MSU Students Help Publish Book on Bullying

Students in Bloomfield Township resident Joe Grimm's advanced journalism class at Michigan State University spent the spring semester reporting on bullying and publishing a book about it.

The New Bullying focuses on how social media, new laws and school violence have turned bullying into something that did not necessarily exist 20 or even 10 years ago.

The project started on Jan. 9, when the semester began, in response to , which took effect Dec. 6. The law gives public school districts in Michigan until June 6 to review or implement their anti-bullying policies and to report those to the state. The on Thursday which was first implemented in 2007.

The book was planned to come out before that deadline and took just 101 days from the class' first meeting in Jan. 9 until it was up for sale.

The 132-page book is available in paperback, for Nooks, Kindles, the iPads and iPhones. It is for sale on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google Play and iTunes.

Seventeen students wrote the book and a companion website, creating text, photos, video, graphics and a book cover. They also did the editing and formatting that allowed it to come out on multiple platforms.

During the semester, Michigan and the nation saw cyberbullying incidents, high-profile bullycides (suicides that came after alleged incidents of bullying) and . 

Published through a partnership between the Michigan State Journalism School of Journalism and David Crumm Media, LLC, in Canton, the book is available in paperback or e-book on Amazon.com.

The New Bullying explores how laws, lawsuits, computers and news coverage have changed bullying forever.  From band hazing to bullying in the workplace to bullying in schools and cyberspace,these MSU students detail the changes that have changed this age-old issue for their generation.