Cyber-bullying, naturally, is a relatively new phenomenon. While one could find examples of rude, malicious, and harassing behavior going back to the first days of email, AOL, and instant messaging, what is referred to as cyber-bullying today has grown alongside Web 2.0 and social networking.
Cyber-bullying is often used to refer to attacks made against minors, while harassment of adults is generally called cyber-stalking. Both are demonstrably harmful to the victim, and often there is little that victims and law enforcement can do.
Check out the Wikipedia entry for the topic here.
Cyber-bullying is often used to refer to attacks made against minors, while harassment of adults is generally called cyber-stalking. Both are demonstrably harmful to the victim, and often there is little that victims and law enforcement can do.
Check out the Wikipedia entry for the topic here.
3 Case of Cyber-bullying
ReplyDelete1. There are lots of internet cafes or blogs made and used to bully or harass to their clase mates.
2. One Korean TV star can be an example of cyber-bully because his ex-boy friend, Christoper, spread her private video by internet.
3. Cara Pines got cyber-bullying from her friend. Her friend commented bad writing on her facebook because she was upset from that Cara didn't sign up the shared flat.
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In Massachusetts, there was a girl ‘Phoebe Prince’ who took her own life on Jan 14th 2010 due to the cyber-bullying. After this tragedy, the anti-bullying legislation has been passed that it requires schools to report and investigate bullying cases. The new law attempts to address the ambiguities surrounding a school’s role in bullying and cyberbullying cases. These efforts would bring clarity to a school’s role in dealing with bullying and to support teachers and staff with the right training to be most effective in that role.
ReplyDeleteThanks. I wrote about the specific reaction of the state government of MA.
Howard.
cyberbullying
ReplyDelete1. whole group members deny being a friend with someone on online(like facebook, cyworld, etc)
2. Making a anti cafe which targetting someone. For example, famous Korean idol singer Moon hee jun had more than 100,000 anti fans.
3. comment bad word like sexual asault. It can read to suicide.
For example, famous actor Choi jin Sil got shocked from anti reply so she decided to fall down to the ground
1. Two girls were taken out from Ascham school, one of the elite schools due to their defamatory cyber bullying activity. Their Myspace posting contained alleged sexual proclivities, drinking, drug use and relations of other students.
ReplyDelete2. A 16 years old girl Megan Meier killed herself because she was being bullied by a fabricated online account.
3. A student from Rutgers committed a suicide because of his roommates’ cyber bullying activity. Webcam and twitter message was used to spy him and it led him to kill himself by leaping from the Bridge. It shows cyber bullying isn’t just from middle and high schoolers but colleges should be aware of it,too.
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1) David Knight said: "I was accused of being a pedophile. I was accused of using the date rape drug on little boys" in an website anonymously created. After that he also receive continually e-mails like the following: "Here's an e-mail, 'You're gay, don't ever talk again, no one likes you, you're immature and dirty, go wash your face."
2) Jodi Plumb (15), discovered an entire web site created to insult and threaten her. The site contained abuse concerning her weight and even had a date for her "death."
3) After Ghyslain Raza (15) make a film of himself emulating a Star Wars fight scene wielding a golf ball retriever as a light saber, he became an unwilling celebrity after the film was posted on the Internet by some classmates. Millions downloaded the two-minute clip and the media dubbed him the "Star Wars kid." Ghyslain was so wounded by the unflattering attention that he has been under psychiatric care and finished the 2004 school year at a child psychiatry ward. His parents have launched a lawsuit.
Examples:
ReplyDelete1. Tyler Clementi, an 18-year-old freshman, killed himself after learning that his roommate had secretly spied on his sexual encounter with another man using a webcam and then sharing the footage.
2. Carney Bonner, a 14-year-old boy, began to self-harm after reading facebook messages such as "you're nothing" and "you should go and kill yourself".
3. Phoebe Prince, a 15-year-old girl, took her own life after months of being bullied online and in school by nine high school students.
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Currently, we see a lot of cases of cyber bullying happening around the world and more and more people take their own lives. Cyber bullying has more power than just bullying because many unknown people can join the activity very quickly and easily under the condition of anonymity and 24-hour access to the Internet. It is a rapidly growing side effect of the Internet and thus I think it must be stopped before it hurts more people. Government actions should be taken to some extent and more importantly, people should be morally educated to be able to acknowledge the significance of this problem.
Natalie Farzenah, a 15-year-old student, set up a Facebook account after suffering bullying at school. She thought if she started an account, people would get to know her more and might stop giving her abuse. However, she became a victim of Cyber-bullying and even contemplated suicide. In the end, she did not choose ignore it or turning off the computer passively but stood up for herself.
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Tablo is one of Korean hip-hop singers. He graduated Stamford University and earned a bacheolor's and master's degree from there. Because of this, he managed to get a lot of attention. In fact, that attention backlashed on Tablo. For reasons unknown, netizens formed a cyber lynch squad, insisting that Tablo faked his education credentials. One online community – “We Want Tablo to Tell the Truth” – saw its membership soar from 30,000 to 40,000 where people tried to ask him to show what paper he wrote for his master’s and blamed him on manipulation. The singer was severely hurt by the people and said he would not appeal on TV anymore. All after, his argument on his education was found all right and the bullies were accused of encouraging other netizens to post abusive comments on the internet.
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1. Police are investigation whether cyberbullies contributed to the suicide of a teen in N.Y. Alexis Pilkington, 17, took her own life after she signed up with FormSpringMe.com, a new social networking sute, where many of the attacks appeared.
ReplyDeleteThe nasty messages continued to show up online even after her death.
2. One of the highest profile cases of cyberbullying was that a Missouri teen, Megan Meier who, authorities charged, was driven to suicide after taunts from her classmate's mother.
3. In Massachusetts, fifteen-year-old Phoebe Prince and eleven-year-old Carl Joseph took their own lives after unrelenting bullying pushed them over the edge.
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Amanda Cumming Case
ReplyDeleteAmanda Cumming, a teenager, killed her self after being tormented by bullies.
Her Uncle tells media that her classmates mocked her even after school by Social networking services, and by cellphone making Amanda to suffer 24-7.
Relatives say she was a pretty, popular girl but had been tormented by a group of female classmates at New Dorp High School for about three months because of an older boy.
Abusive message have been posted on her memorial Facebook page even as her family and friends attended her funeral in Staten Island, New York.
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Kakao talk jail.
ReplyDeletePeople using the app "kakao talk" randomly pick the cell phone number and invite his/her chat room continuously. There's only way to get out of this jail is to click on "exit" but people in the room will invite him/her back and forth. This will affect battery running out quicker and block signals from the others. Kakao talk is now developing the function for getting rid of this, but this is still ongoing issues with kakao talk user. According to the enormous number of kakao talk users, this is severe concerning of app developer as well. People even try to trace someone's personal information through user's ID and cell phone number.
- Youngsoo
Ayesha, a 15 year old girl, whose life revolved around a huge friend circle that she had, quite well-known for her academics and famous for her debating skills but nobody knew that she had to go through the biggest ebb of her life. The flamboyance of social networking sites touched her when she met a friend online called Aditya. The daily conversations paved a way for amiable friendship ultimately flowering into teenage love. But the unforeseen trouble of exams forced her to unmoor from the cyber world. The sudden disappearance of Ayesha festered Aditya, who by then became obsessed of her. His obsession reached a zenith when he started posting threatening warnings on her wall that if she didn’t reply he will tell everyone about the sleazy conversations that they had. Reviving back to cyber space she found slanderous matter posted on her wall. The world of confident and valiant Ayesha shattered. Traumatized by the ill the affects of cyber space she decided to escape by committing suicide, which to her was a better option than to be in the bad books of her parents.
ReplyDeleteAs part of a global poll, the survey found more than three out of 10 parents (32 per cent) in India saying their children have been victims of cyberbullying.
The frequency of cyberbullying of children in India is higher than that in western nations, including the US.
US (15 per cent of children), UK (11 per cent of children) and France (5 per cent of children)," Ipsos India Head (Marketing Communications) Biswarup Banerjee said
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ReplyDeletethere has been several cyber tragedies in korea which lead people to suicide in the end. Mostly the people who were targeted were celebrities. In case of EUNEE, a korean dance singer, she suffered from so many malicious comments about her on popular korean cyber web sites like cyworld, and cyber news articles. she was insulted by haters on the ground that she once (or more times) had plastic surgery, and she enjoyed performing 'kind of' sexual dances as if she was a prostitute. The haters eventually made rumors of her and these bad comments on her spreaded out all over the cyber spaces. Also, there were people who tried to stalk her not only in the cyber world, but also in the real world. eventually her reputation was dropped off and unrecoverably hurted, and her private life was seriously invaded by the stalkers. Even though most of the rumors of her were actually groundless and baseless, she'd got a social phobia that she thought all the people on the earth would hate her, and this made her start refusing to meet anybody. eventually, she killed herself as if there was no another choice.