Bullying

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DIFFERENCES
BULLYING • DIRECT • Occurs on school property • Poor relationships with teachers • Fear retribution
Physical: Hitting, Punching & Shoving Verbal: Teasing, Name calling & Gossip Nonverbal: Use of gestures & Exclusion
www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov

CYBERBULLYING • ANONYMOUS • Occurs off school property • Good relationships with teachers • Fear loss of technology privileges
• •Further under the radar than bullying Emotional reactions cannot be determined

{McKenna & Bargh, 2004; Ybarra & Mitchell, 2004}

From „Demystifying and Deescalating Cyber Bullying‟ by Barbara Trolley, Ph.D. CRC, Connie Hanel, M.S.E.d & Linda Shields, M.S.E.d. http://www.nyssca.org/CYBERBULLYING-pp-BT28th.ppt

What is Cyberbullying?
• Cyberbullying involves the use of information andcommunication technologies such as email, cell phone and pager text messages, instant messaging (IM), defamatory personal web sites, and defamatory online personal polling web sites, to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others (Keith & Martin, 2004).

Recently, i-SAFE America conducted a national survey of more than 1500 students-ranging from fourth to eighth grade.

iSafe Survey
• 58% of kids admit someone has said mean or hurtful things to them online • 53% of kids admit having said something mean or hurtful things to another online • 42% of kids have been bullied while online • 34% were threatened

CYBER BULLYING PREVALENCE
• Aftab‟s statistics:
 90% of middle school students they polled had their feelings hurtonline  65% of their students between 8-14 have been involved directly or indirectly in a cyber bullying incident as the cyber bully, victim or friend  50% had seen or heard of a website bashing of another student  75% had visited a website bashing  40% had their password stolen and changed by a bully (locking them out of their own account) or sent communications posing as them  Problems instudies: not assessing the „real thing‟ i.e. Only 15% of parent polled knew what cyber bullying was

CYBER BULLYING PREVALENCE
• Cyber bullying typically starts at about 9 years of age and usually ends after 14 years of age; after 14, it becomes cyber or sexual harassment due to nature of acts and age of actors (Aftab) • Affects 65-85% of kids in the core group directly or indirectly throughclose friends (Aftab)
http://www.aftab.com/

When Joanne had a row with a longtime friend last year, she had no idea it would spill into cyberspace. But what started as a spat at a teenage sleepover swiftly escalated into a three-month harangue of threatening e-mails and defacement of her weblog. "It was a nonstop nightmare," says Joanne, 14, a freshman at a private high school in SouthernCalifornia. "I dreaded going on my computer."

"If I find you, I will beat you up," one message read. Frightened, Michael blocked their IM addresses but didn't tell his parents for two weeks. "It scared me," he recalls. "It was the first time I was bullied."

At one Elementary School in Fairfax, Va. last year, sixth-grade students conducted an online poll to determine the ugliest classmate,school officials say.

"The person was pretending it was me, and using it to call people names," the 14-year-old Seattle student said. "I never found out who it was."

In June 2003 a twelve-year-old Japanese girl killed her classmate because she was angry about messages that had been posted about her on the Internet.

Canadian teenager David Knight’s life became hell when a group of his schoolmates established a “Hate David Knight” website and posted denigrating pictures and abuse and invited the global community to join in the hate campaign.

Why Use Technology to Bully?
• • • • • • • Anonymity Rapid deployment and dissemination Immediate Rich medium Natural Requires only thumbs, not biceps And … technology is cheap and ubiquitous

How Do People Cyberbully Others?
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