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Cyberbullying is bullying that takes place over digital devices like cell phones, computers, and tablets. Cyberbullying can occur through SMS, Text, and apps, or online in social media, forums, or gaming where people can view, participate in, or share content. Cyberbullying includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else. It can include sharing personal or private information about someone else causing embarrassment or humiliation. Some cyberbullying crosses the line into unlawful or criminal behavior.

How to Help Kids Deal with Cyberbullying from the Child Mind Institute

Prevent Cyberbullying: Be Aware of What Your Kids are Doing Online

Fight Cyberbullying and Other Mean Online Behavior

Children of all ages use tablets, phones, computers, and other devices to play games, do homework and watch videos. According to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), the average child spends seven hours a day in front of screens. That's more than twice the amount of screen time recommended by the AAP.

11 Parental Control and Monitoring Apps - Parents Magazine

Sextortion is a form of child sexual exploitation where children are threatened or blackmailed, most often with the possibility of sharing with the public a nude or sexual images of them, by a person who demands additional sexual content, sexual activity or money from the child. 

Click here to learn more from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Media refers to all electronic or digital means and print or artistic visuals used to transmit messages. Literacy is the ability to encode symbols and synthesize and analyze messages. Media literacy is the ability to encode and decode the symbols transmitted via media and synthesize, analyze and produce mediated messages.

Key Questions to Ask When Analyzing Media