What is it about?
This paper is about the jurisdictional problems that make regulating cyberbullying difficult for school administrators. I argue that certain contextual factors in cyberbullying speech may help clarify these issues.
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Why is it important?
Cyberbullying affects tens of thousands of people. Cyberbullying makes people depressed, engage in suicidal ideation, attempt suicide, perform self-harm, and experience a decline in school or work performance. Additionally, going through harassment, libel, or slander lawsuits can be expensive, slow, and traumatic for persons. This article looks to First Amendment cases about student speech rights to open opportunities for schools to intervene in cyberbullying among their students in a way that should not violate students' First Amendment rights.
Perspectives
I think nuanced approaches to speech regulation and to handling instances of cyberbullying are important. My aim is to help administrators intervene in a harmful speech activity in a way that does not violate students' rights.
Alvin Primack
University of Pittsburgh
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This page is a summary of: Student cyberbullying inside the digital schoolhouse gate: Toward a standard for determining where a “School” is, First Amendment Studies, January 2017, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/21689725.2016.1278177.
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