There is a time in every person's life where they have to deal with the pains of adolescents. Whether it is growing into who you are, finding out who your true friends are, or maybe finding out who your true friends aren’t, there will be several instances in which you will go through trials and tribulations to become a more adult version of yourself. As many of us experience, adolescents can be quite mean to one another, but I don’t think people realize the extent to which this occurs. There is a relatively new form of adolescent torture, being termed cyber-bullying. According to an article by Sameer Hinduja and Justin Patchin (2008) called “Cyberbullying: An Exploratory Analysis of Factors Related to Offending and Victimization” the authors define cyberbullying as, “willful and repeated harm inflicted through the medium of electronic text” (p. 131). They also go on to say that cyberbullying is the result of childhood aggression mixed with the new forms of communication technology that are available to them, i.e. the Internet, cell phones, etc. Cyberbullying is a very serious crime, as well as a serious disruption to the victim and the perpetrator’s lives. The CyberBully Investigators feel that it is important to explore further into cyberbullying by the means of two ways. First, we will be looking at ways to solve the problem of cyberbullying, especially if you are a victim. Through this we will give step-by-step advice on how to effectively stop the cyber-bullying from occurring. Finally, we will be looking at the prevention of cyberbullying, not only for the victims, but also for educators and parents. After extensive research, we have developed the best ways for children to prevent becoming victims of cyber-bullying, as well as prevention tactics for parents and educators. Now let’s begin our journey into cyber-bullying starting with the solutions to cyber-bullying and moving on to prevention.
Reference
Hinduja, S. & Patchin, J.W. (2008) Cyberbullying: An exploratory analysis of factors related to offending and victimization. Deviant Behavior, 29(2), 129-156.
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"Adolescents at the turn of the twenty-first century are being reaised in an Internet-enabled world where blogs, social networking, and instant messaging are competing with face-to-face and telephone communication as the dominant means and methods through which personal interaction takes place" (Hinduja & Patchin (2008). WIth the advancements in technology it seems like cyber-bullying can only get worse. Do you think if people used web cams and were forced to look at one another while talking they would stop bullying one another? I feel that people are mean and do hateful things online because they have a sense of anonymity and are able to hide behind their computers. Facing your partner in conversation makes the truth come out.
I am not sure what the beginning of the prevention was all about, but other then that I found it informative and covered cyber bullying pretty well. Talking about ways to avoid and or stop the bullying by blocking the bully from all personal sites was good, as well as explaining a few of the online ethics rules. They provided helpful websites which offer tips and help for those being cyberbullying, and also ways for parents to monitor what their child does so they can steer clear from it. My comments or questions for the blog would be…they covered a lot in the blog, effects, ways to avoid it, what you should do, pretty much everything, but what about the effects for those bullying. What happens to them, or do they just roam around bullying anyone who hasn’t blocked them. Although usually the bullies are someone they know, what if it’s someone they met in a chat room, or while playing an online game, what are the consciousness for the bullies. Or, what if your child is the bully, what are some ways you can “scare” him to not bully other then grounding them? I didn’t see any information on what happens to these bullies and felt it was the only thing missing. An example of this would be from Barnes, which was said that “The rape in cyberspace illustrates how people can blur the distinctions between on and offline experience and exemplifies how the emotional content of cyberspace can bleed into the real world.”(Barnes P257) Although a rough example, this does happen and by the time you block them the emotional stress it has caused may be to late, so what happens to the cyberbully who is causing this?
Barnes, S. B. (2003). Rape in Cyber Space. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. P257
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