003Cyberbullying

Courtney Lowe, Steven Marconi, ChadHall Frostburg State University Spring 11

====Cyber bullying is when a child is harassed, tormented, humiliated, threatened, or targeted by another child using interactive and digital technologies such as the internet and mobile phones. Cyber bullies use email, chat groups, webpages, text messaging and instant messaging with the intent to harm another person. It is usually not a one time communication. Often times it is embarrassing or false information about the victim gets displayed publicly by the bully. Kids have reported cyber bullying starting as early as age 2. This is different from cyber-harassment and cyberstalking in which adults are involved. It has become more common among young people, and many legislation and awareness campaigns have arisen to combat it. ====

====Low self-esteem, depression, drop in grades, and even suicide; sadly, these are just some of the effects that cyberbullying can have on its victims. The effects of cyberbullying can be absolutely devastating to not only the person being bullied, but the families of the victims as well. With technology on the rise we are constantly seeing a higher occurrence of cyberbullying taking place. “[Cyberbullying] can be harsher. Often kids say things online that they wouldn't say in person, mainly because they can't see the other person's reaction (NCPC, 2001).” Whether it’s over text message, through emails, chat rooms, or IM’s cyberullying has become a serious matter that unfortunately goes un-reported a lot of the time by the victims. The victims normally feel embarrassed or feel as though they can handle the situation themselves so they typically don’t reach out to others for help. “Many children and teens who are cyberbullied fail to report it to parents or adults at school (Stop Bullying Now, 2009).” Cyberbu llying is a very real and horrible thing that leaves their victims feeling hopeless and empty, like they have nowhere to go. ====

==== Some of the direct attacks listed are not as common as other ones so we will be focusing on the top three. The first major type of cyber bullying is harassment through instant messaging and text messages. Many kids will send thratening and hateful messages that are used to intimidate and put down another peer. Also, kids will start a text war which picks on one individual and the others will send thousands of IM's/ text messages that can be very hurtful. Some messages even escalate to death threats and messages that can lead to a person harming themselves. Another rising way to cyber bully is to steal passwords. Kids will steal another persons password and pretend to be them so they can send messages to people sying hateful or embarrsing things about them. Also, a kid may use the password to chang the pe rsons profile to say embarrasing or hateful things so everyone can see and may bring unwanted attention. Examples are sexuality, racisism and inappropriate things. With a stolen password students will also lock the other child out of there account so they can not get into the account. One more last way to cyber bully is blogs. When students are blogging they can write just about anything and it is their own online journal. Students will use their blogs to say what is on their mind and that includes attacking and harrasing students. Kids sometimes will use blogs to damage other kids reputations or invade their privacy. An example of this is when a boy posted a bunch of blogs about his breakup with his ex-girlfriend, which explained how she destroyed his life and listed false information about her.. He called her degrading and inappropriate names that their mutual friends read about and they ended up criticizing her and she became very embarrassed. Another way to attack kids with a blog is to set up a blog pretending to be their victim and saying things designed to humiliate them. As you can see their are numerous ways to cyber bully and it will take alot of work and teaching to help prevent cyberbullying from causing pain to our youth. ====

References:

"CyberBullying." HRSA. Web. 18 Feb. 2011 [] (NCPC) National Crime Prevention Council (2001). What is Cyberbullying?

[] Stop Bullying Now(2009). CYBERBULLYING.

[] "Stop Cyberbullying." Web. 18 Feb. 2011.

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Courtney Lowe, Steven Marconi, Chad Hall

====Cyber bullying is when a child is harassed, tormented, humiliated, threatened, or targeted by another child using interactive and digital technologies such as the internet and mobile phones. Cyber bullies use email, chat groups, webpages, text messaging and instant messaging with the intent to harm another person. It is usually not a one time communication. Often times it is embarrassing or false information about the victim gets displayed publicly by the bully. Kids have reported cyber bullying starting as early as age 2. This is different from cyber-harassment and cyberstalking in which adults are involved. It has become more common among young people, and many legislation and awareness campaigns have arisen to combat it. ====

====Low self-esteem, depression, drop in grades, and even suicide; sadly, these are just some of the effects that cyberbullying can have on its victims. The effects of cyberbullying can be absolutely devastating to not only the person being bullied, but the families of the victims as well. With technology on the rise we are constantly seeing a higher occurrence of cyberbullying taking place. “[Cyberbullying] can be harsher. Often kids say things online that they wouldn't say in person, mainly because they can't see the other person's reaction (NCPC, 2001).” Whether it’s over text message, through emails, chat rooms, or IM’s cyberullying has become a serious matter that unfortunately goes un-reported a lot of the time by the victims. The victims normally feel embarrassed or feel as though they can handle the situation themselves so they typically don’t reach out to others for help. “Many children and teens who are cyberbullied fail to report it to parents or adults at school (Stop Bullying Now, 2009).” Cyberbullying is a very real and horrible thing that leaves their victims feeling hopeless and empty, like they have nowhere to go. ====

==== Some of the direct attacks listed are not as common as other ones so we will be focusing on the top three. The first major type of cyber bullying is harassment through instant messaging and text messages. Many kids will send thratening and hateful messages that are used to intimidate and put down another peer. Also, kids will start a text war which picks on one individual and the others will send thousands of IM's/ text messages that can be very hurtful. Some messages even escalate to death threats and messages that can lead to a person harming themselves. Another rising way to cyber bully is to steal passwords. Kids will steal another persons password and pretend to be them so they can send messages to people sying hateful or embarrsing things about them. Also, a kid may use the password to chang the persons profile to say embarrasing or hateful things so everyone can see and may bring unwanted attention. Examples are sexuality, racisism and inappropriate things. With a stolen password students will also lock the other child out of there account so they can not get into the account. One more last way to cyber bully is blogs. When students are blogging they can write just about anything and it is their own online journal. Students will use their blogs to say what is on their mind and that includes attacking and harrasing students. Kids sometimes will use blogs to damage other kids reputations or invade their privacy. An example of this is when a boy posted a bunch of blogs about his breakup with his ex-girlfriend, which explained how she destroyed his life and listed false information about her.. He called her degrading and inappropriate names that their mutual friends read about and they ended up criticizing her and she became very embarrassed. Another way to attack kids with a blog is to set up a blog pretending to be their victim and saying things designed to humiliate them. As you can see their are numerous ways to cyber bully and it will take alot of work and teaching to help prevent cyberbullying from causing pain to our youth. ====

"CyberBullying." HRSA. Web. 18 Feb. 2011 <span style="cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">(NCPC) National Crime Prevention Council (2001). What is Cyberbullying? <span style="cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Stop Bullying Now(2009). CYBERBULLYING. <span style="cursor: pointer; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"Stop Cyberbullying." Web. 18 Feb. 2011. <span style="font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/what_is_cyberbullying_exactly.html> <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; cursor: pointer; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 10px; padding-top: 0px;">[]

Steven Marconi- __The Effects of Cyberbullying:__

Low self-esteem, depression, drop in grades, and even suicide; sadly, these are just some of the effects that cyberbullying can have on its victims. The effects of cyberbullying can be absolutely devastating to not only the person being bullied, but the families of the victims as well. With technology on the rise we are constantly seeing a higher occurrence of cyberbullying taking place. “[Cyberbullying] can be harsher. Often kids say things online that they wouldn't say in person, mainly because they can't see the other person's reaction (NCPC, 2001).” Whether it’s over text message, through emails, chat rooms, or IM’s cyberullying has become a serious matter that unfortunately goes un-reported a lot of the time by the victims. The victims normally feel embarrassed or feel as though they can handle the situation themselves so they typically don’t reach out to others for help. “Many children and teens who are cyberbullied fail to report it to parent <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">s or adults at school (Stop Bullying Now, 2009).” Cyberbullying is a very real and horrible thing that leaves their victims feeling hopeless and empty, like they have nowhere to go.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">(NCPC) National Crime Prevention Council (2001). What is Cyberbullying? <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Stop Bullying Now(2009). CYBERBULLYING. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[]

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Courtney Lowe: What is Cyber Bullying?

====Cyber bullying is when a child is harassed, tormented, humiliated, threatened, or targeted by another child using interactive and digital technologies such as the internet and mobile phones. Cyber bullies use email, chat groups, webpages, text messaging and instant messaging with the intent to harm another person. It is usually not a one time communication. Often times it is embarrassing or false information about the victim gets displayed publicly by the bully. Kids have reported cyber bullying starting as early as age 2. This is different from cyber-harassment and cyberstalking in which adults are involved. It has become more common among young people, and many legislation and awareness campaigns have arisen to combat it.====

"Cyberbullying" is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. It has to have a minor on both sides, or at least have been instigated by a minor against another minor. Once adults become involved, it is plain and simple cyber-harassment or cyberstalking. Adult cyber-harassment or cyberstalking is NEVER called cyberbullying. It isn't when adult are trying to lure children into offline meetings, that is called sexual exploitation or luring by a sexual predator. But sometimes when a minor starts a cyberbullying campaign it involves sexual predators who are intrigued by the sexual harassment or even ads posted by the cyberbullying offering up the victim for sex. The methods used are limited only by the child's imagination and access to technology. And the cyberbully one moment may become the victim the next. The kids often change roles, going from victim to bully and back again. Children have killed each other and committed suicide after having been involved in a cyberbullying incident. Cyberbullying is usually not a one time communication, unless it involves a death threat or a credible threat of serious bodily harm. Kids usually know it when they see it, while parents may be more worried about the lewd language used by the kids than the hurtful effect of rude and embarrassing posts. Cyberbullying may arise to the level of a misdemeanor cyberharassment charge, or if the child is young enough may result in the charge of juvenile delinquency. Most of the time the cyberbullying does not go that far, although parents often try and pursue criminal charges. It typically can result in a child losing their ISP or IM accounts as a terms of service violation. And in some cases, if hacking or password and identity theft is involved, can be a serious criminal matter under state and federal law. When schools try and get involved by disciplining the student for cyberbullying actions that took place off-campus and outside of school hours, they are often sued for exceeding their authority and violating the student's free speech right. They also, often lose. Schools can be very effective brokers in working with the parents to stop and remedy cyberbullying situations. They can also educate the students on cyberethics and the law. If schools are creative, they can sometimes avoid the claim that their actions exceeded their legal authority for off-campus cyberbullying actions. We recommend that a provision is added to the school's acceptable use policy reserving the right to discipline the student for actions taken off-campus if they are intended to have an effect on a student or they adversely affect the safety and well-being of student while in school. This makes it a contractual, not a constitutional, issue.
 * What is cyberbullying, exactly?**

from: http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/what_is_cyberbullying_exactly.html

====<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Two teenagers from South Johnston High School (NC) were arrested on Jan. 31 and charged with misdemeanor cyberbullying. According to <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #336699; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|reports], this is the first time teens in the triangle area have been charged under the new state law that went into effect in December 2009. ====

====<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 10px; margin: 0px; outline-width: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Joshua Aarron Temple, 18, and Justin Ray Jackson, 17, allegedly created a Facebook page that was used to post threatening comments about their 15-year-old victim. Arrest warrants indicated that Jackson posted comments stating that he would run over the victim with his pickup truck. Temple posted “that he was bringing a gun, to school to hunt (the victim).” ====

from: http://www.examiner.com/parenting-tweens-in-national/clamping-down-on-bullies-teens-arrested-for-cyberbullying

<span style="color: #520000; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em;">**Where Are Children Cyberbullied?**
Most cyberbullying is done away from school (Dehue et al., 2008; Smith et al., 2008), although more cyberbullying may occur during school than many adults realize. For example, in a telephone survey of preteens (6-11-year-olds) and teens (12-17-year-olds) (Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, 2006):
 * 45% of preteens and 30% of teens who had been cyberbullied received the messages while at school.
 * 44% of preteens and 70% of teens who had been cyberbullied received the messages at home.
 * 34% of preteens and 25% of teens who had been cyberbullied received the messages while at a friend's house.

<span style="color: #520000; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em;">**Children's Reactions to Cyberbullying**
Most teens (60% of boys and 70% of girls) see online bullying as a serious problem and feel that there should be stricter rules about it (70% of boys and 80% of girls) (Cox Communications, 2009). Many children and teens who are cyberbullied fail to report it to parents or adults at school (Agatston et al., 2007; Dehue et al., 2008; Smith et al., 2008). According to a telephone survey of preteens and teens (Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, 2006):
 * 51% of preteens but only 35% of teens who had been cyberbullied had told their parents about their experience.
 * 27% of preteens and only 9% of teens who had been cyberbullied had told a teacher.
 * 44% of preteens and 72% of teens who had been cyberbullied had told a friend.
 * 31% of preteens and 35% of teens who had been cyberbullied had told a sibling.
 * 16% or preteens and teens who had been cyberbullied had told no one.

<span style="color: #520000; font-family: 'Arial Narrow',Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 1.4em;">**How Does Cyberbullying Affect Children?**
Little research has explored the possible effects of cyberbullying on children. When students are asked how they believe cyberbullying affected them, they indicate that it made them sad and unwilling to attend school (Raskauskas & Stoltz, 2007). A survey of middle and high school students found that children who were cyber "bully/victims" (had cyberbullied others and also had been cyberbullied) had the highest rates of anxiety, depression and school absences compared to cyber "bullies", cyber "victims" and children who weren't involved in cyberbullying. By contrast, children not at all involved in cyberbullying had the highest self-esteem and grades and the fewest symptoms of health problems (Kowalski & Limber, under review). from: []

__**CHAD HALL**__
1) [] Because their motives differ, the solutions and responses to each type of cyberbullying incident has to differ too. Unfortunately, there is no "one size fits all" when cyberbullying is concerned. Only two of the types of cyberbullies have something in common with the traditional schoolyard bully. Experts who understand schoolyard bullying often misunderstand cyberbullying, thinking it is just another method of bullying. But the motives and the nature of cybercommunications, as well as the demographic and profile of a cyberbully differ from their offline counterpart.
 * How can you stop it once it starts?**

When schools try and get involved by disciplining the student for cyberbullying actions that took place off-campus and outside of school hours, they are often sued for exceeding their authority and violating the student's free speech right. 2) []
 * What is the school's role in this?**

How Are Teens Cyberbullied?
Being a victim of cyberbullying can be a common and painful experience. Some youth who cyberbully When teens were asked why they think others cyberbully, 81 percent said that cyberbullies think it’s funny. Other teens believe that youth who cyberbully 3) [] Bullying is aggressive behavior that is intentional and involves an imbalance of power or strength. Usually, it is repeated over time. Traditionally, bullying has involved actions such as: hitting or punching (physical bullying), teasing or name-calling (verbal bullying), or intimidation through gestures or social exclusion. In recent years, technology has given children and youth a new means of bullying each other. Cyberbullying, which is sometimes referred to as online social cruelty or electronic bullying, has been defined as "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" (Smith et al., 2008, p. 376). __The Different ways to be cyber bullied!__ Alot of times we think of cyberbullying as just horse play and not a serious issue. But cyber bulliying it much more than just the school yard bully and carries over to the internet which has the oppurtunity to reach millions. Cyberbullying is most often targets with direct attacks, the top ten direct attacks are: Some of the direct attacks listed are not as common as other ones so we will be focusing on the top three. The first major type of cyber bullying is harassment through instant messaging and text messages. Many kids will send thratening and hateful messages that are used to intimidate and put down another peer. Also, kids will start a text war which picks on one individual and the others will send thousands of IM's/ text messages that can be very hurtful. Some messages even escalate to death threats and messages that can lead to a person harming themselves. Another rising way to cyber bully is to steal passwords. Kids will steal another persons password and pretend to be them so they can send messages to people sying hateful or embarrsing things about them. Also, a kid may use the password to chang the persons profile to say embarrasing or hateful things so everyone can see and may bring unwanted attention. Examples are sexuality, racisism and inappropriate things. With a stolen password students will also lock the other child out of there account so they can not get into the account. One more last way to cyber bully is blogs. When students are blogging they can write just about anything and it is their own online journal. Students will use their blogs to say what is on their mind and that includes attacking and harrasing students. Kids sometimes will use blogs to damage other kids reputations or invade their privacy. An example of this is when a boy posted a bunch of blogs about his breakup with his ex-girlfriend, which explained how she destroyed his life and listed false information about her.. He called her degrading and inappropriate names that their mutual friends read about and they ended up criticizing her and she became very embarrassed. Another way to attack kids with a blog is to set up a blog pretending to be their victim and saying things designed to humiliate them. As you can see their are numerous ways to cyber bully and it will take alot of work and teaching to help prevent cyberbullying from causing pain to our youth. Sources: []
 * Pretend they are other people online to trick others
 * Spread lies and rumors about victims
 * Trick people into revealing personal information
 * Send or forward mean text messages
 * Post pictures of victims without their consent
 * Don’t think it’s a big deal
 * Don’t think about the consequences
 * Are encouraged by friends
 * Think everybody cyberbullies
 * Think they won’t get caught
 * Instant messaging/ text messaging harrasement
 * Stealing passwords
 * Blogs
 * Web sites
 * Sending pictures through email and cell phones
 * Internet Polling
 * Interactive gaming
 * Sending Malicous codes
 * Sending porn or other junk e-mails
 * Impersonation