...today, a new outlet for bullies to target their victims formed: Cyber Bullying. Social media has contributed many positives to today's society, yet one of the biggest downfalls of the internet was the creation of social networking sites. Many can argue that the internet is not the only cause, yet it is very prominent in situations of cyber bullying incidents. School has been thought of to be a safe environment for students who receive education. Bullying and Cyber-Bullying is a problem that tends to undermine the learning ability of an individual student. Cyber bullying is described as a sort of method of intimidation targeted at youths who use or have the capability to access any electronic devices, said Courtney Stoel. Traditional face to face bullying has taken on a new direction into the world of technology. More social networking sites have the ability to choose the option to become anonymous which creates an outlet to cyber-bullying. Becoming anonymous creates more cyber-bullies since they tend to express what they have to say without acknowledging their identity which creates a safe place for the bullies themselves. As more of the youth in today's society have been affected by cyber-bullying, school performance is at an all time low. Technology is always a resource around people, causing an easy access to social media networking sites. In schools, many technology programs insist on using the computers and internet for research which can be used to do whatever a student wants...
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...Cyber bullying New technology benefits society in many ways, but also creates problems and ethical issues, namely those pertaining to cyber bullying. Merriam Webster defines cyber bullying as, “the electronic posting of mean-spirited messages about a person (as a student) often done anonymously.” The development and increased usage of communication and information technology has led cyber bullying to gain traction in society. Legislation and organizations are arising to deal with cyber bullying, a major issue that victims struggle with every day. Cyber bullies’ rhetoric includes, but is not limited to, physical threats, sexual remarks, hate speech, rumors, and slander. Cyber bullies employ various tactics to humiliate and defame their victims, both on a one-on-one level and through public settings. In the more private form, offenders directly insult their victims through intimidating and hostile messages. In the more public form, cyber bullying can include actions such as posting embarrassing or nude photographs of victims without their knowledge or permission. These photos are often adulterated to depict the victim in compromised or defaming poses. Cyber bullies also spread lies and rumors via texts, instant messages, and Facebook posts. Additionally, perpetrators often steal passwords to victims’ online accounts and post humiliating remarks while posing as the victims themselves. Various studies attest to the pervasiveness and severity of cyber bullying in society. The...
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...Cyber Bullying When one think’s of bullying, they think of a big kid picking on a little kid on the playground, or the type of bullying that has been portrayed by movies and books, however, bullying has grown beyond that and had changes to adapt to the technology we have today, cyberspace. Cyber bullying can vary from social media sites, texting, “sexting”, and emails. For those who are victims of cyber bullying, there is very little they feel they can do to end the cyber bullying. Cyber bullying has terrible effects on those who are victims of this type of bullying and often lead to serious actions. Bullying can be considered many different things depending on who is describing it, however, according to Google, bullying is someone who “uses superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants.” More specifically, cyber bullying is “the use of electronic communication to bully a person, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature” (Google). Those who bully may be seeking power, or a winning feeling and often times enjoy the attention they get from buying someone. It is also said that who bully others are usually individuals that have had a poor upbringing, were not shown any love growing up and are jealous, or were bullied themselves. Cyber bullying has many effects that are destructive to the individual or group being bullied. Victims who are affected...
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...Social Networks - Negative Impact Likes and dislikes are natural responses to the opinions of human beings according to the things that they are observing at the time and personal preferences. Problems occur when these personal preferences move from the realm of opinion into the realm of facts. The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of social networks to discover their potential negative effects on the users and society. The primary focus of this paper being Facebook, one of the biggest names in the industry. Opinion Summary Vanderbilt Photographs are a way to memorialize an event that was meaningful, stupid, or sometimes dangerous. People usually share their most cherished photographs with close friends, family, and significant others. This is no longer the case. With the birth of Facebook and the explosion of social networking, complete strangers are now considered close friends because they liked something on the user’s page, or they are friends of friends (Vanderbilt, ). The sheer weight of this phenomenon has reached beyond the social aspect to the business and legal aspect. It has gotten to the point that businesses now check the Facebook page of potential employees to find out if they are truthful on their applications or to simply find out the kind of person they are outside the interview room. When it comes to the law, Facebook photos are being used as evidence to either prove or disprove an individual's state of mind at the time of the incident...
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...Cyber bullying: Lurking behind the Screens. Mark Twain once said that “a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”. This means that while one is preparing to tell the truth, lies can invade both the conscientious and oblivious mind, and become impossible to uproot. A lie is at times more believable than the truth and under varying circumstances people are more willing to believe a lie. Cyber communications is the Millennia’s new mode of ‘travel’ so it is not surprising that negative correspondence would also develop via the online world. Today once a lie is uploaded, it is near impossible to take it back, and ‘the truth’ even if it is able to find its ‘shoes’ will forever share the same cyber space as the lie. With the advent of cyber technology, a bully can destroy an individual and their self-esteem along with families, relationships, and in extreme cases entire communities within seconds, with the click of a button. “Cyber bullying is the use of…electronic communication to [terrorize] a person or persons” (“Bullying in a Cyber World”), using messages of intimidation or aggression. These messages are transmitted through mediums such as computers, cell phones and, web-cams, and can be disseminated to the maximum amount of persons desired through cyber channels like chat rooms, emails and social media. They are meant to torment, threaten, harass, humiliate, embarrass, or otherwise target a person or group of persons (Shariff & Johnny...
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...Therefor it is not surprising, that cyberbullying or bullying through these new communication technologies is increasing. In order 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...
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...2012 Saving our Kids from the Bully Bullying has been around for as long as people have, if you asked around most people have some memory of a bully intimidating them or making fun of them. For most, bullying happened at school, but it can happen at any time in one’s life. Advances in the internet and technology have brought about some positive changes in our lives. However, in the technical world that we live in today with our kids having access to cell phones and the cyber social media, it has turned into a deadly form of bullying known as cyber bullying. Like traditional bullying, many people think that cyber bullying is not a big deal. Many feel that it is just a part of life that needs to be dealt with. However, cyber bullying is something that should concern everyone. There are far too many children suffering from the effects of cyber bullying and as a society we all need to take steps to ensure our children are safe. No child should have to face the type of harassment that causes them to suffer feelings of depression, isolation, low self-esteem, humiliation, anxiety, and thoughts of suicide. Cyber bullying has some rather unique characteristics that are different from traditional bullying: * Anonymity As bad as the "bully" on the playground may be, he or she can be readily identified and potentially avoided. On the other hand, the child who cyber bullies is often anonymous. The victim is left wondering who the cyber "bully" is, which can cause a great deal of...
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...Professor Brand English 251 12 July 2013 Social-Network Effects on Teenagers Social media is undoubtedly the life blood of most teenagers today. Young adults, especially in the 13-17 age groups are constantly checking messages, updating posts and sharing photos on online media. According to a study by Roiworld’s Teens and Social Networks in 2010, “… teenagers spend an average of 80% of their time on online sites and this figure grows every year” (Gallo 16). With such a huge following it has become necessary for research to be conducted on the overall effect of social media on teenagers everywhere. This paper aims to explore the positive and negative effects of social media on teenagers today. With the natural curiosity that most teenagers hold, they are naturally anxious to meet new people and possibly make new friends and contacts. Online social media provide the perfect setting to do exactly that. Teenagers are able to interact with people from all over the world. This serves to not only increase their general knowledge but it enables this generation to be more tolerant of cultures and beliefs that differ from their own. New technology including smart phones with video and photo capabilities, iPad and other tablets, and portable Wi-Fi docs have made the Internet infinitely more assessable (Wolak, Mitchell & Finkelhor, 2006). Although technology has been associated with many positive effects, cyber bullying, sexting and slut shaming among teens are detrimental...
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...Blog Post - Cyberbullying and what it’s doing to our teens! Unfortunately, bullying is alive and flourishing on the internet. Perpetrators of cyber-bullying are sometimes called trolls, ie people who engage in prolonged & often systematic attacks on people via blog comments, internet forms and social media sites. Such behavior is cruel, unnecessary and quite simply wrong. However, stopping it is not a simple matter, because those who bully enjoy the drama and feeling of power it gives them. Also, they are likely to find valid-sounding reasons to justify their behavior and may even not be aware that what they are doing is actually bullying. I’ve been doing some reading on teen cyberbullying and it’s just quite crazy how kids can treat one another! Most teens are so distraught by the bulling and just don’t know what to do or who to turn to that they end up taking their own lives. The question that everyone wants to know is how can we stop teen bulling? People who bully live in unpleasant mind states like anger, hatred, jealousy, fear etc. They are unhappy, upset or, at the least, ill at ease in some way. Just like us, they want to be happy, but they aren’t. Imagine how it would be to live with a mind and heart full of the kind of vitriol Trolls exhibit? Ouch. Not a good feeling, right? So how can teens put a stop to them and the way they treat others? First we need to accept that we can’t control the bully’s behavior, but we can control how we let it affect us. Normally, we...
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...of power. It can include verbal harassment, physical assault or coercion and may be directed repeatedly towards particular victims, perhaps on grounds of race, religion, gender, sexuality, or ability.[2][3] The "imbalance of power" may be social power and/or physical power. The victim of bullying is sometimes referred to as a "target". Bullying consists of three basic types of abuse – emotional, verbal, and physical. It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as intimidation. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The UK currently has no legal definition of bullying,[4] while some U.S. states have laws against it.[5] Bullying ranges from simple one-on-one bullying to more complex bullying in which the bully may have one or more 'lieutenants' who may seem to be willing to assist the primary bully in his or her bullying activities. Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse.[6] Robert W. Fuller has analyzed bullying in the context of rankism. Bullying can occur in any context in which human beings interact with each other. This includes school, church, family, the workplace, home, and neighborhoods. It is even a common push factor in migration. Bullying can exist between social groups, social classes, and even between countries (see jingoism). In fact, on an international scale, perceived or real imbalances of power between nations, in both economic systems and in treaty systems, are often cited as some of the primary causes of...
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...coercion to abuse, intimidate, or aggressively impose domination over others. The behavior is often repeated and habitual. One essential prerequisite is the perception, by the bully or by others, of an imbalance of social or physical power. Behaviors used to assert such domination can include verbal harassment or threat, physical assault or coercion, and such acts may be directed repeatedly towards particular targets. Justifications and rationalizations for such behavior sometimes include differences of class, race, religion, gender, sexuality, appearance, behavior, strength, size or ability. If bullying is done by a group, it is called mobbing. "Targets" of bullying are also sometimes referred to as "victims" of bullying. Bullying can be defined in many different ways. The UK currently has no legal definition of bullying, while some U.S. states, including Oklahoma have laws against it. Bullying consists of four basic types of abuse - emotional, verbal, physical, and cyber. It typically involves subtle methods of coercion such as intimidation. Bullying has become such a problem in many places. How can we solve this problem? Bullying ranges from simple one-on-one bullying to more complex bullying in which the bully may have one or more "lieutenants" who may seem to be willing to assist the primary bully in his or her bullying activities. Bullying in school and the workplace is also referred to as peer abuse. Robert W. Fuller has analyzed bullying in the context of rankism. A bullying...
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...[pic] MASTER OF MANAGEMENT CORPORATE GOVERNANCE, ETHICS AND VALUES GSGM7253 TERM PAPER Issues and challenges in cyber ethic PREPARED BY: |MEOR NORULAZMI BIN MAT SALLEH |MD1409MD0030 | Contents Introduction 2 Literature Review 3 Recommendations 6 Conclusion 8 References 10 Introduction This article will highlight the issue and challenges in cyber ethic. It will cover general outlined the concept of cyber ethic and tries to relate it with the globalization of internet which was a way of living nowadays. Have you noticed that the whole world is now watching the same movies, listening to the same music and reading the same books? Of course not 100%, but the majority of the people on the planet do it the same thing as mentioned above. Why these activities happen, whereas they live not at the same location or place? This is what we call it as internet culture. Since the 1990’s, the Internet has a revolutionary impact on our culture. People around the world, start to use communication by instant messaging, electronic mail, interactive video call. Also, watching a movie, discussion and shopping they're using a World Wide Web or website. Today, internet become part of living. I define frequent use of the Internet as...
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...belittling another human being. It is a social ill with a price, that has multiple forms, and affects up to 86% of teens regularly (Coloroso). Kathiann Kowalski, author for Current Health, has characterized bullying as a repeated aggressive behavior that has not been aroused by anything, just sheer meanness. It is a shape of intimidation, which is devised to threaten, frighten, or coerce someone. In order to suppress the bullying problem, it is first important that educators, counselors, parents, and students know the characteristics of a bully. This can at times be difficult, as many simply assume that because they might not see bullying happening explicitly on a large scale, that it doesn’t happen, or at least, ‘not at my school.’ But the statistical reality is that the size of school, setting, and even racial composition have little to nothing to say about the capacity for bullying to occur-- in essence, bullying is an “equal opportunity torment” to quote Education World writer, Colleen Newquist. The precise definition of a bully as defined by educational leader and bullying prevention expert, Dan Olweus, is “one who attempts to intentionally inflict injury or discomfort on another person.” But this serves as little basis for what concerned people should look for in individuals who may be engaging in bullying behavior. To start, boys do more bullying than girls, often driven by a “need to feel power and control” (Banks). Bullies tease, taunt, threaten, physically beat,...
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...Neyva Hernandez Jeffery Runyon ENG122 December 11, 2013 How Technology and Social Media Control Children and Adolescents Incredibly many people look at their phones throughout the day to see if they have a text-message, email, notification from social media, missed calls, or simply just because it has become an addiction. Technology has been changing over the years, and new apps and newer upgrades for electronic devices are being developed. High tech is advancing at an incredible rate. Consider how technology has expanded and evolved in the last ten years. How to manage this new phenomenon was not taught to us as children because it did not exist. Many children and adolescents born in the 20th century cannot imagine their lives without TV, smart phones, computers, tablets, or iPods and many other devices; youth have technology surrounding them. As a result, many of the young people raised in the world of technology do not have the same level of emotional skills of those ten or more years ago. Adolescents and children depend on the Internet more than on themselves. They no longer have the same innovativeness. Obesity and cyber bulling has increased over the years. More suicides have occurred. Those who are exposed to violent video games, movies and TV programs have shown aggression. However, parents do not realize how those devices affect their child’s development. Social media already affects many adults; now think about how strongly modern technology affects toddlers...
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...programs within the school that targets bullying. What programs exist and if they being taken seriously and if students feel safe at school. Is there any training for staff, students, and even people within the community? What is the definition of bullying? It is when someone is victim to or exposed to excess, repeated, unwanted negative behavior over a period of time. This can be defined as verbal, physical, social, psychological/mental, cyber bullying (social media), sexual, racial, visual (graffiti), and/.or emotional (stopbullying.gov, 2015). These are some of the issues that can arise at a school with such diversity and due to its location. When it comes to school safety and prevention of violence, ROCS is pretty much on task and is prepared to provide information to staff, students and parents. Like many of the schools in Stockton, the front doors are locked and visitors must be buzzed in. They must also sign in as well. For the staff members there is a Disaster Plan Manual that is set into place in each room of the building. It discloses information of what to do in case of an emergency. Such as electric failure, and even school shooting. Bullying has become a serious issue because of shooting incidents like that of the Columbine High School shootings in...
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