The document discusses cyberbullying and proposes strategies to address it. It defines cyberbullying, explores its methods and prevalence, and examines high-profile cases. It then outlines a multi-pronged approach involving education of parents, children and the community; social media campaigns; and pushing for new laws against cyberbullying anonymity and accountability. The goal is to create broad awareness and organize efforts to ultimately stop and prevent cyberbullying.

1. Team Mosaic:
Hannah Morrell
Emmanuelle Besnard
Dustin Sikes
Allison Dobosiewicz
Tyler Rutledge

2.  What?
 When a child, preteen or teen is tormented by another child, preteen or
teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile
phones. It has to have a minor on both sides, or at least have been
instigated by a minor against another minor.
 How?
 The methods used are limited only by the child's imagination and access to
technology (Social networks, phones, chats…)
 www.stopcyberbultying.org

3.  Criminal case upon which Lori Drew was
convicted of Computer Fraud and Abuse over
the cyber-bullying of 13 year old Megan Meier.
 Drew, a 49 year old woman living in Missouri,
created a fake myspace account with the alias
name Josh Evans to befriend Megan Meier
 “Evans” and Meier began a flirtatious
relationship that turned sour fast
 Megan Meier hung herself because of the
remarks made by “Evans”
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3882520&page=1

4.  20% had someone pretend to  45% of all teens have
be someone else in order to
trick them into revealing been cyberbullied in
personal information
 17% were victimized by the past year alone
someone lying about them
online
 13% learned that a
cyberbully was pretending to
be them while
communicating with
someone else
 10% were victimized by
someone else posting
unflattering pictures of them
without permission
www.ncpc.org

5. http://www.cyberbullying.us/research.php.

6.  Parents
 Children
 Community
 Facebook/social media users

7.  Bring awareness to cyberbullying
 Ways you can be bullied
 Educate parents and children on cyberbulling
 Get the community involved
 Ultimately stop and prevent cyberbullying

8.  Facebook‟s marketing director Randi
Zuckerberg says the best way to end
cyberbullying is to not allow anonymous or
spam accounts
 “people hide behind anonymity and feel like
they can say whatever they want behind closed
doors”
 Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO has made
this suggestion in the past and predictes
“govenments will eventually „demand‟ that
people use their names for all online activity”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2011/07/27/ra
ndi-zuckerberg-anonymity-online_n_910892.html

9.  Start a anti cyberbullying campaign
 School involvement
 Special events
 Public speakers and personal testimonies
 Pledging to not bully
 PSA involvement
 VNR for local television stations
 ANR for local pop radio stations
 Advertisement on Facebook
 You tube video

10.  E-mails,
 Instant messaging,
 Text or digital imaging messages sent on cell
phones,
 Web pages
 Web logs (blogs), Chat rooms or discussion
groups
 Social Networking sites

11. Place a permanent ad on Facebook raising cyberbullying awareness and
prevention

12. Tactics:
ADULTS CHILDREN
 Brochures sent through  Pledges to not
mail cyberbully
 Campaign literature  Information on how to
 Local community prevent cyberbullying
meetings  Q&A on how to handle
 Online video on how to cyber bullying
handle cyberbullying  interactive games and
 Learn how to report activities for anti
cyberbullying cyberbullying online

13.  With the communities help we can create
enough awareness to eventually stop cyber
bullying
 Together we can decrease the statistics of cyber
bullying
 Cyber bullying is too big of an issue to handle
alone
 Make official laws against cyberbullying

14.  Join local PTA‟s
 Write letters to lawmakers
 Flag cyberbullying on social media sites
 Join movements/organizations
http://www.socialsafety.org/law_enforcement_cyberbullying.html

16.  Educate social media
users on how to recognize,
handle, and prevent
cyberbullying
 Show people the effects of
cyberbullying
 Inform people on how to
report or go to higher
authority if needed
 Get people involved in the
anti cyberbullying
movement
 No more anonymity
 Get laws passed making
cyberbullying illegal

17.  www.stopcyberbullying.org
 http://csriu.org/cyberbully.
 http://www.socialsafety.org/law_enforcement_cy
berbullying.html
 http://www.cyberbullying.us/research.php
 www.ncpc.org
 http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3882520
&page=1
 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/201
1/07/27/randi-zuckerberg-anonymity-
online_n_910892.html