NetSE: Small: A Framework to Identify Relationships Among Students in School Bullying Resulting from using Digital Communication Media

校园欺凌已经成为一个严重的社会问题。在该项目中，加州大学欧文分校和KDDI研究与发展实验室的研究人员使用数字通信媒体（如手机、短信系统、电子邮件、博客）研究校园欺凌，并创建了一个基于社会学的网络框架，以帮助教师和家长确定学生中是否存在校园欺凌。本项目将学生之间的互动建模为一个关系网络，从数字传播媒体的使用统计中构建一个关系网络，并确定关系网络中是否存在可能表明学生欺凌的独特结构特征。该框架的设计基于两个关键假设：(1)校园欺凌在关系网络中施加了明显的结构特征；(2)在不检查侵犯隐私信息的情况下，根据数字传播媒体的使用统计数据构建了具有一定程度准确性的关系网络。该框架仅使用维护通信隐私的使用统计数据，并从公开可用的统计数据、由服务提供者收集并传统上仅在内部提供的统计数据以及框架直接监视的统计数据中提取此类使用统计数据。pi与社会学和社会心理学的研究人员合作，对框架中使用的假设进行实证验证，设计框架并对框架进行实证检验。该项目的智力优势在于考虑了交流的私密性，并将社会学和社会心理学知识应用于框架设计。该项目更广泛的影响包括促进对校园欺凌的理解，创建一个帮助教师和家长的框架，并与研究界的大部分人分享项目的发现和成果。

Bullying among students at a school has become a serious social problem. In the project, researchers at University of California, Irvine and at KDDI Research and Development Laboratories study school bullying using digital communication media (such as cell phones, short messaging systems, emails, blogs) and create a sociological based network framework to help teachers and parents identify whether school bullying may exist among students. The project models interactions among students as a relationship network, constructs a relationship network from usage statistics of digital communication media, and identifies whether unique structural features exist in a relationship network that may indicate bullying among students. The framework is designed based on two key hypotheses: (1) school bullying imposes distinct structural features in a relationship network, and (2) a relationship network is constructed with some degree of accuracy from usage statistics of digital communication media without examining privacy-violating information. The framework only uses usage statistics that maintain privacy of communication, and it extracts such usage statistics from those publicly available, those collected by and traditionally made only available internally to a service provider, and those that the framework directly monitors. The PIs collaborate with researchers in sociology and social psychology to empirically verify the hypotheses used in the framework, design the framework and empirically examine the framework. The intellectual merit of the project includes considering privacy of communication and applying sociology and social psychology knowledge in framework design. The broader impact of the project includes advancing understanding of school bullying, creating a framework that helps teachers and parents, and sharing of the project findings and artifacts with a large segment of the research community.