Are danger and tip lists helpful or harmful for identify cyber bullies, helpful or harmful?
In todays society, stereo typing is very common. You see a Muslim decent boarding a plane and thoughts start racing through your mind. Should I stay on this plane? Should I be nervous? Did they get through the checkpoint without security issues? All because of one thing: They are Muslim. In todays classroom, teachers teach students about how harmful stereotyping can actually be. They provide lesson plans to teach students that stereo typing can not only hurt peoples feelings but can also cause tension in the classroom.
How can someone tell if someone is a cyberbully or if someone just has the charectierictis.? What if you stereo type a cyber bully and you are wrong?
Cyberbullying involves the use of information and communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others. www.cyberbullying.org -conceived of, and created by Bill Belsey, creator and facilitator of www.bullying.org
Cyber bulling is on a rise.According to the National Crime Prevention Center, over 40% of all teenagers with Internet access have reported being bullied online during the past year.
Social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace are growing fast, and so are the cyberbullying incidents originating from them. Experts believe that they will soon overtake chat rooms as the top source of cyberbullying problems worldwide.
According to extensive research on middle school age students and teenagers online, the fastest growing problems within the world of cyberbullying are:
-Stealing an individual’s name and password to a social networking site, then using their profile to post rumors, gossip or other damaging information.
-Altering photographs using PhotoShop or other photo editing software in order to humiliate the individual.
-Recording conversations without the individual’s knowledge or consent, then posting the call online.
-Creating confrontational and mean-spirited online polls about the individual and posting them on different web sites.
-Using web sites and blogs to post hurtful, embarrassing information about another individual.
So, how do we spot these cyber bullys? Are the danger and tip lists helpful or harmful to identify these cyberbullies?
I am going to do extensive research phycoogically of kids who create this tension between people who cyber bullying and also interviews of children who have cyber bullied and why they have done this.
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3 comments:
This is an important topic, keep up the good work. I have some content that might be helpful for you at www.guardingkids.com
Have you found much on the "why" part yet? A lot of the sources I've found so far for this (and the trolling essay) are pretty much how-to sheets and training for parents/teachers/other adults. Which is wonderful, but I have that nagging feeling there's all this scholarship I'm missing! :)
Damn, I forgot - the stereotyping - what 'types have you come accross? I ask this because the tradtional "typical" internet user is often painted as an educated white middle class male, and often hetero to boot. I haven't seen much in the way of cookie cutter images for cyber bullies, but I was intrigued to find that girls have quite a presence in the bully department. I'll post that source later - let me know if you find anything fun!
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