Cyber Bullying: Modern Day Harassment
Cyber Bullying: Modern Day Harassment
Stephanie Cribb-Wickham
COM/156 University Composition And Communication II
April 29, 2012
Dr. Elyse Berube
Cyber Bullying: Modern Day Harassment When you think of a bully, you picture a school yard where one child is threatening another child for their lunch money. Unfortunately, bullying is no longer idle threats made face-to-face in the school yard. It has a new face. People can bully someone through text messages, blogs, social networking sites, and even e-mail. This is called cyber bullying. Children can no longer fake an illness to keep from having a confrontation with a bully at school. It now follows them where ever they go because of mobile technology. Cyberbullying has become the new way for school-age children and teenagers to target and harass an individual who may be less fortunate or different than themselves by attacking them through means of text messaging, chat rooms, or through social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Victims
Most victims of cyberbullying are bullied at school. In an article published in the American Journal of Public Health, “A majority (59.7%) of cyberbullying victims were also school bullying victims; 36.3% of school bullying victims were also cyberbullying victims.” (Schneider, 2012). Sociodemographics, age, sex, sexual orientation, and sexual promiscuity are several factors that promote cyberbullying among students.
Bullied at School Schools where there is a large inequality in socioeconomic status amongst its students, no matter what country the school may be in, find a higher risk of cyberbullying. (Sbarbaro & Enyeart-Smith, 2011). Most of these schools are found in large cities where children from every type of socioeconomic background attend the same school. While it appears that students that attend a school with high minority students in attendance tend to be bullies as well. Sbarbaro and Enyeart Smith also speculate that the way a
Stephanie Cribb-Wickham
COM/156 University Composition And Communication II
April 29, 2012
Dr. Elyse Berube
Cyber Bullying: Modern Day Harassment When you think of a bully, you picture a school yard where one child is threatening another child for their lunch money. Unfortunately, bullying is no longer idle threats made face-to-face in the school yard. It has a new face. People can bully someone through text messages, blogs, social networking sites, and even e-mail. This is called cyber bullying. Children can no longer fake an illness to keep from having a confrontation with a bully at school. It now follows them where ever they go because of mobile technology. Cyberbullying has become the new way for school-age children and teenagers to target and harass an individual who may be less fortunate or different than themselves by attacking them through means of text messaging, chat rooms, or through social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter.
Victims
Most victims of cyberbullying are bullied at school. In an article published in the American Journal of Public Health, “A majority (59.7%) of cyberbullying victims were also school bullying victims; 36.3% of school bullying victims were also cyberbullying victims.” (Schneider, 2012). Sociodemographics, age, sex, sexual orientation, and sexual promiscuity are several factors that promote cyberbullying among students.
Bullied at School Schools where there is a large inequality in socioeconomic status amongst its students, no matter what country the school may be in, find a higher risk of cyberbullying. (Sbarbaro & Enyeart-Smith, 2011). Most of these schools are found in large cities where children from every type of socioeconomic background attend the same school. While it appears that students that attend a school with high minority students in attendance tend to be bullies as well. Sbarbaro and Enyeart Smith also speculate that the way a
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