1. Cyber Bullying
Bullying- (Olweus, 1993) “A person is bullied when he or she is exposed, repeatedly
and over time to negative actions on the part of one or more other persons, and
he or she has difficulty defending himself or herself.
• This definition includes 3 important components:
3. Bullying is aggressive behavior that involves unwanted,
negative actions.
4. Bullying involves a pattern of behavior repeated overtime.
5. Bullying involves an imbalance of power or strength.
Bullying:
-Physical
-Relational/Verbal
-internet
2. Cyber Bullying
• Online Harassment: Aggressive behavior, “harm
doing,” insults, exclusion, outing, activities associated
with hacking-stealing information, breaking into
accounts, damaging websites, profiles, etc.
• Cyber Bullying- harassment online that is
- repeated over time
- involves a power imbalance between a perpetrator
and a victim. (the power imbalance could be the
difference with online skills)
• Perpetrators are often victims themselves.
• Perpetrators are often the same age.
• Internet bullying can be particularly hard to
disentangle.
3. Current Research
from 2007-2010
•54% of teens text daily
•26% have been harassed by voice messages or texts
•47% have sent a text they regretted
•93% of teens 12-17 go on-line
•63% go on-line daily
•89% go on-line from home, and spend the longest amount of time on-line
from home computer
•77% go on-line from school
•71% go on-line from a friends or relatives
•60% from a public library
•27% from their mobile phone
4. Cyber Bullying vs.
Bullying
• Technology is a vehicle
• Persistence of Content
-Editable, alterable
• Disreputability of content
-speed -breadth
• Invasive
5. Cyber Bullying
.
•Somewhere between 1/10th and 1/3rd of teens are being bullied on-line
•Bullying still occurs more off-line in school than on-line
•94% of teens are still going on-line to complete research
•84% go on-line for movies, sports, t.v. shows, or for music
•73% use an on-line social site
•15% report they have had something forwarded without their permission
(email, text, etc.)
•13% have received threatening messages
•13% have had a rumor spread about them
•6% have had an embarrassing picture posted about them
•More girls than boys say they have been bullied
6. Final Thoughts
•More research is needed on this topic
•More Specific definitions of what cyber bullying is
•Remembering that bullying crosses boundaries- it is everywhere
that children are
