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Bullying On Twitter: Researchers Find 15,000 Bully-Related Tweets Sent Daily (STUDY) - 7 views

www.huffingtonpost.com/...ying-on-twitter_n_1732952.html

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shared by carly baraloto on 07 Feb 13 - No Cached
    • Carmen Garland
      Carmen Garland on 07 Feb 13
       
      What is the key information in this article about Twitter and bullying?  Highlight and comment on the important ideas in the article.  
    • christopher trotter
      christopher trotter on 11 Feb 13
       
      good info
    • christopher trotter
      christopher trotter on 11 Feb 13
       
      very good connections from top researchers about children and their electronic enviornments
    • Kate Ruhland
      Kate Ruhland on 11 Feb 13
       
      Started a system that tracks key words and emoji's that can we connected to bullying
    • carly baraloto
      carly baraloto on 11 Feb 13
       
      twitter has about 15,000 nasty comments a day that is considered cyber bullying
  • how they were able to develop their system of labeling tweets. Ranks were assigned to certain words and emoticons (smiley faces, frowning faces and the like), and a machine would then read the value of each of these words and symbols.
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  • their research also lead to a new role: the reporter.
  • about 15,000 bullying-related tweets are posted every day, meaning more than 100,000 nasty messages taint the digital world each week.
  • “They don’t want to look like a tattletale, or they think an adult might not do anything about it."
  • the reachers would like to continue their study by digging into other social networks, such as Facebook. Bellmore and Zhu also hope these finding will help policy-makers better understand the morphing world of cyberbullying.
  • Incidents of "reporter" style tweeting recently made negative headlines when a 17-year-old boy snapped a photo of a man dying in the street, but didn't stop to assist him. His apathetic actions sparked a debate -- when do we, as onlookers, interfere?
  • "What we found, very importantly, was that quite often the victim and the bully and even bystanders talk about a real-world bullying incident on social media," Zhu told the University of Wisconsin-Madison News.
    • martha sutter
      martha sutter on 11 Feb 13
       
      this article shows that twitter can be used for not only good but bad, cyber-bullying on twitter is a serious issue
  • about 15,000 bullying-related tweets are posted every day, meaning more than 100,000 nasty messages taint the digital world each week.
    • carly baraloto
      carly baraloto on 11 Feb 13
       
      twitter is a bad place
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