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In 2013, seventeen-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons took her own life. The Halifax teenager had been gang-raped a year and a half earlier by her classmates and labeled a "slut" as a result. Despite transferring schools many times, she could not escape constant cyber harassment and in-person bullying. Rehtaeh's is not the only story like this to make headlines in recent years. Why is the sexual shaming of girls and women, especially sexual assault victims,...
2) Cyberbully
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Taylor Hillridge is a seventeen-year-old girl who falls victim to online bullying. Taylor receives a computer for her birthday and soon finds herself the victim of betrayal and bullying while on a social website. Afraid to face her peers at school (including her best friends), she is pushed to an extreme breaking point. Taylor's mom takes on the school system and state legislation to help others from going through similar ordeals.
3) Nowhere safe
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After two teen girls cruelly impersonate her online in a ₁reverse cyber bullying₂ plot, Ashley₂s reputation is ruined. She and her mother, Julie (a high school teacher), are ostracized, forcing them to flee an escalating threat to their lives. Starting over at new school miles away, romantic interests and the poignant lessons from Kevin, an eccentric history teacher, draw them out of seclusion.
5) #Horror
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You've got followers. Cyberbullying goes offline during one deadly night. Inspired by a shocking true story, the film follows a group of preteen girls living in a suburban world of money and privilege. But when their obsession with a disturbing online game goes too far, virtual terror becomes all too real.
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Sixteen year old Nathan is the new kid in high school. One night while attending a party he falls in love with Louis, a boy in his class. Sneaking away from the crowd, they find themselves out of sight, and eventually work up the courage to kiss each other, but someone takes notice. Soon a picture is published on Facebook, and a storm of bullying and rejection takes over their lives.
8) Cyberbullies
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Uses dramatizations and question and answer sessions to prevent children and teenagers from being bullied by others when using chat rooms, blogs, and instant messaging. Describes possible responses to such abuse and explains the legal issues involving privacy and libel.
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For many kids, the Internet is an important part of their daily routine. Unfortunately, with the immediacy of the Internet, its anonymity and its easy accessibility, kids are using instant messaging, blogs, email, chat rooms, and social networks to spread gossip and rumors to harass and embarrass their peers. In this program, viewers will come to understand that using the Internet for those purposes is actually bullying.