Sexting / en Sexting is not necessarily the problem, sharing the sext is: 91Թ expert /news/sexting-not-necessarily-problem-sharing-sext-u-t-expert <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Sexting is not necessarily the problem, sharing the sext is: 91Թ expert</span> <div class="field field--name-field-featured-picture field--type-image field--label-hidden field__item"> <img loading="eager" srcset="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2018-02-07-text-resized.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=Gu932uZi 370w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_740/public/2018-02-07-text-resized.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=kEOyI3uc 740w, /sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_1110/public/2018-02-07-text-resized.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=Q9pKGk4H 1110w" sizes="(min-width:1200px) 1110px, (max-width: 1199px) 80vw, (max-width: 767px) 90vw, (max-width: 575px) 95vw" width="740" height="494" src="/sites/default/files/styles/news_banner_370/public/2018-02-07-text-resized.jpg?h=afdc3185&amp;itok=Gu932uZi" alt="Photo of someone on smartphone"> </div> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>noreen.rasbach</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2018-02-07T16:11:24-05:00" title="Wednesday, February 7, 2018 - 16:11" class="datetime">Wed, 02/07/2018 - 16:11</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">(photo by Media for Medical/UIG via Getty Images)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-topic field--type-entity-reference field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Topic</div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/topics/city-culture" hreflang="en">City &amp; Culture</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/factor-inwentash-faculty-social-work" hreflang="en">Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sexting" hreflang="en">Sexting</a></div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Advocating abstinence to young Canadians about sexting does not work, but we need to be educating them about the morality of sharing sexts, says <strong>Faye Mishna</strong>, a professor and dean of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work at the 91Թ.</p> <p>In separate interviews with CBC's&nbsp;<em>Metro Morning</em>&nbsp;and CBC's&nbsp;<em>Superior Morning Radio</em>, Mishna said sexting&nbsp;– sharing intimate images by text&nbsp;–&nbsp;is part of the social&nbsp;culture and is here to stay, but it&nbsp;isn't&nbsp;necessarily a problem.&nbsp;<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span></p> <p>“Sending a text does not have to be problematic. Especially now with cybertechnology, for young adults, for youth, for older adults, it can be part of courting,” she said in the <em>Metro Morning</em> interview.</p> <h3><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/metro-morning/segment/15518881">Listen to the&nbsp;<em>Metro Morning&nbsp;</em>interview with Faye Mishna</a></h3> <h3><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/thunderbay-international-safer-internet-1.4522515">Read the&nbsp;<em>CBC News</em>&nbsp;story</a></h3> <p>Sharing without consent "is definitely not okay,” she said, later calling it immoral. “It is also illegal.”</p> <p>She said that telling young people to stop sending sexts to&nbsp;avoid them being shared&nbsp;puts the blame on the wrong person – the person who sent the message, rather than the person who chose to share it.</p> <p><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"></span> Mishna&nbsp;is the academic lead of a report for MediaSmarts called&nbsp;“<a href="http://mediasmarts.ca/blog/sexting-shifting-focus-victim-blaming-respect-consent">Non-Consensual Sharing of Sexts: Behaviours and Attitudes of Canadian Youth</a>.” The study found that four in 10 young&nbsp;Canadians have sent a sext and more than six in 10 have received one.</p> <h3><a href="https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/02/06/four-in-10-young-canadians-have-sexted-survey-says.html">Read a story on the report in the <em>Toronto Star</em></a></h3> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> Wed, 07 Feb 2018 21:11:24 +0000 noreen.rasbach 128994 at Cyberbullying pervasive among public school students /news/cyberbullying-pervasive-among-public-school-students <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">Cyberbullying pervasive among public school students</span> <span class="field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden"><span>sgupta</span></span> <span class="field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden"><time datetime="2015-09-22T12:33:23-04:00" title="Tuesday, September 22, 2015 - 12:33" class="datetime">Tue, 09/22/2015 - 12:33</time> </span> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-field-cutline-long field--type-text-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Cutline</div> <div class="field__item">Researchers found students often felt that the costs of disclosing distress outweighed the potential benefits (photo by Clemens v. Vogelsang via Flickr)</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-reporters field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/authors-reporters/alan-christie" hreflang="en">Alan Christie</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-author-legacy field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Author legacy</div> <div class="field__item">Alan Christie</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-story-tags field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden field__items"> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/features" hreflang="en">Features</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/technology" hreflang="en">Technology</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/social-work" hreflang="en">Social Work</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/sexting" hreflang="en">Sexting</a></div> <div class="field__item"><a href="/news/tags/cyberbullying" hreflang="en">cyberbullying</a></div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-subheadline field--type-string-long field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">Subheadline</div> <div class="field__item">Girls blamed disproportionately for "sexting" between the sexes</div> </div> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>A major new 91Թ study on cyberbullying suggests that when young people are “sexting” only the girls are getting blamed.</p> <p>Professor <strong>Faye Mishna</strong>, dean of the Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work, has completed a three-year study on cyberbullying based on interviews with students, parents and teachers in schools in the Toronto District School Board.</p> <p>Face-to-face interviews were completed with children and adolescents from ages eight to 18. These students were in Grades 4, 7 or 10 at the start of the study, and were interviewed twice over the three years.</p> <p>Findings clearly indicate that cyberbullying is going on everywhere and that “we have to change the way we look at it,” Mishna told <em>91Թ News</em>.</p> <p>One of the interviews that stood out for Mishna was with a girl in Grade 4 who said that girls call each other sluts. “I don’t know what it means but I know it has something to do with being ugly,” this girl added.</p> <p>“Nasty texts, sexual images, seem to be more of the norm,” Mishna said. “The other thing we found that is very interesting and disturbing is that the girls are getting blamed.”</p> <p>Girls may send private or explicit pictures to boys, but only girls are blamed for having poor judgment when boys (who may have pressured them) post these images on the internet. Adults also seem to think that cyberbullying is primarily a “girl problem,” despite evidence that both sexes participate actively in such behaviour online.</p> <p>The study also found that children conceal their texting activities from adults. “The takeaway message we have is: You can no longer just say ‘don’t do it.’ Don’t do it just means they aren’t going to tell you.”</p> <p>Mishna listed several television shows that convey the message that “sexting” is permissible, including <em>Homeland</em>, <em>Glee</em>, <em>Pretty Little Liars</em>, <em>Revenge</em>, <em>House of Cards</em>, <em>Orange is the New Black </em>and <em>Degrassi</em>. “So on the one hand people are saying don’t do it, but the message from mainstream television is that it is an option with few consequences.”</p> <p>Mixed messages are leading to a widespread “disconnect,” Mishna said. “We need to have a bigger conversation about cyberbullying –&nbsp;less about not doing it and more about dealing with it.”</p> <p>This conversation should embrace all the complexities of the phenomenon of cyberbullying, including societal norms, stereotypes, media depictions and relationships.</p> <p>One of the findings in the study centred around “gender policing,” which has become common. “It’s kids keeping track of how girls in particular dress, how they act, how they don’t wear enough clothes, or wear too many clothes – it can easily become a form of cyberbullying.”</p> <p>People also often overlook the impact of online gaming, Mishna said. Boys who don’t do well are often called offensive names. Cyberbullying goes on there often.</p> <p>Traditional bullying also remains prevalent, the study found. And what adults might consider cyberbullying, kids regard as a normal part of online communication. “Boys call it trash talk,” Mishna said. “Girls call it drama.”</p> <p>The study involved 670 students, 246 parents and 103 teachers. More than 20 schools were involved and 423 students and 95 parents were interviewed in all three years of the study.</p> <p><strong>Eighteen per cent of youth in Toronto public schools self-identify as in distress</strong></p> <p>Published in the scientific journal <em>Children and Youth Services Review</em>, “Students in distress: Unanticipated findings in a cyberbullying study” (by Faye Mishna, Kaitlin J. Schwan, Rachael Lefebvre, Payal Bhole and David Johnston) draws on the findings of the first year of the three-year study. Researchers found 18 per cent of youths in Toronto public schools self-identify as being in distress and many don’t tell the adults in their lives.</p> <p>The paper reported that 122 of 669 students in Grades, 4, 7 and 10 were in distress.</p> <p>This finding is consistent with the level of distress found in the Ontario Child Health Study, one of the largest studies on children’s mental health ever conducted.</p> <p>Female students were more likely to be distress than males. Twenty-seven per cent of participating students with a disability were in distress and more than half of those who identified as non-heterosexual were in distress.</p> <p>A major theme that emerged was the frequency with which students had not disclosed their distress to adults in their lives, either to protect themselves, protect others or because they didn’t believe the adult’s advice or help would be effective.</p> <p>The researchers were concerned that “students often felt that the costs of disclosing distress outweighed the potential benefits.”</p> <p>The study concluded that “the sheer number of students who had not previously told adults about their distress and who did not appear to have adequate strategies and resources to cope with their distress indicates that social work services must be highly visible and readily and easily accessible to students.”</p> <p>Research is needed to understand how to provide access to social services in ways which feel safe, empowering and easy for students, the report said.</p> <p><br> &nbsp;</p> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-news-home-page-banner field--type-boolean field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">News home page banner</div> <div class="field__item">Off</div> </div> <div class="field field--name-field-picpath field--type-string field--label-above"> <div class="field__label">picpath</div> <div class="field__item">sites/default/files/2015-08-25-lockers_0.jpg</div> </div> Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:33:23 +0000 sgupta 7296 at