Online Bullying

Online Bullying of Students

 

           Dooley, Julian J., Jacek Pyżalski, and Donna Cross. "Cyberbullying versus face-to-face bullying." Zeitschrift für Psychologie/Journal of Psychology 217.4 (2009): 182-188.

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• This article, Cyberbullying versus face-to-face bullying compares and contrasts individual factors common to cyber and face-to-face bullying. 
• Starts out by talking about the definition of cyberbullying. There are many definitions of cyberbullying but the best one would have to be '‘an aggressive, intentional act carried out by a group or individual, using electronic forms of contact, repeatedly and over time against a victim who cannot easily defend him or herself.’’ (Article)
• A single cyber act could be sufficient to be considered bullying especially if that act was followed by offline bullying.  The article also talks about how internet bullying is different from offline bullying because there are many different aspects to it and it can be permanent. Having an embarrassing picture posted on the Internet has the potential for significant and long-lasting social and emotional harm and they found that cyberbullying using picture/video were way more severe due to the fact that people can be identified and also the large potenial audience.
• This article was written to give more information and facts to understand the differences and similarities between face-to-face bullying and cyberbullying, even though the acts and engagements behind cyberbullying are still unclear.
• This article was written by a group at Child Health Promotion Research Centre which makes the article's information accurate. There are also numerous references and data collected that was part of the process of research. The article is from 2009 which makes the information pretty up to date and new-ish.
• My opinion on this issue/article is that it could definitely help with the background information on cyberbullying and if there were ever an instance where I may need to know the comparisons and contrasts of face-to-face bullying and cyberbullying this article would help very much.

"Students Take on Cyberbullying (8 Min) [4,277 Views]." TeacherTube. N.p., n.d. Web. 27 Feb. 2013.

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• In this video, Students Take on Cyberbullying, a class takes on discussions about cyberbullying that they personally have been through or others have been through.
• A hate crimes task force officer Dave D'Amico gave a presentation on cyberbullying and after his presentation, the class discussed the wide spread problems of cyberbullying. We as viewers could see and hear more stories from students and their views on cyberbullying.
• The class talked about what they could do to take the next step towards preventing cyberbullying and started by posting many positive posts on their Facebook page and creating a new tolerance group for their school.
• I believe this information is up to date and accurate because the video was posted in 2011 and was made by a group called The Working Group and this video was part of a project for 'Not In Our Town'. Not In Our Town's mission is to guide, support and inspire people and communities to work together to stop hate and build safe, inclusive environments for all.
• This source was very helpful for my topic because it shows how it affects students in a real life class and it allows us to hear stories from these students. I also really liked how in the end the students actually did do something about it and took a step towards making a difference with cyberbullying.