Internet Addiction, Sleep Deprivation, or ADHD? With the diagnosis of ADHD on the rise in American teenagers, there is a risk of mislabeling teens with ADHD when the cause of their inattentiveness and falling grades may be related to something else entirely—like anxiety, family issues, or their media-infused lifestyle. This misdiagnosing was especially striking to me with a sixteen-year-old girl named Joy, whose family came to consult me a few months ago.
Up until last year, Joy was a straight A student. All of her high school classes were either honors level or Advanced Placement (AP). But in the fall of her junior year, Joy seemed to lose her motivation to do well in school. Article continues after advertisement The psychiatrist prescribed first Zoloft then Wellbutrin for Joy, hoping to find a drug that would help her depression. After five months, there was still no improvement in Joy’s symptoms. My first question to the family was to ask when Joy’s depression began. Copyright Marilyn Wedge, Ph.D. Source: ADHD. Copyright infringement. Illegal usage of copyrighted works Copyright infringement (at times referred to as piracy) is the use of works protected by copyright without permission for a usage where such permission is required, thereby infringing certain exclusive rights granted to the copyright holder, such as the right to reproduce, distribute, display or perform the protected work, or to make derivative works.
The copyright holder is typically the work's creator, or a publisher or other business to whom copyright has been assigned. Copyright holders routinely invoke legal and technological measures to prevent and penalize copyright infringement. Estimates of the actual economic impact of copyright infringement vary widely and depend on other factors. Nevertheless, copyright holders, industry representatives, and legislators have long characterized copyright infringement as piracy or theft – language which some U.S. courts now regard as pejorative or otherwise contentious.[1][2][3] Terminology[edit] "Piracy"[edit] 35 Startling Internet Piracy Statistics. Have you ever noticed how easy it is to commit piracy on the Internet today? From bootleg movies to P2P file sharing sites, sometimes piracy happens without intention. On the other hand, there are a lot of pirated files that are viewed and shared on a daily basis on purpose. 33% of the video streams on which YouTube displays advertisements are of videos that are uploaded by fans without permission.
Internet Piracy Some of the most popular films and music that are created today in studios are available in pirated versions on the Internet today. Although viewing an online stream of a movie might seem legal because there are no actual downloads taking place at first, the fact remains that users are able to access copyrighted content for free when it is not intended to be free. This makes it piracy. Internet piracy is not a victimless crime. Everyone Is Doing It Just because everyone is doing something doesn’t mean that it is the right thing to do. Internet Piracy Is In Every Sector of Industry. 4 Ways to Protect Your Online Reputation. WikiHow is a “wiki,” similar to Wikipedia, which means that many of our articles are co-written by multiple authors.
To create this article, 15 people, some anonymous, worked to edit and improve it over time. This article has also been viewed 82,582 times. Categories: Featured Articles | Reputation In other languages: Español: proteger tu reputación en Internet, Italiano: Proteggere la Tua Reputazione Online, Русский: защитить свою Интернет репутацию. Manage Your Online Reputation. Cyberbullying. For the Wikipedia guidance essay, see Wikipedia:Cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the use of Information Technology to harm or harass other people in a deliberate, repeated, and hostile manner.[1] According to U.S.
Legal Definitions, Cyber-bullying could be limited to posting rumors or gossips about a person in the internet bringing about hatred in other’s minds; or it may go to the extent of personally identifying victims and publishing materials severely defaming and humiliating them.[2] With the increase in use of these technologies, cyberbullying has become increasingly common, especially among teenagers.[3] Awareness has also risen, due in part to high profile cases like the Suicide of Tyler Clementi.[4] Definition Legal definition Cyberbullying is defined in legal glossaries as Examples of what constitutes cyberbullying include communications that seek to intimidate, control, manipulate, put down, falsely discredit, or humiliate the recipient. Cyberbullying vs. Methods Used In Gaming. Cyberbullying - National Bullying Prevention Center. Just as the use of technology itself has evolved, so has the ability to bully.
Bullying, once restricted to the school or neighborhood, has now moved into the online world. Bullying through the use of technology is referred to as “cyberbullying.” Cyberbullying is the use of technology to repeatedly and intentionally harass, hurt, embarrass, humiliate, or intimidate another person. As adults, thinking back, it was just a generation ago that kids and teens were asking their parents for a phone in their room — maybe even one with a separate line or three-way calling — so they could easily and somewhat privately connect with more friends. Today, a kid or teen’s desire to connect with friends has not changed, but the options for doing so have grown tremendously. Children are not only asking for their own tablets, gaming devices, and mobile phones at a younger age, they also want access to popular social media sites, and the ability to engage in online games and share information.
Persistent. Psychology of Cyberspace - The Online Disinhibition Effect. On the other hand, the disinhibition effect may not be so benign. Out spills rude language and harsh criticisms, anger, hatred, even threats. Or people explore the dark underworld of the internet, places of pornography and violence, places they would never visit in the real world. We might call this toxic disinhibition. On the benign side, the disinhibition indicates an attempt to understand and explore oneself, to work through problems and find new ways of being. And sometimes, in toxic disinhibition, it is simply a blind catharsis, an acting out of unsavory needs and wishes without any personal growth at all.What causes this online disinhibition? What is it about cyberspace that loosens the psychological barriers that block the release of these inner feelings and needs? You Don't Know Me (dissociative anonymity)As you move around the internet, most of the people you encounter can't easily tell who you are.
Six Causes of Online Disinhibition. The online disinhibition effect has cost people their jobs, their income and their relationships, yet many are still oblivious to it. The first famous case of someone allegedly losing their job from indiscreet remarks made online was in 2002. Heather Armstrong, author of the blog ‘dooce‘, claimed she was fired after her colleagues discovered she’d been lampooning them online. In internet terms getting fired for a blog rant is ancient news; to make the headlines now your indiscretions have to be on Twitter or Facebook. One recent example was this girl who was ‘Facebook fired’ after she said exactly what she thought of her boss on Facebook after a bad day at work. What she’d forgotten was they were Facebook friends, so the update would appear front and centre the next time he logged into Facebook.
She might as well have said it straight to his face and, for good measure, kicked him in the shins. 1. Online people feel they can’t be identified in the same way they can when they’re in public.