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| Agent Matt | Posted: Jul 24, 2010 - 21:19 |
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 Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | I think it was Falkner I got into a discussion with on IRC about the whole Phoebe Prince tragedy and how I thought it was probably more complicated than just "the Internet makes bullying worse." Slate did a piece on the entire thing and it turns out that it really wasn't the Internet's "fault" at all, but a perfect storm that under the circumstances most likely would have happened with or without the technology involved. The Untold Story of Her Suicide and the Role of the Kids Who Have Been Criminally Charged for It | |||||
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| Kaiser Falkner | Posted: Jul 24, 2010 - 22:59 |
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 HAIL HYDRA Level: 6 CS Original | Actually I was talking about the Megan Meier case out of O'fallon Missouri. Different set of circumstances completely: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megan_meier</p> This was the case I actually wrote my "What is a Human Class" paper on. | |||||
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| Kaiser Falkner | Posted: Jul 24, 2010 - 23:05 |
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HAIL HYDRA Level: 6 CS Original | If you decide to read about the Meier case, remember to ask yourself how things must have looked from her perspective and then what that means about how the Internet serves as a medium for human identification and interaction. | |||||
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| Agent Matt | Posted: Jul 25, 2010 - 09:06 |
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Genuine American Monster Level: 70 CS Original | This thread was a colossal fail. Oh well. | |||||
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