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Mental Health Month: Shedding Light on Adolescent Depression
Among the myriad of mental health challenges, depression continues to be a prominent and pressing concern, particularly among adolescents. It’s critical to shed light on the reality of adolescent depression, addressing its validity and offering hope for those navigating this complex journey.
Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
May is a month of celebration and recognition as we honor Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.
Embrace Love and Diversity: Celebrating Pride Month
Throughout June, people around the world come together to honor the rich history, progress, and resilience of LGBTQ+ individuals.
Embracing Allyship: Standing with the LGBTQ+ Community
Explore practical actions LGBTQ+ allies can take to foster inclusivity, promote understanding, and create positive change.
Generative AI Risks and Harms – The Role of Platforms and Users
Generative AI is revolutionizing the way that content is created as user-friendly tools have made their way into the hands of the masses around the world. The possibilities seem endless, and their application may impact almost every sector of society. Since the beginning of time, though, every novel technology suffused with promise also provides an…
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Generative AI as a Vector for Harassment and Harm
As a social science researcher studying trust and safety on online platforms, it is critical to think through potential risks and negative impacts associated with the use of generative AI technologies. To be sure, its potential is incredible – and will benefit societal members in almost limitless ways. In this environment of giddy euphoria about…
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From Bullying to Mental Health: Navigating the Challenges of Adolescence
Bullying is not just a physical act of violence, but it can also have serious mental health consequences. Teenagers go through a lot of changes and experiences that can affect our emotional and mental well-being. Bullying can add to these challenges and have a detrimental effect on their mental health.
April is Diversity Month! Celebrate a World of Differences.
Diversity promotes inclusivity, understanding, and appreciation for different cultures, backgrounds, and perspectives. When we celebrate diversity, we recognize the value of each individual and acknowledge the contributions that people from different backgrounds can bring to our society.
International Transgender Day of Visibility
International Transgender Day of Visibility is held annually on March 31st to celebrate the lives of transgender and non-binary individuals across the world.
A Teen’s View of Social Media in 2023
I met Amelia when speaking at a high school in Central Florida, and was struck by her wide-angle view on the impact of social media in her life, and in the lives of her peers. I thought our readers could learn a lot from her insights, and so I asked her to provide this year’s…
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Take it Down: A New Tool to Combat the Unauthorized Sharing of Explicit Images of Minors
It has long been stressed that once you send an image to someone else, or post it online, you lose complete control over how that image is used and where it might end up. While this is still mostly true, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), with funding from Meta, has developed…
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The National Day of Racial Healing is Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Created and hosted by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation in 2017, this special day is an opportunity to bring ALL people together in their common humanity and inspire collective action from the effects of racism to create a more just and unbiased world. Let’s Talk About It!
Year-End Giving: Donate Crypto, Cash or NFT Donations to STOMP Out Bullying
Year End Giving is made easy with STOMP Out Bullying. Donate Crypto, cash or NFT donations today.
Cyberbullying Among Asian American Youth Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
PURPOSE Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a concern that cyberbullying incidents would increase as youth were spending more time online. Additionally, reports emerged that Asian American citizens were being disproportionately targeted due to the purported origination of the disease. The current study explores whether cyberbullying incidents increased among adolescents overall—and Asian American youth…
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School Administrators Charged with Child Exploitation After Investigating Sexting
Last spring, Brush High School (Brush, Colorado) assistant principal Bradley Bass was alerted to a student sexting issue at his school. He and secondary schools director Scott Hodgson looked into it. They talked to some students who were reportedly involved, and determined that intimate images had been shared consensually. At least one student voluntarily showed…
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Digital Self-Harm and Suicidality Among Adolescents
Background Research on digital self-harm – the anonymous online posting, sending, or otherwise sharing of hurtful content about oneself – is still in its infancy. Yet unexplored is whether digital self-harm is related to suicidal ideation or suicide attempts. Methods In the current study, survey data were collected in 2019 from a national sample of…
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Bias-Based Cyberbullying Among Early Adolescents: The Role of Cognitive and Affective Empathy
Bias-based cyberbullying involves repeated hurtful actions online that devalue or harass one’s peers specific to an identity-based characteristic. Cyberbullying in general has received increased scholarly scrutiny over the last decade, but the subtype of bias-based cyberbullying has been much less frequently investigated, with no known previous studies involving youth across the United States. The current…
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How Media Literacy Can Prevent Online Harm
Youth are accessing a remarkable number of mediums (often at the same time!), and are constantly exposed to a wide and deep array of content. This spans the gamut from texts and notifications, to TikTok videos and Snap(chat) stories, to Twitter Spaces and Discord chats. This tidal wave of content is not going to ebb.…
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Promoting Media Literacy: Ten Activities to Help Students Create, Evaluate, and Analyze Content
(For a formatted .pdf version of this article for distribution, click on the image above [or click here]). Media literacy is best defined as the ability to access, create, analyze, and evaluate messages in a variety of forms. Anyone can post nearly anything at any time, from pretty much anywhere, and there are very few…
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Cyberbullying Among Asian American Youth Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Last year I posted preliminary results of our inquiry into whether cyberbullying had increased during the COVID-19 pandemic. We found that it had in fact increased, though not to the extent that some had predicted. Today I can share that additional findings from this research have just been published in the Journal of School Health.…
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