...Merriam-Webster defines cyberbullying as, “the electronic posting of mean-spirited messages about a person (such as a student) often done anonymously” (Cyberbullying). Throughout the United States of America, there is little to no laws against cyberbullying. Most states believe making laws for punishing cyberbullies goes against the First Amendment. Victims of cyberbullying often resort to self-harm or even suicide. While social media can be an outlet for expressing one’s feelings or emotions, it can also lead to the death of victims or self-harm and in most states, there is little to no consequences on the bully. Only fourteen states actually force criminal penalties on those using the behavior of a cyberbully. Tennessee and Virginia are...
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...people of all ages have to the internet and various social media sites. Cyberbullying behavior should not simply be considered an inevitable part of school life and dismissed as a natural consequence of being a teenager. With little supervision, students are engaging in cyberbullying behaviors that are hostile; placing both the cyberbullying victim and the cyberbullying harasser at risk for negative social-emotional and academic consequences. Cyberbullying is the one of the latest issues to be defined by school districts and law enforcement. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary added the word cyberbullying in their 2004 revised edition: “the electronic posting of mean-spirited messages about a person (as a student) often done anonymously.” After interviewing 279 students (ages ten to 18) researchers Heidi Vandebosch and Katrien Van Cleemput further clarified the definition of cyberbullying in 2008. Their research identified specific communication patterns that led them to add that cyberbullying is not just a one time action, but rather “a part of a repetitive pattern of negative offline or online actions;” and the hostile actions are “intended to hurt (by the perpetrator) and perceived as hurtful (by the victim.)” (Vandebosch and Van Cleemput 500) Consistently, cyberbullying is viewed as hostile misbehavior. When considering whether internet access has actually increased the rate of cyberbullying, Heidi Gholamhosseini sought one expert’s opinion. A professor of Health...
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...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 Justice (DOJ), and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)...
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...Risky Business Argumentative Essay: Cyberbullying Draft and Bibliography Cyberbullying means sending insulting or threatening emails, texts, or instant messages directly to someone using a computer or cell phone. It means spreading hateful comments about someone through emails, blogs, online profiles, or chat rooms. It means stealing passwords and sending out threatening messages using a false identity. It means building a website targeting specific people. If there is so many ways to hurt people through technology, how come there is no laws or punishments for cyberbullying. Only recently the United States have been instating laws to help reduce cyberbullying. Even at that it is not enough these laws need to be strictly enforced by the government, and the people being held accountable for their actions. People argue the cyberbullying laws are a violation of the 1st Amendment, more specifically the freedom of speech and the freedom of expression. In Michigan, Joshua Mahaffey was 15, he and a friend created this web site in 2001. The website was called “Satan’s Web page” and according to Joshua it was created it for laughs. On the website listed “people I wish would die,” which listed names of several students at their schools. Then a parent notified the police about the site, it’s a threat and posed an infraction against the cyberbullying laws. Joshua was interviewed and admitted to creating and contributing to the website. Then he was sent to a local psychiatric...
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...overview of an increasing problem our nation is facing called cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the use of the Internet or other communication device to harass, insult or threaten someone. Cyberbullying is an issue that not only affects adolescents in the United States but all over the world. We should be concerned about cyberbullying because of the health concerns it can cause such as increased depression, suicidal thoughts, drug and alcohol use and decreased physical health. Also the fact that there are not many policies set up to prevent against cyberbullying is something for concern. Over the last decade research studies have been performed all over the world focusing on cyberbullying, who it affects and how it is affecting them. Throughout all the research one thing remains the same that something must to be done to prevent cyberbullying. There needs to be some type of standard when it comes to consequences for cyberbullying, as of right now it is just up to school administrators to set policies to prevent cyberbullying. If we had a nation standard as to the actions that need to be taken towards prevention and intervention in every school there would be a better chance that cyberbullying statistics would greatly decrease. “Laws should be put in place for extreme cases of cyberbullying and the local police should make an effort to investigate the crime and charge those responsible for committing extreme cyberbullying. The recommendation that I would make is the same that researchers...
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...of suicide” (Jaredstory.com). Not only does bullying affect the victim but the victim's family as well. Bullying is negatively affecting the United States today. One way Cyber bullying is negatively affecting the United States today is academically. “Cyber bullying is when a child, adolescent or young adult bullies, harasses or repeatedly threatens one of their peers electronically through email, instant messages, blogging, text messages and Web Sites dedicated to humiliating another child” (How Is Cyber Bullying Affecting Your Kids). Cyber bullying does not affect the child only personally but academically. A person with an unstable home will most likely not be able to focus on their work in the classroom. Stress is put upon that person and so they have many other things on their mind instead of their classwork. When writing papers, one may try to avoid using the computer, to keep themselves from getting hate emails, messages or tweets. “The person being bullied grades will start to lower, “because their lack of confidence will prevent them from contributing and asking questions in class”(How Is Cyber Bullying Affecting Your Kids). Cyber bullying can ruin ones social life, and future. It can lead to depression, and also suicide. Withdraw from friends and family. The second way Cyber bullying is negatively affecting the United States today is medically. “The...
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...Throughout the United States, the conflict between freedom of speech and internet safety is rapidly becoming more prevalent. As tragic cases of cyberbullying, like that of Amanda Todd, rise to the headlines of American newspapers, and centers of crime like the infamous drug website, the Silk Road, cause mayhem, governing bodies across every level of government seek a solution. The government is rapidly being forced to decide whether it must increase control, or let things continue as they will. But higher government control has the very real possibility of destroying free speech as we know it, and in the process, destroying the ethics that our founding fathers held so high. This pressing problem is visible in the trial of Michelle Carter,...
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...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 implications of that negative influence. How the technology of the Internet and social media use by adolescents causes mental health issues through cyberbullying, a negative and evasive ethical and social implication of technological use. Cyberbullying The term cyberbullying has been used more frequently in the past ten years, but what is actually considered cyberbullying? According to...
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...RESEARCH: CYBERBULLYING Members: Tapay,Daniel Breyton Reyes,Clark Lloveras,Marielle Sangalang,Maica Nchama,Julian Miguel Chapter I: Introduction According to Belsey (2004) "cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group that is intended to harm others" (Belsey, 2004). In 2006, the National Crime Prevention Council worked with Harris Interactive Inc., to create a study on cyberbullying. The study found that 43% of the 824 middle school and high school-aged students surveyed in the United States had been cyberbullied in the past year (cited in Moessner, 2007). The Pew Internet and American Life Project on cyberbullying conducted a similar study in 2006 which found that one out of three teens have experienced online harassment (cited in Lenhart, 2007). Pew also found that the most prevalent form of cyberbullying was making private information public; which included e-mails, text messages, and pictures (cited in Lenhart, 2007). The findings ofthe Pew research also indicated that girls are more likely to be part of cyberbullying than boys. Older girls, between the ages of 15 and 17, are the most likely to be involved in some form of cyberbullying, with 41 % of those surveyed indicating that they have been involved in some type of cyberbuUying (cited in Lenhart, 2007). Cyberbullying is different from traditional bullying due to the anonymity that the ...
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...Teenagers would usually prefer to learn from others through the social media (Goff, 2009). Similarly, social media is a powerful source of connecting all sorts of people around the world. By accessing social media, people would have the opportunities to meet those who share the same goals, beliefs and interest. Meanwhile, it also helps to stay in contact with friends and families around the world. Still, companies interact and build relationship with their customers through establishing widely used platforms such as Linkedln and Facebook. The two-way communication improves customer relationship more than just simply give away a business card of theirs (Wirthman, 2013). On the contrary, the misuse of social media leads to cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is using social media, such as Facebook, Twitter and email to spread rumours, send insults and obscenities messages to the target victims which causes psychological trauma. 43% of teenagers have been victims of cyber...
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...Effects of Cyberbullying to the youth A Research paper Presented to Mam Reusora, Milagros By, ROGA CHARISSE ANN R. B.S SOCIAL WORK – 3A Centro Escolar University, Manila School of Education, Liberal Arts, Music and Social Work Chapter 1 The Problem and Its Setting Introduction Internet is one of the most use technologies in the Philippines. Most of the people are engage in using internet for various reasons. Some of these reasons are searching, surfing, use as communication and some of the people uses Internet to bully someone. Since technology has been introduced to the world, it seems a new kind of bully has emerged. Cyberbullying. Bullying is not a new phenomenon and it has been well recognized as a common and serious problem in the society. Most of the teenagers has experience this type of problem or witness bullying. Cyberbullying is all known across the world. It maybe 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...
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...the topic even came up for consideration, but not anymore. Now, it is not uncommon for kids as young as 9 years old to be walking around with a smart phone in their hand. Smart phones are powerful handheld computers, which give complete unfiltered access to the internet. Having that kind of access is a tremendous responsibility. There are many advantages that owning a smartphone brings to our culture, but when it comes to children having access to their own, many disadvantages arise; therefore, any child under the age of 13 should not own one. Even though the first handheld cell phone was used in 1973, it wasn’t until 1984 that cell phones were made public. By 1990 there were 1,000,000 cell phone users. Cell phone usage in the United States has increased from 34 million to 203 million people in the last ten years. Most children own cell phones with full internet and text messaging access by middle school (Elizabeth Englander). Everywhere you go you can see a kid with a cell phone and they are using them for more than just making phone calls. About three in four (74%) of teens ages 12-17 are mobile internet users who say they access the internet on cell phones, tablets or other mobile devices. Cell phone ownership among teens has been stable since 2011, but smartphone ownership has grown considerably. Some 78% of teens now have a cell phone and almost half (47%) of those say they have smartphones. That translates to 37% of all teens who have smartphones by comparison...
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...internet. The advancements in technology have paved the way to social changes throughout the United States. Where would we be without cell phones, internet, the automobile, or electricity? Social changes happened with the implementation of this technology advancements. In the last 20 years there have been many technological changes. Personal computers are faster and more compact. Cell phones give their user Internet access just about anywhere you can access the cellular network. As a nation we have become almost chained to our cell phones and computers. A relatively new form of social media, crowdsourcing is when a services are needed and the ideas or information is spread to a large group of people. For instance, Kickstarter is a web-based company that helps to raise large amounts of money in a short period of time. Another use of the Internet and crowdsourcing happened in January 2010 when an earthquake devastated Haiti. Relief groups were able to take advantage of crowdsourcing efforts to get the medical aid, food, shelter, and rescue help that was needed (Introduction to Sociology, 2015, p. 493). Without the advancements that have been made to technology Haiti would not have received the help they did as quickly and the results could have been much worse. While the Internet can be used for good, it can also enable negative behaviors that can have devastating lasting effects. Cyberbullying can be more devastating than bullying because it never leaves the person alone. It creeps...
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...Cyberdeviance Herb Wilson Social Deviance April 24,2016 Table of Contents What is Cyberdeviance…………………………………………………………………3 Reference Page…………………………………………………………………………7 Cyberdeviance is a topic that is vast and interests me on many different avenues. The first being I have a preteen daughter who has both cognitive and social deficits that increase her changes of becoming bullied, and decreases her ability to comprehend and deal with these issues as they arrive. I hope to discover things that make my child more venerable as well as different ways to protect her and help her deal with the fall out when this happens to her. A great example of this was yesterday we were out shopping at a shoe store. A friend of hers voice texted her a nasty message, basically telling her how horrible of a person she is and that she hates her. It really made me think, this “friend” would never say these vile things to her face, why was it okay for her to say those things in a message? The only conclusion that I was able to come up with was that she felt protected by the anonymity of being online, when you don’t have to face the other person and actually see the hurt you are causing it is easier to hurt another person. Children growing up in this day and age are used to technology and the supposed annominity of being online, or texting. They are used to hurting people and moving on because that’s what society does right? I think that using sociological imagination will be helpful in writing...
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...Cyberbullying by Nicole M. Aune A Research Paper Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Master of Science Degree With a Major in School Psychology Approved: 2 Semester Credits The Graduate School University of Wisconsin-Stout December, 2009 ii The Graduate School University of Wisconsin~Stout Menomonie, WI Author: Title: Aune, Nicole M. Cyberbullying Graduate Degree/ Major: MS School Psychology Research Adviser: MonthlYear: Number of Pages: Dr. Amy Schlieve December 2009 29 Style Manual Used: American Psychological Association, 5th edition ABSTRACT A literature review of research pertaining to cyberbullying was completed. Findings indicate that cyberbullying is becoming more prevalent as students spend an increasing amount of time using technology that keeps them connected to people at all hours of the day. There are many different ways in which cyberbullies reach their victims, including instant messaging over the Internet, social networking web sites, text messaging and phone calls to cell phones. There are different forms of cyberbullying including, but not limited to, harassment, impersonation, and cyberstalking. It has been found that there are differences between not only the prevalence of cyberbullying between males and females but also the ways in which males and females cyberbully. Like bullying, cyberbullying is a serious problem which can cause the victim to feel inadequate and overly self-conscious, along with...
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