Calling all Media!

Hundreds of surveys and studies have proved over past two decades how violent T.V programs affect teenagers. The researchers identified that regular watching of violent programs increased fear and also made them afraid of the entire world around them. Sometimes violence is portrayed as humor or fun activities in many television programs which influence a [...]

Trouble with Sexting?

We will now begin to explore a sub-set of Cyber Bullying known as Sexting.  Sexting occurs when students send porn photographs and sexually explicit messages through e-mails and texting with cell phones. This term became popular around the year 2005 as more and more people, especially young students, began the practice.
Students, all too often, send [...]

The forms of Cyber Bullying

Cyber bullying, as discussed in the last post, refers to students being beleaguered, threatened, stressed, mortified and embarrassed by others through the internet or other digital technologies.  At times students develop suicidal tendencies in the most extreme cases of cyber bullying.  We know that the internet is full of people who have very bad intentions. [...]