CyberBullying

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CyberBullying
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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
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What is Cyberbullying?

• Cyberbullying involves the use of information and
  communication 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).

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

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CYBER BULLYING PREVALENCE

• Aftabs statistics
• 90 of middle school students they polled had
  their feelings hurt online
• 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 in studies not assessing the real
  thing
• i.e. Only 15 of parent polled knew what cyber
  bullying was

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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 through close friends (Aftab)

http//www.aftab.com/
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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 non-stop
nightmare," says Joanne, 14, a freshman at a
private high school in Southern California. "I
dreaded going on my computer."
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"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.
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"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.
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Canadian teenager David Knights life became hell
when a group of his school mates established a
Hate David Knight website and posted
denigrating pictures and abuse and invited the
global community to join in the hate campaign.
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Why Use Technology to Bully?

• Anonymity
• Rapid deployment and dissemination
• Immediate
• Rich medium
• Natural

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How Do PeopleCyberbully Others?

• Exclusion
• Outing
• Polling
• Stalking
• Libel
• Blackmail

• Flaming
• E-mail
• Websites
• Piling via IM
• Impersonation

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What is the Impact of Cyberbullying?

• Psychological, physical, and emotional
• depression, anxiety, anger,
• school failure, school avoidance, suicide, and
  school violence
• Role modeling for others which increases
  likelihood of increased bullying

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What is the Impact of Cyberbullying?

• Legal consequences for school and families
  (slander, defamation, terroristic threats, sexual
  exploitation, etc.)
• Family Complications
• Very difficult to take back once it begins.
• Antithetical to the overall school mission

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NBC-2 Story About CyberBullying
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Bullycide
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CYBER BULLY CATEGORIES

• Inadvertent
• Role-play
• Responding
• May not realize its cyber bullying
• Vengeful Angel
• Righting wrongs
• Protecting themselves
• Mean Girls
• Bored Entertainment
• Ego based promote own social status
• Often do in a group
• Intimidate on and off line
• Need others to bully if isolated, stop

• Power-Hungry
• Want reaction
• Controlling with fear
• Revenge of the Nerds
• (Subset of Power-Hungry)
• Often Victims of school-yard bullies
• Throw cyber-weight around
• Not school-yard bullies like Power-Hungry Mean
  Girls

Parry Aftab. Esq., Executive Director,
WiredSafety.org
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Bully
Victim
Conducive Environment
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What Educators Can Do

• Conduct a needs/threat assessment
• Review school policy
• Provide opportunities for professional
  development of school staff (and parents).
• Classroom guidance
• System of reporting (especially among peers)
• Work with authorities and ISP
• Counseling
• Anti-bullying programs

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What Parents Can Do

• Keep computer in a place easy to monitor
• Use monitoring software and/or blocking/filtering
• Work with the school, authorities, and ISP
• Get tech literate
• Communicate with children about the issue
• Programmable cell phones
• Support the victims
• Dont blame the victim
• Dont freak out

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Advantages of using Peers

• power of peer influence
• legitimizing the issue of harassment
• less hampered by institutional concerns
• mobilize other students

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Advantages of using Peers

• Help pick training materials
• Peers are often more accessible and available
• As activists, they can alert educators, teachers,
  and administrators to concerns
• most reporting takes place on a peer-to-peer
  basis

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What Kids Can Do
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What We Can ALL Do
Take a stand against cyberbullying.
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Resources

• Online column about cyberbullying
  (http//www.schoolcounselor.com/pubs/cyberbullying
  -sabella.doc)
• http//cyberbully.org/
• Parents guide
• Educators guide more!
• News reports
• National Alliance for Safe Schools
  http//www.safeschools.org/
• Provides training, technical assistance, and
  publications to school districts interested in
  reducing school based crime and violence.

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Resources

• National Education Associations National
  Bullying Awareness Campaign http//www.nea.org/iss
  ues/safescho/bullying
• National School Safety Center http//www.nssc1.org
  /
• Provides training, technical assistance, and
  resources on school safety and school crime
  prevention offers training films on various
  issues conducts national public service
  campaigns.
• The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
  http//modelprograms.samhsa.gov/pdfs/FactSheets/Ol
  weus20Bully.pdf
• A model program of the Substance Abuse and Mental
  Health Services Administration, U.S. Department
  of Health and Human Services. The program is a
  multilevel, multi-component school-based program
  designed to prevent or reduce bullying in
  elementary, middle, and junior high schools.
• http//www.stopbullyingnow.com/

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Resources
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http//www.internetsuperheroes.org/
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http//www.doe.state.in.us/sservices/pdf/bully_man
ual.pdf
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