...the internet allows students spend more time being connected. With this cyberbullying is becoming more frequent. Texting, instant messaging and over the social networks are just a few ways that the cyberbullies can reach their victims. A few of the forms of cyberbullying are harassment, cyberstalking and impersonating their victim. Cyber bullying has become a serious problem amongst teens. The victim can begin to feel inadequate and self-conscious causing the victim to become depressed to the point of committing suicide. In the past the cyberbully had no consequences to their action. Two such cases are addressed in this paper. States are now passing laws to address this issue and making schools responsible for developing anti-bullying policies. Cyber bullying- Should Schools be held responsible Matt was on both the Citizenship and Honor Rolls in Middle School. Voted by his eighth grade classmates to have the best smile, the best personality, and most likely to become an actor (Eppling, 2006). Taylor was a soccer player, a soloist in the school choir, and on the volleyball team. Although she was taller and a little larger than others her age she was beautiful. These are just two real examples of teens that were bullied to the extent of finding life too hard to continue on. With social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram, public bullying has emerged. This is known as cyberbullying and has become a controversial issue. Who is responsible...
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...unnoticed but cyberbullying can be harmful and sometimes can be fatal. As a result, some took their own life because of being stressed or depressed due to cyberbullying. The reason why I conducted this research is, it caught my attention and it is wide range of topic today. And is because I believe it is a very important problem that people need to know about, for them to understand how bad cyberbullying is. Another reason why I choose this topic is because I want to know what the victim feels about, what are the reasons of the bullies why are they doing this kind of nuisance. And of course, to help our country lessen this kind of problem. The subject of the study are the students of Centro Escolar University, Manila and random people who are using the Internet ranging from 15 years old and above. The goal of this study is to collect information on how cyberbullying affect their daily lives. This research aims to dig more information to help explain the complex and...
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...Essay One; HUMN 344 698 Essay One; HUMN 344 698 08 Fall 08 Fall Introduction Over the last decade, rapid technological advances affect every aspect of human life. Significant the most prolific technological advancement is the introduction of the worldwide web, more commonly known as the Internet. The Internet has provided mankind with luxuries such as; remote banking, distant learning for students, shopping for household goods and clothes, and countless other amenities. Therefore, just considering the technology of the Internet upon its own merits, the Internet demonstrates an evasive technology that is not only a luxury to some areas of industry it is an economic necessity. Also, considering the advent of social media vehicles such as; Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, technology enables anyone to have the potential to access to platforms for sharing their opinions. When one has access to a platform opinions and comments are created that can be both powerful and scathing for the good or bad. In extreme instances, becoming more commonplace, options and comments expressed can turn into threating harassment. In turn, many are experiencing a continuous pattern of “digital harassment” called cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is determined to be a new cause of fear in our society, especially in younger generations and adolescents. The narrative of this paper will discuss cyberbullying, its negative influence through the use of modern technology, and the ethical/social...
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...Cyberbullying Russel Bustamante Devry University Cyberbullying Rebecca Ann Sedwick, a 12-year-old girl from Florida, had a dispute with some girls over a boy in Crystal Lake Middle School. Multiple girls started threatening and bullying her in school which forced her mother, Tricia Norman, to take her out of school and be home-schooled instead. Little did she knew, the bullying carried over online. Rebecca was being cyberbullied with hate messages such as “Go kill yourself” and “Why are you still alive?” It affected Rebecca psychologically and emotionally to the point where she started searching questions online related to suicide such as “How many over-the-counter drugs do you take to die?” and “How many Advil do you have to take to die?” Eventually, Rebecca could not take it anymore and jumped to her death at an abandoned Cemex plant site on North Eastside Drive in Lakeland, Florida (Allen, 2013). Figure 1: A memorial for Rebecca Ann Sedwick Figure 1: This is the abandoned Cemex plant where Rebecca committed suicide by jumping off from one of the towers. Source: The New York Times: Girl’s Suicide Points to Rise in Apps Used by Cyberbullies (2013). Tragic stories like this needs to stop. This is an example of an unintended tragedy that can come out of technology in the hands of children. Everyone needs to be aware that cyberbullying is a serious matter and should not be ignored. Kids need to be educated about cyberbullying and know its consequences...
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...compared with 49 states, all except Montana, having laws to address bullying (Hinduja & Patchin, 2013). State laws primarily focus on cyberbullying that occurs on K-12 campuses, and each state requires school district to have policies against bullying. In a K-12 environment, cyberbullying that occurs off campus has been handed off to the parents. The expansion and use of communications technology, such as mobile and tablet devices, has allowed the bully to transform and follow his or her victim almost anywhere, at any time. Short story/example: White female student at Duke University. On May 2010, this female student developed a fake senior thesis as a PowerPoint presentation that described her sexual exploits with 13 male students at Duke University. In her fake thesis, she utilized each student’s real name and picture which, in some cases, showed the male student in his university athletic uniform. The female student emailed the fake thesis to three people she considered close friends, and the thesis was forwarded to others undoubtedly due to the salacious nature of the thesis (Seelye & Roberts, 2010). Eventually, the thesis ended up in the public domain on the blog Deadspin.com, YouTube, and other social media sites much to the embarrassment of the males and scorn of the student (Hill, 2010). 2. Cyberbullying prevention intervention in Taiwan. The article talked about a study with 30 students in the experimental group and 31 students in the control group. The...
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...Enjoy Social Media? Cyberbullies Do Douglas Spencer Hawaii Pacific University Writing 1200 David Falgout September 30, 2015 Enjoy Social Media? Cyberbullies Do There is increasing evidence that the Internet and social media can influence suicide-related behavior. The word “bully” can 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...
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...Technology’s Effects on Modern Life Modern technology improved many things such as schools, kids can now easily learn things through the aid of computers and internet; Science and medicine, scientist with the aid of new technology can now eradicate many diseases, and illnesses; Communication, social networking and blogging has improved quite a lot people all around the world can communicate with each other via Facebook, Twitter, Myspace etc.; Businesses, companies have become more profitable due to the help of advanced technology. Technology has single handedly increased the simplicity of the human race, by making it easier to connect with friends, aiding scientist to eradicate fatal illnesses and diseases. Most teenagers do not know the world without apps like Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. Teenagers use these apps to stay connected to friends as if they were thousands of miles away. Teens abuse these apps by constantly going onto those apps to check what their friends are doing. Thanks to the advancements of technology and science diseases like smallpox, and rinderpest are no longer a problem to worry about thanks to the great improvements in science and technology. Modern society cannot function without the use of a cell phones, computer, or a tablet. Everything now-a-days is digitized. There used to be a time where kids would just tease and joke around with each face to face but now kids go online and make fun of each other. Most people do not get why the evolution of...
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...trying to recover from a devastating breakup, but thrown into a world of cyber bullying with everyone at school making comments behind your back. Afraid to tell your parents, afraid to go to school, what do you do? What teens do not consider are the perils of sexting, psychological or criminal. Even though many teens are educated and taught right from wrong, they believe they are invincible and often fail to realize negative consequences to risky behavior. Why do teens not understand the treacherous aftermath of sexting? Teens should know there are the real consequential repercussions of their sexting behaviors. Figure 1: Teenage sexting statistics THE PERILS OF SEXTING 3 Figure 1: Teenage Sexting Statistics (2015) from studies done by The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, The Pew Internet & American Life Project, and the Cox Communications Teen Online & Wireless Safety Survey. Figure 1 (2015) depicts how prevalent teens are engaged in sexting, a majority of teens who sext, do it as an expression of their affection to another. Repercussions of sexting are complex in that it touches a number of spectrums that pose a multitude of challenges. Those challenges include...
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...both at school, on the way home from school, and in their very own homes via social media. Bullying of all forms has been tied to every single school shooting that has occurred over the last 20 years. Cyberbullying is an epidemic that is more widespread amongst adolescent females than males. The definition of cyber bullying, per the Merriam Webster Dictionary, is the electronic posting of mean spirited messages about a person (as a student) often done anonymously. It first became noticed in 2000. The different types of cyber bullying are exclusion, harassment, outing, cyber stalking, flaming, pseudonyms, and anonymity. Some examples of methods used in cyber bullying Cyberbullying.info are as follows: * Exclusion- In many cases, teenagers who don't have mobile phone are excluded from the group of teenagers who do. Girls have been found to be more likely to exclude others, boys tend to threaten with physical violence. * Harassment- bullies sending offensive messages targeted at an individual or group. Bullies often send repeated messages, or at odd times of the day and night. Some bullies even post their messages to a public forum - where everyone can see their threats - like a chat room or a...
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...Social networking powerful tool to promote good health (NaturalNews) The power of social networking to connect friends and help businesses connect with existing and potential clientele continues to be a driving force in today's world because of its incredible success. But how can social networking work to promote better health? The National Institutes of Health (NIH) believes that if people promote healthy lifestyles within their social networks, public health as a whole will significantly improve. Recent studies have shown that people's behaviors rub off onto their friends. Bad habits like smoking and overeating are contagious, say many researchers. But so are good behaviors like eating healthy, exercising and getting good rest, which is why NIH is offering funding to scientists willing to work on improving public health through social networking. "We've come to realize more and more that how people live and function in social networks is really important to health," explained Deborah Olster, acting director of the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research at NIH. Several researchers have already come up with creative ideas to promote better health through social networks. Dr. Nicholas Christakis of Harvard Medical School believes that creating artificial social groups around things like losing weight or eating better will help to encourage unhealthy people to improve their lifestyles. Christakis also suggests using social group "leaders" to influence their...
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...How not to be a victim of Cyberbullying Abstract: Bullying is a persistent willful act by an individual or a group to intimidate or hurt a weaker-than-bully victim. Cyber bullying in the social media is a very dangerous problem, especially because the major users of social networks are youngsters and adolescents who themselves are the top targets of conventional bullying. Bullying of any form causes deep scars in the psyche of the victim and at times may be even fatal. It is important to understand the causes, consequences of bullying which this report addresses. Introduction to the problem Bullying is generally an aggressive act intentionally designed to cause hurt, bodily/mental, to a person of lower power strata. Cyber bullying is a version of bullying in a digital world, where almost no bodily harm is met. In the United States, cyber-bullying is legally defined as “cyber-bullying could be limited to posting rumors or gossips about a person in the internet bringing about hatred in other’s minds; or it may go to the extent of personally identifying victims and publishing materials severely defaming and humiliating them” (Definitions.uslegal.com, 2015). Other definition of cyberbullying (Menesini & Spiel, 2012), has been more general not restricted to legal point of view, incorporating the electronic nature of the issue and specifically outlining the methods used for such bullying. Statistics indicate that between a substantial proportion (20-40%) of the children...
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...to put cyberbullies to a stop it is necessary to know, who these teenagers are, what they do, and why they bully. This research will introduce briefly the suicde of Megan Meier and the foundation what is set into effect today to prevent children and teenagers from being victims like her. Another young victim of cyberbullying was a local teen, Viviana Aguirre, an El Paso girl who was being bullied and picked on and her tragedy caught media attention. She received messages via Facebook telling her to kill herself. This impressionable girl was tormented mentally and her self-esteem was seriously damaged. She ultimately became a victim of cyberbullying which lead Viviana to commit suicide. There must be an end put to this. The reason for this study is to identify the threats and the environment that exists in our local high schools providing a dangerous basis for committing cyberbullying. By conducting a survey we intend to find our weak spots and therefore create solutions that will prevent cyberbullying in the future. Just the mere researching into this negative phenomena serves to promote awareness and rally the humane among us to do all that is in our power to prevent and expose cyberbullying. A Brief History of Bullying Bullying is defined as an unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children and teenagers that involve a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Both kids and teenagers who...
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...Research Paper on Digital Media and Self-Esteem Name Institution Course Date Introduction The study was about researching and analyzing whether the digital world boosts self-esteem. The research helps the effect of social media and the technological advancements that have occurred in the recent past on an individual’s personality and self-esteem. The study has incorporated digital ethnography and social networking analysis to critically examine and analyze the focus groups at hand. Social networking sites are an important aspect in the digital world and involve increased networking of existing and compound relations which goes beyond close friends. It is a conglomerate friendship and relations of friends of friends. Technology has made vast and significant changes in social dynamics. It tends to both affect people in the society by either making them comfortable and uncomfortable thus affecting their self-esteem (Meadows, 2003, P. 23). The process of transferring human contact into the world through creating complete, genuine and reliable social inter-connections seems to affect one’s self-esteem. These social groups can be sampled and used as focus groups which can be used as an analysis of behavior for the entire society as a whole. The study is important in addressing the behaviors of participants in a focus group relevant to the overall effect of the digital world relevant to the self-esteem of individuals in the society. The Existing Literature Review Technology, social...
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...BULLYING BOYS: AN EXAMINATION OF HEGEMONIC MASCULINITY IN THE PLAYGROUND Dr L Trickett1 ABSTRACT Violence between young men, particularly resulting from the emergence of a so called ‘gun and knife culture’, is currently subject to extensive media coverage in UK2. Alongside this there has been increased anxiety about both the scale and impact of bullying in schools (Cawson et al, 2002; Tyler, 2002). These issues form part of a more generalised concern about men and boys in Britain often referred to as a ‘crisis of masculinity’ (see Clare, 2000). This article examines findings from research with male respondents about their relationship with hegemonic masculinity (Connell, 1987, 1989, 1995, 2005) and bullying whilst at school and makes suggestions as to what can be done to tackle abusive behaviour amongst boys and young men. 1 Dr Loretta Tricket is a Senior Lecturer and researcher with the Nottingham Law School, Nottingham Trent University, UK. 2 See Lockhart, G; McClory, J and Qvortrup, M. (2007) Gun and Knife Crime in Great Britain, Policy Exchange, Research Note. Knife crime is a fact of life for teenagers (Bryony Gardon, telegraph.co.uk, 31 May 2008). 2 Introduction This article is in five parts. Part One outlines the theoretical background to the research. Part Two describes the methodology and the participants. Part Three discusses different types of bullying and the factors that were associated with them. Part Four discusses resistance...
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...Chapter 1 Case Study: Harmonix Embrace Your Inner Rock Star Little more than three years ago, you had probably never heard of Harmonix. In 2005, the video game design studio released Guitar Hero, which subsequently became the fastest video game in history to top $1 billion in North American sales. The game concept focuses around a plastic guitar-shaped controller. Players press colored buttons along the guitar neck to match a series of dots that scroll down the TV in time with music from a famous rock tune, such as the Ramones’ “I Wanna Be Sedated” and Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water.” Players score points based on their accuracy. In November 2007, Harmonix released Rock Band, adding drums, vocals, and bass guitar options to the game. Rock Band has sold over 3.5 million units with a $169 price tag (most video games retail at $50 to $60). In 2006, Harmonix’s founders sold the company to Viacom for $175 million, maintaining their operational autonomy while providing them greater budgets for product development and licensing music for their games. Harmonix’s success, however, did not come overnight. The company was originally founded by Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy in 1995, focused around some demo software they had created in grad school and a company vision of providing a way for people without much musical training or talent to experience the joy of playing and creating music. The founders believed that if people had the opportunity to create their own music, they would jump...
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