Cyberslammed: Understand, Prevent, Combat and Transform The Most Common Cyberbullying Tactics

Sponsored by Time Warner Cable, Cyberslammed: Understand, Prevent, Combat, And Transform The Most Common Cyberbullying Tactics is a first-of-its-kind hybrid workbook that can be used in classrooms as a teaching tool as well as at home as a resource. Each chapter is jam-packed with tactical advice to help parents, educators and students in 5th-12th grade quickly analyze the underlying conflict and work toward its solution with the least harm done. With this book, you get a logical, 360-degree approach that examines six forms of cyberbullying through modern digital technologies and social media including a: ▪ Digital Pile On - (Ganging up on someone on chat forums or Instant Messaging); ▪ Rating Website - (Using Internet polls to get bystanders to vote for their "ugliest," "fattest," "dumbest" peers); ▪ Imposter Profile - (Creating a website or social networking profile to deceive others to assume it is genuinely owned and maintained by the target); ▪ Haters' Club - (Spreading mob mentality on websites or social networking sites to persecute an individual); ▪ Sexting - (Taking or sending an explicit photo of oneself and forwarding it to friends or potential partners); ▪ Videojacking - (Videotaping a target without his or her knowledge/approval and uploading the video to a popular video-sharing website). Crafted with advice from cyberbullying experts, parents, educators, psychologists, attorneys, law enforcement and a martial artist, Cyberslammed provides a comprehensive rundown of the most harmful digital conflicts teens face online today...and the best ways to stop it!

Kay Stephens is an author and a freelance writer with more than 20 years of experience working with  teens and tweens in New England as a mentor and educator.  A regular contributor to Maine newspapers and magazines, she also runs her own creative content and social media business and is currently at work on young adult novels with a cyberbullying theme.

Vinitha Nair is the Co-Founder and a Board member of Platform Shoes Forum, a non-governmental organization (NGO) that builds digital learning networks with a focus on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education for middle and high school students.   Since the nonprofit's launch, Vinitha has worked to promote workforce diversity and gender equity by helping establish statewide coalitions and promoting initiatives to influence change in this area.