Extreme Mean
Ending Cyberabuse at Work, School, and Home
From one of Canada's foremost investigative writers, a groundbreaking exposé on the motives and machinations behind cyberabuse -- tormenting, trolling, harassment, cyberbullying, stalking, and sexual extortion -- and the toll it is taking on children, youth, and adults around the world.
Each week our news broadcasts, newspaper headlines, Twitter feeds, and Facebook timelines are dominated by stories of cyberbullying and other digital abuse. This isn't the playground teasing and name-calling of generations before the Internet. This new abuse's unique characteristics--anonymity, permanence, and viral audience--can relentlessly exacerbate the humiliation, pain, and danger of its victims.
Ugly rumours that once snaked through school hallways and around the office water cooler are now delivered at lightning speed to the world, while sexual extortion and revenge-porn…
$22.00
August 25, 2015
PAULA TODD is an investigative journalist, lawyer and the bestselling author of EXTREME MEAN: Ending Cyberabuse at Work, School, and Home, which reveals the real reasons adults, youth and kids torment, harass, stalk and sexually extort online, along with the solutions. She became the first journalist in Canada to break news in an e-book with Finding Karla: How I Tracked Down An Elusive Child Serial Killer and Discovered a Mother of Three. She spent more than a decade as a full-time reporter with the Toronto Star, and another decade-plus hosting news programs at CTV and TVO. A frequent speaker and educator, she is a broadcast and digital media professor, and the Chair of Digital Issues for Canadian Journalists for Free…
