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Cyber Bullying Prevention

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With the advent and rapid development of the Internet, children and teenagers spend more time on computers and some negative effect of the Internet occurs, such as cyber bullying. Cyber bullying has become a serious problem among youth and children all over the world. With the data of 80 studies of different countries, it is estimated that the on average more than 15% of children and youth have been the victims of cyber bullying (Schultze-Krumbholz et al 148). The situation in the United States is also serious. A study among 84 adolescents in 2007 reveals that about 49% of them reported that they were cyber bullied (Stewart and Fritsch 80). In addition, cyber bullying can be more harmful and more prevalent than traditional bullying because …show more content…

Most of the resources are academic articles from journals in the online database and Google Scholar. Most of the journals are associated with psychology and education, such as Psychology in the Schools, Aggressive Behavior, and Computers in Human Behavior, Preventing School Failure, and so on. Academic articles are peer-reviewed and many of them contain data from first-hand research. Therefore they are more credible than articles on …show more content…

I need to find some newspaper articles which describe and discuss cases and examples of schools or the government succeed in preventing and reducing cyber bullying. In addition, my current sources address the strategies that schools, parents, and the government can employ to deal with cyber bullying. I want to find more information about if students can do something to prevent or avoid cyber bullying. If possible, I hope to interview one or more school administrators to get information about if they have taken some measures to deal with cyber bullying at school and if they find the measures effective or not. I also want to interview cyber bullies to know why they bully others on the Internet. In this way, I can put forward corresponding prevention strategies. My timeline is to master some basic skills of interviews in Lesson 9 and conduct some interviews when I write the outline in Lesson 10 and then I will work on the

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The significant psychological and academic repercussions provide a picture of what cyber bullying is doing to our youth. Research suggests children and teens are seen with hightened aggression, sexual curiosity, substance abuse and depression. Another point that is made, suggests teens that cyber bully are themselves targets of similar treatment. The article concludes that adults are the primary defense against bullying. Setting up guidelines and rules is just one small preventative measure.

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Due to the increase of technology, it has become increasingly easy for students to bully each other on social media or by e-mail. This new method of communication allows students to make fun and belittle others anonymously, behind a computer screen. Cyberbullying has become increasingly prominent at local schools but despite the disruptions it may cause, schools should not be allowed to limit online speech. Cyberbullying does not affect the majority of people, it is not the most terrible offense and it happens oftentimes outside of school.

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The definition of a language is “the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.” Now while there are about six-thousand-five-hundred different languages spoken around the world today, scientists are intrigued as to how these forms of communications initiated (Cite this). How did humans, evolving from one continent, expand their vocabulary to the many languages we have today? This man-made creation has lead researchers, as well as our ancestors, to develop many different theories on how communication rose, and these unanswered questions emphasize the complexity as well as the uncertainty of language evolution despite how easy a language like English may seem today (Tallerman). Some speculate that the first steps guided towards communication occurred 1.7 million years ago,

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Only 1 out of 10 victims said they felt the need to speak to their parents about cyber bullying. Those that are being affected by cyber bullying 2 out 9 victims have considered committing suicide or have committed suicide. The worse part about all of this, is that 75 percent actually admit that they go into cyber bullying accounts for their own entertaining pleasure to bash others. I feel that cyber bullying in today’s society, is a very important topic that needs to be addressed because it is affecting young lives and we don’t want anyone to be hurt and harassed.

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The article “Cyberbullying: What Teachers and Schools can do by Caralee Adams”, depict the many facets involving cyberbullying as it relates to schools. While this article lends itself to multiple components of the cyberbullying topic, this paper will focus on student perception and determining what schools can do to address Cyberbullying. In February of 2010 approximately 4000 students between the ages of 10 and 18 were surveyed on their perception of the bullying issue. Survey results showed that students felt the most hurtful means of bullying resulted in rumors and hurtful comments posted via Facebook, text messages and other means of social media. Girls have a 9% increase in cyberbullying experiences than boys.

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“Choose a job you love, and you will never work a day in your life”-Confucius (Coombs and Arcand). This is something my mom always told me growing up and I have always taken it to heart. This is because if I am enjoying and having a good time then it will not feel like work. This just means I need to find something that would make me happy every day. As a graduating senior, I have taken the interest survey, and I understand why the survey recommends agribusiness as a potential career field because of how I would get to work with my hands and also because it's a well-paying job.

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McClatchy writes for a national newspaper in Minnesota and is currently drawing attention to cyber bullying. She explores new methods to combat this new type of bullying, which is derived from the internet. This article provides examples on several solutions that have been employed by different states to resolve the issue. Many state governments have come up with new laws requiring schools to construct policies to counter cyber bullying. The article also quotes a professor from John Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public health; he states that the increased usage and reliance on the Internet and smartphones will have a big impact towards cyber bullying.

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Bullying, the act of harassment and intimidation, is causing teens to commit suicide and school shootings. Bullying is an issue for all ages in schools and online in the United States and all around the world. Bullying can range from just name calling and teasing to physical threats and rumors. This needs to be recognized as a problem that must be dealt with because students no longer feel safe going to school with all the school shootings going on. Bullying is a social injustice because children and young adults are being mistreated and they think suicide is there only way out of the situation.

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Online it is so easy to bully someone without getting into trouble for doing it, this is why more bullying happens online than in person. This issue affects everyone being bullied, and it can happen to anyone. Cyberbullying is a big problem and needs to be solved, online speech should be limited because cyberbullying happens to so many people, it could help stop harassment, and it could help more people get involved. Cyberbullying happens more than we recognize. 25% of people say they have been cyberbullied within their lifetimes (Doc A).

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Bullying in this day in age is one of the biggest problems teens and pre-teens have to face on a day to day basis. According to stopbullying.gov, bullying is defined as “Unwanted, aggressive behavior among school aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance” (1). Whether it’s physical, verbal, or over the internet, any teen would tell you that they have been bullied or witnessed some type of bullying take place. This is a huge problem that needs to be resolved because the abuse of one may lead to both short and long term effects in their life. A fairly well known bullying scandal that occurred here on Long Island took place last year at Welden E. Howitt Middle School in Farmingdale.

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Most of the time cyber bullying happens over social media. Over 80% of

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This study proved that given the amount of time that adolescents are on computers unsupervised whether it be at home or in public libraries those who cyberbully are most often the ones that were prior victims to cyberbullying themselves. This study would benefit in research for “affects cyberbullying has on adolescents because it gives reasons to why cyberbullying bully in the first place. Although with was full of useful information it would have been more beneficial to monitor social media sites that the kids were using verses how long the kids were on the internet. In doing so, it would have supported their theory of cyberbullies being vicitam of bullying as

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Fast innovations, such as the Internet, are constantly changing how people interact. Although this development has been approved human beings to make great progress in many areas, they have also allowed the form of violation to become more widespread. This is evident when looking at how traditional bullying has grown became today's issue known as cyberbullying. Although bullying and cyberbullying are often similar in shape and their technique also has a lot of difference. Unlike traditional bullying, cyberbullying allows offenders to close his identity behind the computer.

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Not just this, the long term effect of cyberbullying is much larger than any other form of bullying. Digital images, cell phones, and other electronic means can greatly increase the speed in which the bully's messages can spread. In the year 2000 a University of New Hampshire study found that one out of every 17, or six percent of kids in the United States, had been threatened or harassed online. But in March of 2006, statistics showed that 75 to 80 percent of 12 to 14 year olds had been cyber bullied.

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An article published by BBC News UK states that almost one out of five children have at some point experienced to be bullied online. These dangers are only som of many dangers youths may have to deal with in the world because of the technology. Despite of the dangers to brows the internet, the web can also be a great source for information and pleasure, but it is important to know the risks as well. Just because there are some dangerous things about the web.

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