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Friday, August 10, 2012
by Michael Loatman
Social media website YouTube appears to be the video-sharing platform of choice for at least one federal agency, which is requiring all entrants to an anti-bullying video contest to use YouTube for submissions in lieu of sending DVDs.
The Health Resources and Services Administration's Maternal and Child Health Bureau, part of the Department of Health and Human Resources, Aug. 7 formally announced the "Stop Bullying Video Challenge." The contest asks students between the ages of 13 and 18 to submit videos that raise awareness of bullying issues and suggest concrete steps youth can take to prevent bullying.
The submissions also must display the agency's website–www.stopbullying.gov–at the end of the video.
Teens participating must submit a video to YouTube, mark it as a private, and assign it to the username "stopbullyinggov."
The agency's website notes that online videos have become a modern way in which children and teenagers are "cyberbullied."
YouTube provides suggestions for how users can avoid cyberbullying on its website, and it notes that problematic videos can be deleted and blocked using the company's Help & Safety Tool.
Copyright 2012, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
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