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Intel pays $120M for RealNetworks video patents, softwareIntel buys more video clout with foundational patents and next-generation encoding software. Video is spreading to every sort of gadget, and its a market wchester adult school Help line in the works for cyberbullying victimsith abundant patent challenges.
But that can lead to cyberbullying such as changing passwords or posting something on the Internet under that persons name. More troubling, the bulk of cyberbullying is done by friends, and the victims often protect the bullies from getting into trouble.
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Work on the help line project just started Tuesday. It will begin with Teenangels student volunteers from two high schools in West Chester County, and Aftab hopes it will be up and running in that county by Christmas. It will start as text- and instant-messaging only and will be staffed by teens.
She said she hasnt yet had a chance to discuss how to best work with social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and MyYearbook. But, ideally, she would like to see some sort of widget or application right on the sites that refers to the help line. (In its pilot phase, it would only be available to social groups in West Chester County.)
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chester adult school Help line in the works for cyberbullying victims,In an interview Wednesday following a meeting of the Internet Safety Technical Task Force at Harvard University, Parry Aftab, the director of the national advocacy groupWiredSafety, said her organization had started working on a pilot project to support cyber-bullying targets in West Chester County, New York.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--A grassroots organization is working on a help line to support kids dealing with cyberbullying and other online issues, particularly on social networks.
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Perhaps the biggest reason for that is students behavior: A recent survey of high school students done by the Teenangels found 70 percent of the kids surveyed share passwords with other people. The reasons are often innocuous, such as asking someone to check their e-mail for them, or to find a homework assignment for them. Often, [adult school] high school classes Fairfield County students donate time, money, goods (0) 2011-12-26 9:13:51 teens in relationships will share passwords to assure one another theyre being ithful.
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With that behavior in mind, it makes sense to offer peer support, rather than massive (that critics say couldnonetheless be ineffectual) technological expertise (as the ISTTF is investigating), as a method to deal with the problem.
Aftab said she had considered doing a help line for years, but had resisted because of liability issues. She now believes that with assistance from Pace University, a planned escalation policy will help teen volunteers deal with (or more appropriately, refer to the right emergency resources) anyone who raises issues such as cutting, suicide, or ual exploitation.
Aftab and three student volunteers fromWiredSafetys Teenangels programspoke at the conference. Teenangels was started in 1999 as a mentoring program that trains teenagers to teach Internet safety issues to kids, parents, and other adults.
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They know what the issues are, Aftab said. Theres no timeframe for going national with the program, but Aftab hopes it can grow in the same grassroots or viral method her organization has grown--one community at a time.
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The Teenangels students and Aftab brought a dose of reality to the ISTTF conference held here at the Harvard Law School. After two days of presentations from academics, companies pitching age control mechanisms for Web sites, and 30-minute presentations from both Facebook and MySpace, it was the students turn to speak. And what they had to say brought home just how difficult cyberbullying is to deal with.
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Jim KerstetterJim Kerstetter has been writing about the high-tech industry since the 1990s. He has been a senior editor at PC Week and a Silicon Valley correspondent at BusinessWeek. He is now senior executive editor at CNET News. He moved back to Boston because he missed the Red Sox.E-mail Jim.
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