...communication, like the internet and social media websites and cell phones, to bully a person, usually sending hurtful or embarrassing messages to them (Helen Cowie, 2013). Many of the articles that are going to be using for this paper talk about the different ways cyberbullying affects teens and young adults and also how internet privacy plays a role in cyberbullying. There is an article from Bob Sullivan (2013) that talks about how internet privacy is a complicated issue and there are criminals who break into websites to steal personal information. Since people can get someone else’s personal information, that makes it easier for a cyberbully to create a fake profile on a social media site, and make fun of and belittle someone else. Keywords: Cyberbullying, electronic communication, Cyberbullying and How Internet Privacy is Involved Traditional face-to-face bullying has been identified as a risk factor for the social and emotional adjustment of perpetrators, targets, and bully victims during childhood and adolescence. Bullies have now found a new way to reach their targets, by cyberbullying. They now can go on the internet and social media websites or use their cell phone. With the bully being able to do this they have the power to reach their targets at any time of the day or night (Helen Cowie., 2013). Teens should be able to go on their social media websites and have all their personal information private, that way no one can get that information and expose another teen. Because...
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...considered into the question, such as asking the respondent to place a check mark beside the desired answers. c) Ambiguity in responses-respondent may be confused about how to answer because some answers overlap or they perceive no correct answer. What does bullying mean to you? -Emotional abuse -Physical abuse -Sexual harassment -Other * Physical abuse and sexual abuse and emotional abuse are all linked to each other because they are all forms of unwanted association , and this may be confuse the reader as it makes it hard to distinguish one answer from the other since they overlap and are somewhat repetitive. Also, the answers are one-sided as the point of view is not only from the victim, but the bully as well. There are no victims without bullies. The responses should...
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...can occur; through phone calls, a website, chat rooms, e-mail, and pictures or even through videos. Margaret Rouse argues that because the use of mobile and online communications has grown so rapidly and the crime is relatively new, many jurisdictions are deliberating over cyberbullying laws. However, the crime is covered by existing laws against personal threats and harassment. In 2007, 43% of teens were a victim of cyberbullying, but only 11% of teens talked to their parents about cyberbullying incidents. It used to be that bullies were found roaming school hallways or threatening children on playgrounds. Now, bullies can be right in your home, threatening your children, they’re called Cyber Bullies. Being anonymous in the internet makes it easy for Cyber Bullies to day or does hateful things. These faceless tormentors can bully others without the direct contact and often away from adult supervision. And since they are anonymous, many online bullies believe that they may not face any consequences for their actions. 70% of students report seeing frequent bullying online. Filling up your friends' Facebook feeds with positive posts instead of negative ones can boost school-wide morale. Start a Facebook page for students to submit positive acts they see in school to promote a culture of positivity on and offline. What do these Cyberbullies do exactly? It really is only limited by their imagination. Some send flame mail, which are...
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...PHI-105 December 2, 2011 Morgan Denny Technology has devolved massively since the 1980s’s, computers access was very limited until the 1990’s , to gain access then, one would have to pay a visit to the public library to have access to a computer. The use of the public library computers was not as accessible as in today’s household computers; using public the computers meant you had a librarian constantly monitoring your time and work as you used the computer. However, today’s computer access and usage has advanced exponentially. A computer or similar processing unit can be found in almost every home, school, coffee shop and library around the world. Cyber bullying is the most undermined however, it is on the raise. The increased use of computers in our society has not been all good news and productive, which leads to cyber bullying. Cyber bullying is the most undermined however, it is on the raise. The development of computers and other technical device created issues in our society that we were not equipped to manage. The invention of social networking sites such as Face-book, Twitter and communication software like instant messaging, blogs, texting, emails, and chat-rooms have introduced ways in which the increase use of computers are being used in a counterproductive way. Through these avenues has lead to a new way of bullying known as cyber bullying. “Cyber bullying takes different forms, some of which are harder to identify are less forms obvious associated...
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...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 Cyber bullying Research Center surveyed 4,441 US subjects from the ages of ten to eighteen in February 2010. The study assessed...
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...Conclusion………………………………………………….Pg11 Bullying is a growing epidemic in today’s society. Bullying is a social problem that society has been struggling with for decades. A social problem is considered a common problem that many individuals experience separately. (Mills, 1959) Over many years, more and more people are becoming victims to bullying. What is bullying? From the Oxford dictionary, bullying is an aggressive action imposed by a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker. According to Olweus, a target of bullying is defined as “a person that is repeatedly victimized over time to negative actions by one or more persons” (Olweus, 1994). There are many short and long-term effects for both the victims and bullies. The effects that both endure are affective academically, physically, and emotionally. Some parents often think of it as a rite of passage. In their day, bullying was looked upon as typical child’s play and usually exists around adolescents. Before we begin to clarify bullying as a social problem and how to solve it, we would need to first explain the fundamentals of social problems. In this paper the questions that will be answered are: 1. How is bullying classified as a social problem? 2. How labeling and deviant behavior perspectives relate with bullying? 3. What types of bullying are there? 4. What is the effect of bullying? 5. How can bullying be prevented in terms of Blumer’s career of social...
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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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...Conclusion………………………………………………….Pg11 Bullying is a growing epidemic in today’s society. Bullying is a social problem that society has been struggling with for decades. A social problem is considered a common problem that many individuals experience separately. (Mills, 1959) Over many years, more and more people are becoming victims to bullying. What is bullying? From the Oxford dictionary, bullying is an aggressive action imposed by a person who uses strength or power to harm or intimidate those who are weaker. According to Olweus, a target of bullying is defined as “a person that is repeatedly victimized over time to negative actions by one or more persons” (Olweus, 1994). There are many short and long-term effects for both the victims and bullies. The effects that both endure are affective academically, physically, and emotionally. Some parents often think of it as a rite of passage. In their day, bullying was looked upon as typical child’s play and usually exists around adolescents. Before we begin to clarify bullying as a social problem and how to solve it, we would need to first explain the fundamentals of social problems. In this paper the questions that will be answered are: 1. How is bullying classified as a social problem? 2. How labeling and deviant behavior perspectives relate with bullying? 3. What types of bullying are there? 4. What is the effect of bullying? 5. How can bullying be prevented in terms of Blumer’s career of social...
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...Communication Monographs Vol. 73, No. 4, December 2006, pp. 406 Á433 Take This Job and . . . : Quitting and Other Forms of Resistance to Workplace Bullying Pamela Lutgen-Sandvik Adult bullying at work is an unbelievable and, at times, shattering experience, both for those targeted as well as for witnessing colleagues. This study examines the narratives of 30 workers, some of whom where targeted and all of whom saw others bullied. Their responses paint a complex picture of power in bullying situations that reframe the ‘‘power-deficient target’’ into agents who galvanize a variety of resources on their own or others’ behalf but also place them at considerable risk. In some cases, employees evaluate the abusive situation and quickly resign. Others protest but, if resistance fails to stop abuse, they also leave organizations. The paths of resistance, case outcomes, and dialectic nature of resistance and control are discussed. Keywords: Workplace Bullying; Verbal Aggression; Organizational Communication; Resistance; Power Adult bullying at work is a shocking, frightening, and at times shattering experience, both for those targeted and for onlookers. Workplace bullying, mobbing, and emotional abuse*essentially synonymous phenomena*are persistent, verbal, and nonverbal aggression at work that include personal attacks, social ostracism, and a multitude of other painful messages and hostile interactions. Because this phenomenon is perpetrated by and through communication, and because...
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...How to Confront an Office Bully The tragic story of Phoebe Prince’s suicide after relentless bullying and mobbing by teenagers at her high school in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is capturing international media attention. Nine students have now been indicted in this case. However, until all the media scrutiny, the bullies suffered seemingly no consequences. Many peers and teachers were aware of what was happening, but only a few reported this behavior to school authorities, including Phoebe’s mother. Nothing was done until it was too late. In a similar situation in 2008, 31-year-old Jodie Zebell from Wisconsin committed suicide after enduring months of workplace bullying from her peers and supervisor. Last week, the Wisconsin legislature listened to her story and others as the Healthy Workplace Bill was introduced. Gary Namie and Ruth Namie in their book The Bully at Work describe how bullies thrive on secrecy, shame, and the silence of others. The authors’ Labor Day 2008 Survey (of which 95% of the 400 respondents had been targets of bullying) revealed that 95% of the target’s co-workers of any rank — peers or managers — witnessed the mistreatment at least once. Yet 53% of the employers did nothing to stop the mistreatment when reported. In fact, in 71% of the cases, employers actually retaliated against the person who reported being bullied. The authors provide many reasons for “Witness Paralysis” including a natural human aversion to risk, Groupthink, rationalization, and...
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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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...tougher kids and hassling weaker ones is just a part growing up. It is how they learn to deal with the real world.” A statement heard by many people from adults. Unfortunately, this statement is incorrect. Throughout the course of years the US Department of Justice and Education indicate that more than eighty percent (80%) of public elementary and secondary schools report experiencing at least one violent incident ranging from bullying and physical fights to rape and assault with a weapon. (ProQuest Staff) This shows there is a need for change in society. A parent guardian as well as a student would want to be able to go to school in a secure environment for learning, but is that really how schools are today? Anyone can be a bully; classmates, administrators, school bus drivers, and even family members. Being a bully can be triggered by a desire to seem cool or to show social dominance. It can also be a ploy to hide your own low self-esteem and a need for approval from your peers. Bullying may start at home; family dynamics help bred bullies. An adult who will usual give birth and raise children that will bully. The last dynamic problem of what may create a bully is American culture; hostile music and movies and the focus on excellence and achievement that ignores the greater good of man. Bullying is dangerous; emotionally, psychologically and sometimes physically. It is intentional, it is repetitive, and it is negative and intended to hurt someone. II. Historical Background ...
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...this advanced era of technology and the use of social networking sites? Let's find out! These famous online social networking sites are becoming extremely popular for the roles they play with cyber bullying and has no longer been limited to only the real world. Cyber bullying goes far beyond just the physical and verbal fights, but instead adds intimidation, being frightened, harassment, and embarrassment. Ciara Harris, a famous singing artist, pours out her feelings about cyber bullying on her online blog. Harris argues that cyber bullying does not make you or anyone else any cooler, so why do so many people still do it? She quarrels that it is an issue that needs to be resolved. In her blog, she shows her strong hatred for the cyber bullies out there and what the words are really doing to others. Harris believes that “Words are powerful” meaning that we should carefully pay attention to our words and what huge effect it can have on an individual. Harris's first claim was about how the online world is changing. When she...
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...media. With her story as the backdrop, Monica erased from my mind the image of her in that blue beret and replaced it with the image of a confident woman who has made mistakes, suffered from her mistakes, learnt from her mistakes and grown from her mistakes. In taking this very public stance against bullying, she attacks the institutional mentality that makes public shaming permissible and acceptable. She denounces the environment that makes “humiliation” a commodity and gives perfect strangers the permission to “stab” you with their words. She criticizes the internet community for pacing a value on the clicks that a story generates and blames that value for the rampant abuse and reckless rise of cyber bullying. Monica’s speech was heartfelt and humanized her for all those who had labeled her and called her all sorts of names based on the one side of the story that had been retold over and over again on the internet about the Bill Clinton/ Monica Lewinski saga. By taking responsibility for her part in the saga and reminding all that “everyone” makes mistakes, Monica humanized herself and directed the discussion towards the main topic of her talk, bullying. She redefined herself and characterized public humiliation as “a...
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...room and lock your door. You take a look in the mirror to examine the cuts and bruises on your face. Now you feel worthless, you just want the torturing to stop. You sit at the end of your bed and think of a solution to end this growing problem. You go in your bathroom cabinet and find some pain killers. You take a handful of the pills and swallowed them. You back in your and write a letter to you parents telling that you are sorry they found you dead in your bed. Also in the letter you explain why you decided to end your life. You start to feel the pills take affect and you fall to the floor and everything goes black... Bullying is growing problem in the United States. Bullying can happen at the playground, school, the bus and other public places. As parents or caregivers we need to...
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