Comments on: Gossip You Can’t Manage http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/03/03/gossip-you-cant-manage/ Berkman investigators, fellows, research assistants and interns sound off about all things Digital Natives Fri, 04 Dec 2009 11:53:51 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Teaching for the Future 86 « Teaching for the Future http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/03/03/gossip-you-cant-manage/comment-page-1/#comment-4520 Teaching for the Future 86 « Teaching for the Future Sat, 28 Mar 2009 04:39:56 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/03/03/gossip-you-cant-manage/#comment-4520 [...] Gossip You Can’t Manage from Digital Natives:“In light of recent discussions about managing online reputations, how about something you can’t really control – gossip. JuicyCampus.com is a website aimed at becoming a compendium of gossip at college campuses. The gossip posted is, unsurprisingly, is often malicious and hateful, leading to some backlash in the media.” [...] [...] Gossip You Can’t Manage from Digital Natives:“In light of recent discussions about managing online reputations, how about something you can’t really control – gossip. JuicyCampus.com is a website aimed at becoming a compendium of gossip at college campuses. The gossip posted is, unsurprisingly, is often malicious and hateful, leading to some backlash in the media.” [...]

]]> By: Digital Natives » Out of Our Hands: Privacy and Internet Gossip http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/03/03/gossip-you-cant-manage/comment-page-1/#comment-1706 Digital Natives » Out of Our Hands: Privacy and Internet Gossip Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:07:22 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/03/03/gossip-you-cant-manage/#comment-1706 [...] anonymity and even directs users to proxies to mask their IP addresses. When I last JuicyCampus here, the site had just taken off, attracting media and legal controversy. I haven’t been able to find [...] [...] anonymity and even directs users to proxies to mask their IP addresses. When I last JuicyCampus here, the site had just taken off, attracting media and legal controversy. I haven’t been able to find [...]

]]> By: Shaping Youth » Role Modeling Resiliency: How Are Kids’ Coping Skills? http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/03/03/gossip-you-cant-manage/comment-page-1/#comment-410 Shaping Youth » Role Modeling Resiliency: How Are Kids’ Coping Skills? Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:27:10 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/03/03/gossip-you-cant-manage/#comment-410 [...] Conversely, digital natives can contribute to being the causal link in cases of cyberbullying, ‘Juicy Campus’ gossip run amok, and public slams and wounds to the psyche that are now open to all on the worldwide web, [...] [...] Conversely, digital natives can contribute to being the causal link in cases of cyberbullying, ‘Juicy Campus’ gossip run amok, and public slams and wounds to the psyche that are now open to all on the worldwide web, [...]

]]> By: Shaping Youth http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/03/03/gossip-you-cant-manage/comment-page-1/#comment-297 Shaping Youth Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:02:24 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/digitalnatives/2008/03/03/gossip-you-cant-manage/#comment-297 I'm with you on the pessimism, as even under the auspices of 'media literacy and deconstruction' for use as a counter-marketing tool (to teach about cyberbullying damage) it just doesn't cut it with me. I just can't fathom free speech/talking points outweighing such pain and cruelty, as we just ran a series on 'bullying' on Shaping Youth and there's no doubt the toxic trickle-down will infiltrate middle-school environs in a blink. http://www.shapingyouth.org/blog/?p=1145 Thick skins don't help vulnerable audiences/emotionally unstable kids either, as we wrote about in our special needs post, too. In fact, many of our younger HS advisors have been wounded by the Facebook app/UGC style thumbs up/thumbs down teen popularity polls/hot or not stuff, but they say it's "'like rubber-necking on the freeway, you can't help but peek"--- Is this what we want to put out there when there's such a powerful use of media potential for positivity and youth mobilization? I'd point to onlineethics.org post here just to see how we humans justify our actions as a species...It's wild, and a bit surreal. http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/research/rescases/gradres/gradresv2/subject/subject-c2.aspx Amy Jussel Founder, Exec/Dir. www.ShapingYouth.org I’m with you on the pessimism, as even under the auspices of ‘media literacy and deconstruction’ for use as a counter-marketing tool (to teach about cyberbullying damage) it just doesn’t cut it with me.

I just can’t fathom free speech/talking points outweighing such pain and cruelty, as we just ran a series on ‘bullying’ on Shaping Youth and there’s no doubt the toxic trickle-down will infiltrate middle-school environs in a blink. http://www.shapingyouth.org/blog/?p=1145

Thick skins don’t help vulnerable audiences/emotionally unstable kids either, as we wrote about in our special needs post, too.

In fact, many of our younger HS advisors have been wounded by the Facebook app/UGC style thumbs up/thumbs down teen popularity polls/hot or not stuff, but they say it’s “‘like rubber-necking on the freeway, you can’t help but peek”—

Is this what we want to put out there when there’s such a powerful use of media potential for positivity and youth mobilization?

I’d point to onlineethics.org post here just to see how we humans justify our actions as a species…It’s wild, and a bit surreal.
http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/research/rescases/gradres/gradresv2/subject/subject-c2.aspx

Amy Jussel
Founder, Exec/Dir.
http://www.ShapingYouth.org

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