WNY Education Associates » school_violence http://www.angelastockman.com Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:09:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 A Timely Question http://www.angelastockman.com/blog/2008/04/09/a-timely-question/ http://www.angelastockman.com/blog/2008/04/09/a-timely-question/#comments Thu, 10 Apr 2008 03:30:14 +0000 Angela http://inservice.wordpress.com/?p=40 So, let’s just say a group of teenage girls lures an unsuspecting victim to a gathering wherein she is rapidly turned-upon and beaten unconscious in retaliation for some unscrupulous remarks she supposedly made on her MySpace page. Let’s also say that the girls perpetrating this crime intentionally video-taped it, with the intention of broadcasting it on YouTube.

Would it make sense, in your opinion, to attribute this crime to this existence of MySpace and YouTube?

I think about this often lately.

Does the web perpetuate violence and bad behavior….or does it merely make it transparent?

I survived middle school and high school in the eighties, and I can tell you that incidents like this one were not uncommon. However, no one video-taped them. No one intended to post them on You Tube. And? No one ever got caught.

Just thinking.

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