Sharing sexts
There is little evidence that sending sexts is by itself a risky act. For example, one 2018 study suggests that “sexting can be a healthy way for young people to explore sexuality and intimacy when it’s consensual.”
Marketing violence (and fear of it)
No one knows better than the media industry that children and youth represent a huge market, due to both their own spending power and their influence on family spending decisions.
Quebec Competencies Chart - The Citizen Reporter
Quebec Competencies Chart - The Citizen Reporter
Quebec Competencies Chart - Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
Quebec Competencies Chart - Shaking the Movers: Youth Rights and Media
Quebec Competencies Chart - Digital Storytelling for Community Engagement
Quebec Competencies Chart - Digital Storytelling for Community Engagement
Quebec Competencies Chart – There’s no excuse: confronting moral disengagement in sexting
Author: MediaSmarts and TELUS
Level: Grades 11-12
Lesson Length: 1 hour, plus time for assessment and evaluation activity
Subject Area: English Language Arts, Visual Art, Drama, Ethics and Religious Culture
Lesson Link: https://mediasmarts.ca/teacher-resources/there’s-no-excuse-confronting-moral-disengagement-sexting
What is AI?
AI (artificial intelligence) is a way of using computer algorithms to do things with little or no human involvement.
Not Black and White: Understanding the Nuances of Cyberbullying
How big a problem is cyberbullying? To judge by media coverage, which frequently focuses on the most sensational and extreme cases, it’s an epidemic, and schools and legislators have often responded with heavy-handed measures. Students, on the other hand, are more likely to say that cyberbullying is less of an issue than adults perceive it to be – though even they, in many cases, overestimate how common it actually is. MediaSmarts’ report Cyberbullying: Dealing with Online Meanness, Cruelty and Threats, the third in a series of reports based on data from our Young Canadians in a Wired World survey, suggests that so far as Canadian youth are concerned the answer is somewhere in between, presenting a portrait of online conflict that demands more nuanced, contextualized and evidence-based responses.