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18 Ontario School Library Association …continued from page 17 each chapter starts with a Purpose, followed by key Terms and Ideas, Your Media challenge, Mindset, Materials and Production steps. also available is a workbook containing line masters and assessment tools to guide students through to the finished product. What makes this resource so practical is the career advice supplied at the end of each unit in case students would like to pursue this line of work as a future profession. For example, the spotlight on Loyalist college's Radio Broadcasting Program briefly describes the courses which can lead graduates to jobs as announcers, copywriters, producers, sportscasters, and radio web managers. Project Media website: www.emp.ca/ projectmedia *** sticks and stones: defeating the culture of bullying and rediscovering the power of character and empathy Emily Bazelon, 2013 ISBN 978-0-8129-9280-9 Essential for primary and secondary teachers, administrators, parents, students Incidents of bullying and harassment are found at all levels of society, but seem to be especially serious when they involve our students. In her four-part book (Trouble; escalation; solutions; What Next?), Ms. Bazelon presents three well-researched case histories of teenage bullying, one of which led to the 2010 suicide of Phoebe Prince in south Hadley, Massachusetts. approaches in dealing with the problem vary from school to school and can result in court cases brought about by parents who want to protect their children, but encounter indifference or denial from school authorities who refuse to act responsibly. Bazelon's research shows that double standards go almost unnoticed. one bully said he'd "gotten suspended for calling his girlfriend a bitch," but it was proven in court that the same school "hadn't taken the necessary action to help" a gay student when he was harassed by the same bully. Bazelon devotes a whole chapter on the role of Facebook in facilitating bullying. one million of the twenty million preteens and teenagers who used Facebook in 2010 "were bullied, harassed, or threatened on the site. a Pew center survey from the same year found that 15 percent of teens between twelve and seventeen said they'd been harassed on a social networking site in the last twelve months..." By click on a button to report abuse, some two million adults and teenagers a week complain to Facebook after receiving hate speech, nudity, drug sales and solicitations for sex. However, FB's action or responses are rated from slow to non-existent. according to arturo Bejar, Facebook's Director of engineering in charge of designing a tool for dealing with bullying and harassment, "Facebook shouldn't be in the business of dictating and enforcing community norms. People should enforce their own norms." [...] "our goal should be to help people solve the underlying problem in the offline world." TingL_21.1.indd 18 13-08-08 2:50 PM