Traditional versus new forms of bullying: Is there a difference?

In this thread of our 3rd online conference "New Forms of School Bullying and Violence: Cyberbullying, Happy Slapping and Other New Trends" we debated about the differences between ‘traditional’ face-to-face bullying and cyberbullying. In our discussion we - of course - did not manage to resolve our overall question on whether there is a difference between traditional school bullying and cyberbullying or not. Nevertheless various very interesting thoughts and point of views resulted from our discussions that we would like to share with you.

There are two different positions that resulted from our discussions:

Some of us pointed out that "school bullying and cyber bullying are i...

Rights and risks of victims exposed by media

From May 15 to June 9, 2006, the 4th online conference, titled “School Bullying and Violence: The Role of Media” gathered 33 participants from 19 countries. Journalists, media policy makers, researchers, SBV experts, communication practitioners, NGO and educational institutions representatives shared their views, knowledge and experience on how the information about SBV should be reflected by media.

In the second week of the conference the discussions focused on the topic of rights and risks of victims exposed by media. The topic was opened based on the discussions from the first week of the conference

The discussion aimed to answer the following questions:

• which are the rights and which are the risks of victims' media exposure?
• when ...

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Media audience and its competence

The 4th online conference, titled “School Bullying and Violence: The Role of Media” gathered 33 participants from 19 countries from May 15 to June 9, 2006. Journalists, media policy makers, researchers, SBV experts, communication practitioners, NGO and educational institutions representatives shared their views, knowledge and experience on how the information about SBV should be reflected by media

In the third week of discussions we proposed to explore the role of media audience, more precisely of media target groups. Knowing the target group of a medium (newspaper, magazine, TV or radio) or of a program is very important so that to formulate and send a message as effectively as possible. Without knowing whom we talk with we do not know ...

School mediation - a way to deal with school bullying and violence

In our second online conference "Coping with School Bullying and Violence at the local regional level" that was hold from October 24th to November 18th, 2005, we brought together 34 participants - representatives local authorities, local non governmental organizations dealing with  school bullying and violence from 21 countries throughout the world.

One focus of our discussions was on school mediation, a way to deal with school bullying and violence.

School mediation aims at reducing or stopping a conflict inside school between two persons. The conflict can be either among two pupils or students, two teachers, a teacher and a pupil/student, a teacher and a parent. Mediation helps both participants in the conflict to clarify the situation and by m...

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local partnership dealing with school bullying and violence

In our second online conference "Coping with School Bullying and Violence at the local regional level" that was hold from October 24th to November 18th, 2005, we brought together 34 participants - representatives local authorities, local non governmental organizations dealing with  school bullying and violence from 21 countries throughout the world.

One focus of our discussions was on partnership set up localy to deal with SBV.

It is necessary to act locally because school bullying and violence remains the issues of a particular “school community”. Violence at school can not be tackled on an exclusive way, particularly from the family and neighbourhood environments

It seems that a distinction can be made between “inside school” and “o...

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Effects and media programs

The 33 participants of the 4th online conference ““School Bullying and Violence: The Role of Media”, held between May 15 to June 9, discussed about the effects and media programs, too. Everyone brought his/her experience and portrayed the situation as it is in one of the 19 countries where they come from.

We have started the discussion due to the fact that media content include many other things apart from news. If we take the example of a TV, there are news and also movies, entertainment programs, documentaries, talk shows and, of course commercials.

In the last years in several countries, there were several research reports indicating an increasing number of scenes depicting violence in TV programs. The same reports state that the...

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Who uses web sites on school bullying and violence?

In our 1st online conference ‘Coping with School Bullying and Violence Using the Internet’ one of our threads focused on the question on how to build target group oriented web sites.

The starting point of the discussion was the assumption that we actually need different web sites for different target groups - such as pupils, teachers or parents – as these groups differ in terms of their problems, their ways of coping with the problem of school bullying and violence (SBV) or the vocabulary or the tools that fit to a specific group.

As Manfred Schreiber (Germany) pointed out one of the main problems for many web sites seems to be that they do not know who their users are. So, in consequence, the providers o...

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