Media Giants Raise Awareness of Bullying

Media companies such as CNN, cartoon network, facebook, time company, etc. have started bullying prevention campaign online to raise awareness.

These companies launched the Facebook page "stop bullying and speak" and provided a place to express support to students and parents for bullying victims. This page also includes hints to resist bullying, a map of 'bullying prevention' for all, and a registration location in school bullying prevention group. CNN's Anderson Cooper also will hold a town-style meeting with a bullying prevention expert at his show 'Anderson Cooper 360 °'.

According to Alice Kahn, senior vice president of social networking at Cartoon Network, this event aims to provide strength to students. Every year, the network shows to the viewers what they most care about and what they think can be improved.

"Children are desperate to change problems such as economy and war," she said. "But the children said that they saw that their friends were being bullied and felt they could do something about it."

According to the National Education Statistics Center, about a quarter of high school students have been bullied in the 2008-2009 academic year, but we estimate that the number of experts is far greater than this. A recent survey by ADT Security Services states that about 70% of parents are bullied by children

"According to all surveys, we know that an" active bystander "group can help safely intervene in bullying," Kahn said. So far, over 420,000 people, like this page, 48,000 people have made virtual promises.

Earlier this week, Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley joined this effort when promised. In a statement, he said that bullying needs to be stopped to improve the American education system.

He said: "We will challenge the Maryland and all Americans to participate in this initiative." "We can return together to build a child's future."

Facebook official Joel Kaplan said in a statement the company 's social network would allow students to spread information faster. "We believe that we have a joint responsibility to safely teach parents and teens," he said.

There are many cyber bullying cases on Facebook, but Kahn of cartoon network says that this platform can be used very well. "We believe that children can promise that their friends" If you can talk with my friends online, I can also talk with friends in the hallway "and she Said.

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First Lady's mission to encourage more responsible social media use is timely. According to the Cyber ​​Bullying Research Center data, the school's awareness of bullying behavior has been raised by nationwide bullying prevention campaign, and the proportion of bullying throughout junior and senior high school students rose from 19% in 2007 to 33.8% in 2016. This organization has revealed that the average percentage of bullying victims in the past 10 years is 28%. Teachers and parents work very hard to pursue technology. According to a survey of 5,600 children conducted by researchers at Florida Atlantic University in 2017, more than a third of students aged 12 to 17 years experienced bullying in their lifetime, 17% in the past I answered that it happened. Within 30 days the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire

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How does the media play a role in preventing school bullying? Media plays an important role in preventing school bullying. Advertising should be able to raise public consciousness. After all, the media is the best way to communicate information and awareness in general. In addition, television, movies, video games are the main cause of child's influence, resulting in more verbal and physical violence. In order to take responsibility in the public place, media literacy seems to be a good way to prevent children's violence. The media should reconsider the violence of television, movies and video games. In addition, public awareness increases through radio stations, newspaper articles, and banners. In addition, the Internet is one of the technical media that can be conveyed to the world through the Internet. In the United States, we built a bullying prevention website that contains information on the role of teachers, the role of school, the victims, and the role of bystanders.