...Effects of Bullying and Cyberbullying Unit 9 Project Nisha Ostrander Kaplan University CM107 Professor Lori Martindale Effects of Bullying and Cyberbullying In the state of Florida, a 12 year old girl by the name of Rebecca Sedwick jumped to her death due to bullying in school and online. According to reports, this may not have been the only factor in her life to cause her suicide. Rebecca came from a single parent home and her mother was not a strong role model. Rebecca’s home and school life may have been the reason for her death. Rebecca was being cyberbullied by more than fifteen people (Dahl, 2013). Children who experience bullying, or bully others are most likely to have suicidal thoughts, attempt physical harm, and sadly successfully take one’s own life. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2007), suicide was the third leading cause of death among adolescents in 2004. Even though suicide rates have decreased 28.5% between 1990 and 2004 among young people, upward trends were identified in the 10 to 19 year old age group in 2003-2004 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007). Children today have if far worse than any other generation before them. The pressures they face today exceed society’s expectations. Bullying has been at the forefront for decades, this behavior may include physical contact. Like pushing, shoving, hitting, and stealing. This type of bullying makes the victim feel less than human. Psychological bullying shows...
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...secondary or college student – or anyone for that matter who has fallen prey, bullying; before the Internet and computers, this deviant act is a form of abuse and normally done by stronger person on weaker ones. The goal of bullying is usually to make the weaker person do something against his will, project power on someone else or simply hurt another because they are deemed different. Bullying has been a societal problem since people began walking upright and "as old as recorded history (“Cain attacked his brother Abel and killed him,” reads Genesis 4:8), but, unfortunately, its methods have evolved with technology. (Billitteri 2010)" The reasons and motivations for bullying, the victims of the act and the intended affects really remain the same. It’s only that the methods and techniques differ because of the use of technological tools and techniques. From the physical, bullying gave rise to cyberbullying or what "the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention labeled “electronic aggression” (Billitteri 2010)" where bullies who are now cyberbullies used the Internet to harass, malign, ridicule, threat, scare or intimidate their victims. Victims of bullies who cannot take the abuse often commit violent or suicidal acts on themselves because of their helplessness; victims of cyberbullies often resort to the same extreme measures. For example in Massachusetts, Phoebe Prince, a high school could not take the bullying of her six classmates and ended up...
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...Effects of Bullying and Cyberbullying Unit 9 Project Nisha Ostrander Kaplan University CM107 Professor Lori Martindale Effects of Bullying and Cyberbullying In the state of Florida, a 12 year old girl by the name of Rebecca Sedwick jumped to her death due to bullying in school and online. According to reports, this may not have been the only factor in her life to cause her suicide. Rebecca came from a single parent home and her mother was not a strong role model. Rebecca’s home and school life may have been the reason for her death. Rebecca was being cyberbullied by more than fifteen people (Dahl, 2013). Children who experience bullying, or bully others are most likely to have suicidal thoughts, attempt physical harm, and sadly successfully take one’s own life. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2007), suicide was the third leading cause of death among adolescents in 2004. Even though suicide rates have decreased 28.5% between 1990 and 2004 among young people, upward trends were identified in the 10 to 19 year old age group in 2003-2004 (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2007). Children today have if far worse than any other generation before them. The pressures they face today exceed society’s expectations. Bullying has been at the forefront for decades, this behavior may include physical contact. Like pushing, shoving, hitting, and stealing. This type of bullying makes the victim feel less than human. Psychological bullying shows in...
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...offline bullying either as a bully, a victim, or both (Bannink, Broeren, Van de Looij-Jansen, de Waart, & Raat , 2014). According to Hoff and Mitchell (2009), “bullying is unwanted, aggressive behavior among school-aged children and teenagers that involves a real or perceived power imbalance”. Typically, there are four types of bullying: verbal, physical, relational, and indirect. However, there is a new form of bullying that has become more prevalent among Internet users worldwide and has recently been subjected to intense media scrutiny largely due to a number of high profile and tragic cases of teen suicide, and that is cyberbullying. Hoff and Mitchell (2009) define cyber bullying as “intentional, aggressive behavior that is performed through electronic means such as PDAs, computers, tablets, cellphones, and etc.”. The most common places that cyberbullying takes place are chat rooms, emails, and social network sites. Furthermore, recent studies have indicated that cyberbullying is becoming increasing popular issue among older adolescents and college students (Mitchell, & Hoff, 2009). Cyberbullying is a new form of intimidation and harassment that is more challenging to identify than traditional bullying, but possesses an equally, if not more, detrimental effect on the victim. Cyberbullying has been discussed as being worse than traditional bullying in its consequences for the victim. The long-term impact of cyber bullying is greater than with traditional bullying. Digital...
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...Cyberbullying: The Era of Virtual Bullying Rae Black EDUC 16 Mt. San Antonio College November 4, 2015 Table of Contents Introduction …………………………………….. 3 What is Cyberbullying? …….………………….. 4 Effects on Family ……………………………….. 5 Effects of Cyberbullying on the Victim ……….. 6 Effects on School ……………………………… 8 Conclusion ……………………………………… 9 Reference Page …………………………………. 10 Introduction Young people today are using the internet more than ever. They view the internet and even more so the mobile phones as positive aspects of our society. The internet and mobile phones systems are the two biggest systems of communication which play a crucial role in our daily activities and development of identities. On the other hand, these same technologies are also often used negatively. Many children are the targets of bullying via the internet or mobile phones resulting in total confusion on the part of the "target". Very often, children are not able to understand that what they are going through is a form of bullying. As a result the previously safe environment of the internet is now becoming a source of confusion and anxiety. Cyberbullying follows children around the clock, and into the safety of their homes. Many times, kids are scared to tell their parents about cyberbullying, thinking they will be blamed, lose their Internet privileges, or that their parents will call the school or other parents, probably making the bullying worse. However, the pain...
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...It may be argued that bullying has been around before the development of social media. Nonetheless, the perceived anonymity associate with social media has allowed for an increase in both the participation and severity of bullying, as well as, leaving the victims of such harassments vulnerable at all hours of the day and night. The same dangers are present in both traditional and cyberbullying. However, the characteristics of cyberbullying have identifying markers to separate it from its traditional counterpart, such as, anonymity, larger audience and the disconnection of aggressor from victim (Casas, Rey & Ortega-Ruiz, 2013). Although studies show cyberbullying shares some similarities to traditional bullying, many researchers acknowledge that these two practices are not the same (Kowalski, & Giumetti,...
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...Anything Nice to Say, SAY IT IN ALL CAPS,” about the pain people can cause online. Watch Monica Lewinsky’s TED talk, “The Price of Shame,” in which she pleads that “public shaming as a blood sport has to stop.” Read the new book by Jon Ronson, “So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed,” chronicling people whose lives have been obliterated by Twitter mobs. And listen to Louis CK, the comedian who recently quit Twitter, saying, “It didn’t make me feel good.” Sure, the topic of cyberbullying is not new, but it feels different this time. The debate is happening everywhere: on radio shows, movies, media.books, talks, TV shows, blogs, book reviews and especially on social “I think this conversation has been going on for awhile, but it’s getting this particular kind of attention now because it’s coming to the fore that anyone can be a victim of that kind of shaming,” said Jacqui Shine, a writer in Chicago who has written about online shaming and minorities. “Women of color online, especially on Twitter, have dealt with harassment and bullying for years.” Women, Ms. Shine said, are often ridiculed on social media in ways that most men do not experience, sometimes being threatened with rape, having their addresses and Social Security numbers posted publicly, being sent death threats, having intimate photos uploaded and being called ghastly names. One notorious incident that alludes to this, and one of the main through lines of Mr. Ronson’s book, is the now well-known story of Justine Sacco, a former...
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...I believe that bullying is a lot more prevalent and common online. Cyberbullying occurs more frequently than bullying in a classroom because there are many more ways to bullying to happen on the internet. Bullying can take place through social media posts, social media messengers, and through social media comments to name a few. Social media sources bullying can occur on include Instagram, Snapchat, Twitter, and Facebook. Bullying can also occur in videos on Youtube, Vine, and live streams. Bullies have an abundant amount of ways to hurt, make fun of, laugh at, and call out someone using their online resources instead of having to do it face to face in the classroom. Bullying is more prominent and common outside of school than during school....
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...The Nature of Cyberbullying and Strategies for Prevention Nur Syaqirah binti Juri (2014132891) Abstract: This article is an article review from the original article that titled cyberbullying. In this article review, there are several sub topic will be covered. The topic comprised from introduction, discussion, recommendation and conclusion. For discussion it will covered about the definition, age and gender, type of cyberbullying, differences between cyberbullying and traditional bullying, student coping strategies .This review will provide another perception and will be an extra information about the nature of cyberbullying as whole. Keywords: cyberbullying, cyber, traditional bullying INTRODUCTION Cyberbullying is one of the crucial phenomena that always occur in our country, Malaysia. Cyberbullying can be defined as a bullying that takes place over digital devices such as cell phones, tablets and computers. Cyberbullying can...
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...Cyber bullying: the monster the internet created Bullying is a social problem that has existed ever since the gathering of people began. Bullying began as the survival and organization of people into groups became important as a way of organizing society. This method of survival has evolved in our daily lives as it can be reflected in our educational, economic and social systems. Bullying is an aggressive intentional and repeated behavior of a group or an individual against a victim who cannot defend him or herself. Bullying can be either physical or verbal although they are both equaling harmful. The forms of bullying has changed dramatically over the years. Originally it was limited to physical or verbal confrontations that involved two or more persons but with the increased availability of internet, bullying is being redefined. Cyber bullying is form bullying that involves hurting someone else by using information and communication technologies. Unlike physical or verbal bullying, cyber bullying is targeted to an unlimited supply of audience. Every age group is affected regardless of physical strength. Cyber bullying has been on the rise as part of the misuse and abuse of a resource such as the internet. Since more and more of our lives now take place online, this type of bullying can take up several different form. As written in Dr. Kate D. Simmons and Dr. Yvette P. Bynum of Auburn University Montgomery article, “cyberbullying: six things administrators can do” there...
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...Cyberbullying: What School Administrators (and Parents) Can Do ANDREW V. BEALE and KIMBERLY R. HALL Abstract: Technology has transformed the lives of adolescents, including the ways they bully one another. Variously referred to as electronic bullying, online bullying, or cyberbullying, this new method of bullying involves the use of e-mail, instant messaging, Web sites, voting booths, and chat or bash rooms to deliberately pick on and torment others. To combat cyberbullying, educators need to better understand the nature of it and be aware of actions that they can undertake to prevent cyberbullying in the schools. Keywords: combating cyberbullying, electronic bullying, online bullying n recent years, considerable emphasis has been placed on implementing bullying prevention programs in public schools (Colvin et al. 1998; Hernandez and Seem 2004; Pellegrini and Bartini 2000). Researchers and administrators have developed programs, written articles, delivered workshops, and given speeches focusing on the goal and importance of eliminating bullying behavior in schools. The difficulty, however, is that despite the major emphasis on prevention of bullying in schools, the problem persists. According to the results of the first national survey on school bullying, 74 percent of eight- to eleven-year-old students reported that bullying and teasing occurred at their schools (Nansel et al. 2001). To make matters worse, technology has escalated bullying to a new and particularly insidious...
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...Cyberbullying: the internet as a weapon Facebook. Twitter. LinkedIn. Myspace. YouTube. Flickr. Wikipedia. These are all social networking sites – and they’re all part of what is at present known as social media. In that respect, they’re various benefits of delivering social media in our fellowship. Such as, helping students with their educations, supporting the communities, improving relationships and establishing raw friends... Etc. But there are also negative consequences of social media, like posting everything about our personal lives, providing major distractions to people, and most importantly the increased use of social media has led to more suicides among today’s youth--a result of cyberbullying. Ever since the creation of social media had occurred there have been another type of bullying that’s in our everyday life. Today there is "Cyber Bullying," and although it is less physical than traditional forms of bullying, it can cause more devastating and long-lasting effects, As well, there are ways to help preclude this type of bullying and then that they would be less of a chance to induce these experiences in our spirit. Cyberbullying is another path to spread harm to other masses by employing the internet or other electronic communication devices to share embarrassing information about any other individual. The methods of cyberbullying are used in many forms, it can start by making up rumors about the victims, sending photos without their consent, making...
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...be traced back as far as the 1530s (Harper, 2015). The term “bully,” in it’s most basic logic, consist of two people, a bully and a victim. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention ("Bullying," 2015, p. 2), defines bullying as unwanted, aggressive behavior among school-aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Bullying includes actions such as making threats, spreading rumors, attacking someone physically or verbally, and excluding someone from a group or purpose. Bullying can occur in-person or through technology. Children are being exposed to social media and the Internet at an earlier age than ever before. Can being exposed at such an early age be the cause of cyberbullying? Since we are becoming a strictly technology centered lifestyle, young people are using social media technology, including cell phones, text messaging, and the Internet, to communicate with others in the United States and throughout the world at an earlier age than ever before. Social media technology has many potential benefits for youth. It allows young people to communicate with family and friends on a regular basis. However, social media technology also leaves your children vulnerable to become victims of cyberbullying. According to StopBullying.gov, a combined group of United States government agencies such as Department of Education (ED), Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of...
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...The dangers of cyber bullying have tentacles that reach all aspects of society. Teresa Pankey Com/172 December 22, 2011 Sheila Bassoppo-Moyo Being a victim of cyberbullying can be a common and painful experience, and can be hard to prove, but with proper knowledge one does not have to be a victim. A cyberbully can be someone the person knows, or thought they knew, and it can stem from anger, frustration, and revenge. A cyberbully can bully a person directly or by proxy. What exactly is cyber bullying? “Cyber bullying” is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. Cyber bullying usually occurs over several communications, unless the person communicates a death threat or a threat to inflict serious bodily harm. Sometimes after a minor starts a cyber-bullying campaign it can involve a sexual predator who is intrigued by the sexual harassment. The approaches used are controlled only by the child’s imagination and access to technology. A person can be a cyber-bully one-minute and a victim the next. Cyber bullying can sometimes be clear-cut. If someone leaves an overtly cruel text messages or cruel notes posted to a Website. They can also be less obvious, like impersonating the victim online or posting someone’s personal information or videos meant to hurt or if it...
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...which she opened up about years of bullying in school and online, previous suicide attempts and humiliation that lasted up until her death. The bullying online and in school drove her to depression, anxiety, drugs, alcohol, cutting and a suicide attempt with bleach. The authorities were called to her house on October 10th, 2012, almost a month after she released the video, Amanda Todd was found hanged in her home. The online bullying became to be too much that she decided she was better off dead, and she is not the only one. According to stopbullying.gov, 42 percent of teenagers with technology access report being cyberbullied over the past year. Out of all teenagers cyberbullied 20 percent have seriously thought about suicide, and 1 in...
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