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Financial Post, 91˿Ƶ Reporter - Facebook awards 91˿Ƶ students digital citizenship research grant

Published: 13 February 2012

A group of 91˿Ƶ students are among the first recipients of a new Digital Citizenship Research Grants program developed by social networking giant Facebook Inc.

On Monday, Facebook announced that Define the Line, a bilingual website maintained by a group of education and law students at 91˿Ƶ, was one of four groups that will share a $200,000 research grant aimed at making the Internet a better place for young people. Define the Line was created by a team led by Dr. Shaheen Shariff, an associate professor at 91˿Ƶ, whose research focuses on youth and digital media.

The site is designed to help combat cyberbullying and to develop tools that help “enhance responsible digital citizenship.”

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