Bilingual site provides youth, parents and teachers with guidelines for online behaviour
A McGill University research team led by Prof. Shaheen Shariff is launching a new website that will help define and discourage cyber-bullying, while encouraging socially responsible digital citizenship.
The site promises to become a valuable resource for youth, parents and educators across North America, providing advice from leading experts in a user-friendly format.
Definetheline.ca will, for example, help stakeholders define the lines at which:
joking and teasing become criminal harassment and criminal threats;
regulations, laws and policies turn into limits on free expression ;
rumours, lies or demeaning images posted on social media can ruin a peer or teacher’s reputation and become cyber-libel.
The bilingual (English/French) site features video vignettes for youth, teachers and parents to review together. The aim is to develop standards to reduce and prevent negative forms of expression such as cyber-bullying, cyber-libel and cyber-harassment.
Dr. Shariff, Associate Professor at McGill and Affiliate Scholar at Stanford University’s Center for Internet and Society leads a project team composed of graduate research assistants from McGill’s Faculties of Law and Education.
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