Cyberbullying

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• Yik Yak: the anonymous app taking US college campuses by storm

  21 Oct 2014: It is the latest anonymous app after Whisper and Secret – but what is it, how does it work, and why are more than 1,000 US colleges active on it? By Hannah Jane Parkinson

• Monica Lewinsky says she was among earliest victims of cyberbullying

  21 Oct 2014: White House intern during Bill Clinton’s first term says torment over their affair reduced her to ‘creature from the media lagoon’

• Gamergate: the internet is the toughest game in town – if you’re playing as a woman

  20 Oct 2014: Charlie Brooker: It’s a stealth adventure with nowhere to hide and hundreds of respawning enemies waiting to attack you the moment you stand out in any way

• Lazy coverage of Gamergate is only feeding this abusive campaign

  16 Oct 2014: Gamergate’s self-image of itself as ‘crusaders for ethics’ isn’t supported by its actions, so the media should stop describing it as such. By Alex Hern

• Understanding the internet troll – Tech Weekly podcast

  Audio (27min 31sec), 8 Oct 2014:

  Claire Hardaker on the complexity of understanding the internet troll. Also the tech team discuss Hewlett-Packard and Tesco's Hudl 2

• Does free speech give us the right to anonymously troll strangers?

  6 Oct 2014: Suzanne Moore: First thoughts: The McCann abuse dossier shows that, without any sense of accountability, we create an antisocial media in which the same people get shouted down

• Lib Dems plan to make mental health and social issues part of curriculum

  3 Oct 2014: Junior coalition party wants children to have mandatory lessons about conditions such as anxiety, depression and sexting

• The internet has changed everything – and nothing

  26 Sep 2014: Deborah Orr: In the real world people still torture and kill each other, all that’s changed is that they post it online

• Behind the online comments: the psychology of internet trolls

  18 Sep 2014: Following revelations by YouTube star PewDiePie and TV historian Mary Beard, the issue of how to manage trolls is back in the spotlight, writes Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic

• Stalking prosecutions rise by 20% under new law on harassment

  11 Sep 2014:

  Behaviour 'causing serious distress' leads to prosecution of 10,535 people, as CPS and Acpo pledge better victim support

• ‘How to tame your troll’ only really works if you’re Mary Beard

  29 Aug 2014: Hadley Freeman: Online abuse can’t be controlled by those on the receiving end of it any more than rape can. After all, who’s culpable here?

• Like Mary Beard, have you killed an enemy with kindness?

  28 Aug 2014: Open thread: The academic has written a job reference for a troll who abused her on social media. What have you done to rise above those who have wronged you?

• Mary Beard reveals she befriended Twitter trolls following online abuse

  27 Aug 2014: Classicist says she wrote reference for one troll because she feared name-and-shame response would harm his job prospects

• Ask.fm's new owners vow to crack down on bullying or shut the site

  19 Aug 2014: The Q&A site connected with seven teenagers’ suicides has been bought by Ask.com, who has sworn to crack down on abuse of the platform. By Alex Hern

• Online safety: is the internet really a dangerous, lawless jungle for children?

  15 Aug 2014: Unsubstantiated news reports do nothing to help, argues Stephen Balkam, unlike education and evidence-based policy

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