Dr. Shaheen Shariff of the Department of Integrated Studies in Education is author of the new publication Sexting and Cyberbullying: Defining the Line for Digitally Empowered Kids from Cambridge University Press.
Director of McGill’s Define the Line research program, Dr. Shariff has become internationally known for her expertise on societal, legal and policy issues relating to social media usage by youth. A recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for her contributions to Canadian public policy, her work was recently recognized with Facebook’s Digital Citizenship Research Grant. Her research is grounded in the study of law as it impacts education, public policy and digital citizenship.
“Directed at policy makers, legislators, educators, parents, members of the legal community, and anyone concerned about current public policy responses to sexting and cyberbullying, Sexting and Cyberbullying: Defining the Line for Digitally Empowered Kids examines the lines between online joking and legal consequences”, writes Cambridge Books Online. “It offers an analysis of reactive versus preventive legal and educational responses to these issues using evidence-based research with digitally empowered kids. Shaheen Shariff highlights the influence of popular and “rape” culture on the behavior of adolescents who establish sexual identities and social relationships through sexting. She argues that we need to move away from criminalizing children and toward engaging them in the policy-development process, and she observes that important lessons can be learned from constitutional and human rights frameworks.
She also draws attention to the value of children’s literature in helping the legal community better understand children’s moral development –and the judicial approaches and biases in assessing children’s culpability– and in helping children clarify the lines between harmless jokes and harmful postings that could land them in jail.”
Dr. Shariff has collaborated with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), UNESCO’s International Institute for Educational Planning, Stanford University Law School’s Centre for Internet and Society (CIS), Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), and Kids Help Phone. Granted their letters patent by King Henry VIII in 1534, Cambridge University Press is recognized as the world’s oldest publishing house.
For more information, or to purchase Sexting and Cyberbullying: Defining the Line for Digitally Empowered Kids, please visit Cambridge Books Online.
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