share a private image. The new friend demanded money, or the images would be shared […]

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Sextortion and Suicide: Implications for Adolescent Image-Based Abuse

Background: Sextortion – the threatened dissemination of explicit, intimate, or embarrassingimages of a sexual nature without consent for the purpose of acquiring money, more images, orsomething else – has emerged as a critical public safety and public health concern for youth inrecent years.Objective: The current study explores the extent of sextortion among youth, as well […]

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Preventing Cyberbullying Through Vicarious Supervision: Results from New Research

I’ve long been interested in the role of parents in preventing children from participating in problematic behaviors online. Parents should talk with their children about the responsible use of technology and allow access to apps and games at developmentally appropriate ages and in proper amounts. They should also utilize appropriate tools to restrict incidental access […]

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Youth, Generative AI, and Social Chatbots: What We’re Learning, and What Comes Next

NOTE: Since April 2020, we have been offering every one of our presentations and trainings in virtual modalities (e.g., Zoom, WebEx, Teams). Reach out if you need specifics, as we’ve optimized the way we engage with our audiences from afar! This training – customized for either youth-serving practitioners or youth themselves – will equip attendees with a […]

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Vicarious supervision: Preventing cyberbullying through positive parent-child relationships

As youth face various Internet-based risks while interacting online, parents need theoretically grounded, evidence-based insights on strategies to prevent their child(ren) from participating in inappropriate behaviors. An approach that can facilitate better decision-making online, rooted in social bond and attachment theory, is a concept we term vicarious supervision. This perspective emphasizes the parent-child relationships in […]

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