Cyber-Bullying

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Cyber-Bullying

• By Shannon Hampton

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Is cyber-bullying worse than physical bullying?
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Introduction

• Education professors Paris and Robert Strom
  define cyber bullying as harassment using an
  electronic medium (e-mail, chat rooms, cell
  phones, instant messaging, and online voting
  booths) to threaten or harm others. This author
  believes that the definition should also include
  any form of information posted on the Internet,
  as in blogs, forums, etc. This latter form of
  cyber bullying involves gossip, humiliation, and
  threats. (Meech)

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Advertisement
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Advertisement and Speech

• http//youtu.be/kKoUegW5cPE
• This a commercial depicting cyber-bullying
• I feel this shows both advertisement and speech
  for the issue because it incorporates what
  victims hear when they are being tortured by
  their bully. Speech is a very integral part of
  this issue, without it the issue would not exist.
  Many bullies do not realize the weight of what
  they say nor do they think about the consequences
  of their words.

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Cartoons
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Statisctics

• This survey portrays how individuals felt when
  they were victims to cyber-bullying.

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Compare old-age vs new-age bullying

• Cyber-bullying

• Physical bullying

• Victims can be any age
• Abuse happens through some virtual portal whether
  e-mail, social media, text messages or blogs
• No where to hide

• Victims can be any age
• May or may not include physical touch or verbal
  taunting
• Victims can escape from their bully some way

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Conclusion

• I believe, based on the evidence I have gathered
  that cyber-bullying is worse than physical
  bullying and can be more dangerous. Through
  research I have found that the negative effects
  from cyber-bullying outweigh the negative effects
  from the physical form as it in most cases leads
  the victim to psychological distress and in some
  cases leads to suicide.

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Resources

• http//www.webmediamarketingsolutions.com/social-m
  edia-cyber-bullying/
• http//www.annapolis.gov/Government/Departments/Po
  liceDepartment/CommunityConnection/Communityresour
  ce/Cyberbullying.aspx
• Meech, Scott. "Cyber-Bullying Is Worse than
  Physical Bullying." Media Violence. Ed. Louise I.
  Gerdes. San Diego Greenhaven Press, 2004.
  Opposing Viewpoints. Rpt. from "Cyber Bullying
  Worse Than Traditional Bullying." Educators'
  eZine. 2007. Gale Opposing Viewpoints In Context.
  Web. 13 Dec. 2012.

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Resources contd

• http//www.cyberbullyingprotection.net/
• http//www.cyberbullying.us/research.php
• http//www.callnerds.com/what-is-cyber-bullying/