A month ago I heard the initiative on the radio To the cube of some young people who proposed help children harassed in the classroom leaning on social networks. I would have liked to develop the idea with its authors more and that they would have come to present it also to Peques and More. On the radio they commented that the application would have it ready after the summer of 2012 so if they are reading this or anyone knows that they know that have the doors open to comment on that project that I basically thought help children harassed in the classroom by offering advice, support, a lot of listening and a lot of capacity to develop self-esteem. Some details of your project can be read in The Information.
And apparently It is not so difficult to find cases of bullying or bullying in schools although trying it is difficult. Because students are not prone to comment to teachers or parents and because children are afraid of being seen as sneaks. So you have to look for other means to know what happens with the kids.
And so, the University of Wisconsin researchers They explain that they have developed a program that tracks Twitter for real intimidation evidence. Apparently more than 250 million public tweets are issued daily, probably worldwide, and the program is able to identify more than 15,000 tweets with intimidation details. In addition, and probably because of the ease of networking on Twitter, researchers are able to determine who was the aggressor and who was the victim.
Also with Twitter it is possible to draw maps to identify where it is happening, how often, which schools and which students are the most insistent.
The initiative of the University of Wisconsin seems most interesting and we must see how it evolves. There will be no lack of critical voices that talk about penalizing a tweet is excessive, so what you have to try is contrast or apply real-world identification methods. What is certain is that this information can be good to support decision making.
And what is also true is that if this application works it may have points in common with the one we were commenting at the beginning of the article and that it was a most promising Spanish initiative.
