Cyber Everything

The New York Times ran an article about Cyberbullying and how parents are often unaware that it is happening. The article also contains a link to an anonymous Web-based survey that was conducted, with one thousand four hundred fifty-four 12- to 17-year-old youth, by The Journal of Health.

They also listed an article about teens exposing themselves in cyberspace.

This article has great links to interesting studies about teen online behavior and tips on commonsense suggestions for teens.

Gender and Media

The sessions we have on Media always make for great discussions with the students. This is a link I got from the Program Director of Breakthrough New York at The Town School. She felt the site (Gender Ads.com) helped to take their discussion about media to another level. Gender Ads.com was launched a number of years ago (by its founder, Dr. Scott A. Lucas) to provide gender studies educators and students with a resource for analyzing the advertising images that relate to gender.

This is a great source for examples of different types of gender-related advertising materials. The adds are divided into categories such as women as dolls, nymphomaniacs, naggers, strippers etc.

The site also considers Males in Ads and looks at how males are typically represented in advertising. We should be equally concerned with how males are misrepresented in print ads.