{"id":54361,"date":"2014-03-20T10:03:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=54361"},"modified":"2014-03-20T09:03:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-20T04:03:56","slug":"canadian-kids-cyberbullying","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/canadian-kids-cyberbullying","title":{"rendered":"One in Three Canadian Kids Have Been a Victim of Cyberbullying but Maybe That’s Not Such a Big Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"One in four Canadian kids have admitted to cyberbullying, while one in three confess to being a victim.<\/p>\n

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These are the findings of a new study from non-profit organization MediaSmarts, which polled more than 5,400 students. The figures sound bad—but the report<\/a> actually goes on to suggest that cyberbullying is not as serious an issue as parents believe.<\/p>\n

“There’s frequently a perception in the media and certainly held by schools and governments that there’s an epidemic of cyberbullying and a perception that some of the most extreme cases with the most tragic results are the norm,” Matthew Johnson, director of education for MediaSmarts, told The Canadian Press<\/a>. “What we see in fact is that it is much less common and much smaller numbers of students experience significant harm.”<\/p>\n

Name-calling the was most common act of bullying (done by 78% of cyberbullies). 12% attacked someone based on race or religion. 7% made fun of sexual orientation. 4% admitted to sexual harassment. But most kids don’t associate their actions with cyberbullying—they consider it normal part of “the drama of teen life,” according to Johnson.<\/p>\n

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Still, there are causes for concern, according to the report, titled “Young Canadians in a Wired World, Phase III: Cyberbullying: Dealing with Online Meanness, Cruelty and Threats.” Quoth The Canadian Press:<\/p>\n

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“What might be happening in a lot of cases is that it seems like just joking around to the person who’s doing it and it doesn’t necessarily seem that way to the person who’s experiencing it,” [Johnson] says. “We see that a lot of the bullying that’s happening is reciprocal and these bullying situations are much more complex than our understanding of bullying would suggest.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Most students who are cyberbullied online claim it’s not a big deal: 70% of victims say being cyberbullied is rarely or never a problem, while 21% say it’s “sometimes” a problem, and 9% say it’s a problem “often.”<\/p>\n

Image: MediaSmarts<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One in four Canadian kids have admitted to cyberbullying, while one in three confess to being a victim. These are the findings of a new study from non-profit organization MediaSmarts, which polled more than 5,400 students. The figures sound bad—but the report actually goes on to suggest that cyberbullying is not as serious an issue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":54363,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-54361","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/54361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/54361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/54363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54361"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=54361"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=54361"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=54361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}