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Cyber Education News

December 2009 Internet Safety Coalition makes Sub Award to CSEI to Join United States Department of Justice Grant Project to launch Woogie World Cyber Safety security ethics education.

September 24, 2008 Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, "ISTTF Meeting - Online Abuse and Crime by Youth" Internet Safety Technical Task Force open meeting, September 24, Harvard Law School Online Abuse and Crime By Youth: Results from the RIT Survey of Internet and At-risk Behaviors.

September 12, 2008
13 WHAM News, "RAW VIDEO: Interview with RIT's Dr. Sam McQuade on Youth and the Internet," by 13WHAM.com

13 WHAM News, "Teens Trade Sexually Explicit Images - More Could be Charged," by Sean Carroll, 13WHAM.com

August 19, 2008
Symantec Corporation Media Roundtable, "Online Abuse and Crime Experiences of Youth and Young Adults" by Samuel C. McQuade, III, PhD

July 22, 2008
13 WHAM News, "Do Kids Tell Parents What Goes On Online?" - Article & Video

13 WHAM News, "Do Kids Tell Parents What Goes On Online?" - Video As aired on 7/22. RIT study shows that kids still hide a lot of what happens online from their parents, by Liz Medhin.

July 17, 2008
RIT News & Events, "New Research reveals latest Internet predators are often 'close to home'" Study illuminates the issue of cyber crime abuse and victimization, by John Follaco.

July 15, 2008
USA Today, "Columnists' opninions: Bullying's day in court" USA Today columnist, Jonathan Turley, sites RIT study in an opinion piece on cyber bullying.

June 22, 2008
Canandaigua Daily Messenger, 'What you don't know can hurt your kids.' - An editorial commending the research conducted by RIT and The Cyber Safety and Ethics Initiative, by the Daily Messenger editorial board.

June 20, 2008
Rush-Henrietta Post, 'Survey shows students as victims and perps of cyber crime.' - A recent survey shows cyber crimes against children are more likely to be conducted by a fellow student than an adult, by Dan Goldman.

June 18, 2008
Democrat and Chronicle, 'RIT Study: Many Middle Schoolers Commit Crimes Online.' - Middle schoolers are more likely to be the perpetrators of cyber crimes than the victims, by Kate Perry.

WROC-TV, FOX Rochester, 'Cyber crime & children.' - There's startling new information about cyber crime in our area that says children are using technology to prey on friends and classmates, by Jecoliah Ellis.

WXXI, 'RIT Cyber Bullying Study Finds Most Cases are Personal.' - A study of cyber bullying finds that the majority of children who are bullied online are being victimized by someone they know personally, by Bud Lowell.

RIT University News, 'Startling New Reality of Cybercrime Revealed in RIT Research.' - Survey of more than 40,000 Rochester area youth reveal that victims of cyber crime usually know the perpetrators.

RIT University News, 'Tips for Parents to Help Keep Their Children Safe Online.' - The Cyber Safety and Ethics Initiative offers tips for concerned parents who want to help protect their children on the Internet.

RIT University News, 'Key RIT Cybercrime Research Findings.' - A summary of major findings from the survey of more than 40,000 Rochester area youth.

June 13, 2008
Canandaigua Daily Messenger, 'Cyber survey: Kids in harm2s way.' - A recent survey of Canandaigua students says children as young as Kindergarten surf the Internet and some are exposed to things that make them uncomfortable, by Michele E. Cutri-Bynoe.

March 17, 2008
RIT University News, Time Warner Cable Joins RIT's Cyber Safety Efforts - Gift leads to relaunch of Web site -- featuring tools for kids, parents, educators and businesses.

October 1, 2007
Democrat and Chronicle, Internet abuses by kids common - Expert's survey in local schools finds bullying, other misconduct, by Bennett J. Loudon

September 7, 2007
WXXI's Need to Know, Rochester's news magazine, interviewed Dr. Sam McQuade (see the Flash video) about cyber safety and the upcoming district student survey. There is a transcript available.

May 2, 2007
Democrat and Chronicle, RIT aims to protect kids in cyberspace -Survey hopes to ease dangers in computer world for area kids, by Matthew Daneman

February 23, 2007
Proposals Target Online Predators - Time Warner R-News Channel 9 Schumer wants to protect children from online predators - WROC-TV 8

WHAM TV 13. Channel 13 covered the news story about cyber safety and the upcoming school district student survey.  Channel 13 interviewed Dr. McQuade.  Click here to download the news story in pdf.

Democrat and Chronicle.  Click here to download the news story in pdf format. The School Role in Internet Safety and Education (Oct 2006)


Recent CSEI Presentations

(McQuade, 2009). Meeting Increasing Challenges and Expectations of Youth Online. National Conference of the Natioanal Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO). October 27: Austin, Texas.

(McQuade, 2008). Contemporary Digital Youth Culture: Implications for Educational Research. Family Online Safety Institute National Conference. December, 11: Washington, DC.

(McQuade, 2008). Online Abuse and Crime Involving Youth: Policy Implications of Contemporary Digital Youth Culture. Executive Policy Forum on Cyber and Electronic Crime, National Governors Association. September, 8: Arlington, Virginia.

(McQuade, 2008). Emerging High Tech Crime By and Among Youth: Implications for Intelligence Gathering and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection. Presented at the Symposium on Cybercrime, co-sponsored by the National Intelligence Council and Bureau of Intelligence and Research (US Department of State). June 2: Washington, D.C.

(McQuade and Sampat, 2008). Computer-enabled Crimes by Adolescents: Implications for Safe Network and Campus Environments. Presented at the Fifth Annual Safe School Initiative Seminar of the U.S. Department of Secret Service and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. March 10: Buffalo, New York.


Publications

McQuade, Samuel C. (commissioned for 2011 manuscript). Cybercrime: Issues, Cases, and Responses. Book set of six discrete volumes totaling 750,000 words. Rowman and Littlefield: Lanham, MD.

McQuade, Samuel C., Colt, James P. and Gentry, Sarah E. (commissioned for 2010 manuscript). Cyber Bullying: A Reference Handbook. (ABC-CLIO: Santa Barbara, CA).

McQuade, Samuel C., Colt, James P. and Gentry, Sarah E. (commissioned for 2010 manuscript). Living with the Internet. Chelsea House: New York, NY.

McQuade, Samuel C., Colt, James P. and Gentry, Sarah E. (commissioned for 2010 manuscript). Cyber stalking and cyber bullying. Chelsea House: New York, NY.

McQuade and Gentry (commissioned for 2010 manuscript). Internet Addiction and Online Gaming. Chelsea House: New York, NY.

McQuade, Samuel C. (commissioned for 2010 manuscript). Online and Electronic Gaming: Fun, Abuse, Compulsion and Crime. Greenwood/Praeger: Westport, CT.

McQuade, Samuel C. (2009). Cybercrime. Chapter 14 in, Michael Tonry (Ed) Handbook of Crime and Justice. Oxford University Press: Cambridge.

McQuade, S.C., Colt, James P. and Meyers, Nancy B.B. (2009). Cyber Bulling: Protecting Kids and Adults from Online Bullying. Greenwood/Praeger: Westport, CT.

McQuade, Samuel C. (2009). The Encyclopedia of Cybercrime. Samuel C. McQuade III (Ed). Greenwood/Praeger: Westport, CT.

(McQuade, Samuel C., 2006). Understanding and Managing Cybercrime. 11 Chapter, 500,000+ word textbook. Boston: Allyn & Bacon.


 

Dr. Sam McQuade, CSEI Founder

"There is nothing more important today than teaching youth on how to be safe and responsible while using the Internet and mobile devices."


Mission:

The mission of the Initiative is to improve cyber safety, security and ethics at the K-12 level, as well as for teachers, parents, employers and other members of the community. This will be achieved through a comprehensive research program along with Internet safety, information security and cyber ethics education and training.

 

 



 
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