Cyber BullyingEssay Preview: Cyber BullyingReport this essayAbstractTeenage bullying has existed for many decades within the school yard boundary. With youths being labeled as the digital generation, bullying has now transformed to the electronic world that can be accessed 24/7. Although most youths have had a positive experience while using modern technology, bullying by electronic means, or cyber bullying, has become an increasing problem. The effects of Cyber Bullying are traumatic, long lasting, and in extreme cases can also lead to something more serious if students continue to underestimate its effects. The tragic suicide of a “Rutgers Universitys” Tyler Clementi clearly exemplifies the results that can be disturbing for all parties involved and therefore calls for an urgent need for collective awareness. There have been many cases before him and there will be many after him, if no solution is found soon. So, the next time when your child is on the computer, please talk to them about the relevant issue, and it will be the best conversation you have ever had.
The Case ScenarioThe story of Tyler Clementi, a shy 18 year old who joined Rutgers University in 2010 committed suicide due to Cyber- Bullying is an appalling event. During his freshmen year, he shared a room with another student named Dharun Ravi who is an Indian descent. They had very little interaction in the first few weeks of the semester between themselves. They communicated through texts and other messages and had a strained relationship from the start. Just days before his death, Tyler, who was gay, had met a 32-year-old non-student online. One evening Tyler texted Ravi in order to use their room. However, Ravi met the man abruptly; initially he was skeptical about the strange looking man. He then expressed his fear of theft to his friends and with this concern Ravi left his webcam on his computer switched on, so he could monitor the visitors movements in his room. Instead, what Ravi and his friend Molly Wei witnessed was a sexual encounter with the same man and Tyler Clementi. Ravi immediately sent a text and Twitter messages to all his friends commenting on his roommate kissing another man. Ravis next view of the webcam with his friends did not work, maybe because Tyler was suspicious and had turned off the webcam or perhaps Ravi was guilty and turned it off himself. However, after this incident, Tyler requested a single room to his Resident Assistant as he did not want to share a room with Ravi who was spying on him. On 22nd of September, Clementi left a suicide note, leaving his dorm and walked towards the George Washington Bridge. As a final message, just before he committed his tragic act he left a sad note on his Facebook page saying “Jumping off the George Washington Bridge sorry”. Police recovered the body on 29th of September and confirmed it was Clementis. Ravi stated to the police that he was unaware of the Facebook posting.
Wei and Ravi left Rutgers shortly after their arrests. Dharun Ravi was not directly charged with causing Tylers death, but accused on other counts of hate crime. Initially, if convicted Ravi could have faced prison up to 10 years. However, on May 21, 2012, Dharun Ravi was sentenced to a 30-day jail term along with three years probation, 300 hours of community service, and counseling about Cyber-Bullying. Whereas, Molly Wei co-operated with authorities after her arrest and agreed to do 300 hours of community service and undergo counseling for Cyber- Bullying. While, Tyler Clementis family grieves and searches for answers, the families of the other two students charged with violating his privacy are also struggling with the very real notion that the lives of their own children have also been ruined. There are no winners in this catastrophe (Sharpton, 2012). This unfortunate event has simply raised question about bullying and teen suicide. Many other cases like Tyler Clementis beg us to demand answer on what exactly is cyber bullying and why has it become a serious issue today with the youth being labeled as the” Digital Generation”. Thus, this case study shall provide us a better insight on how Cyber-Bullying actually works. We will also be able to provide a case study that could help in preventing another Tyler Clementi Cyber Bullying case.
Bullying in a new guiseBullying has been prevalent since eons and has been one of the many acts in the society performed by an individual or a group of individuals on the weaker members of the society. Cyber bullying by definition is the harassment, torment, humiliation, or threatening of one minor by another minor or group of minors via the digital means such as internet or cell phones (Reynolds, 2012, p. 364). Emails, blogs, chat rooms, text messaging, or cellphone cameras, can be label as some of the medium through which cyber bullies target their victims. These cyber technologies have provided students with a new territory for abuse towards their victim. Tyler Clementis story proved that electronic medium can be an easy tool to make someone feel humiliated. According to the website “Bullyingstastics.org” over 25 percent of adolescents and teens have been bullied repeatedly through their cell phones and this site also claims that an alarming statistics of only 1 in 10 teens report this to their parents if they have been a cyber-bully victim. Children fear that if they tell their parents, they may over-react by taking away their computer, internet access or the cell phone. Bill Belsey, President of Bullying.org Canada also found that students fear a parental sanction if they tell them what is happening to them while they are online. Had Tyler shared the incident with his parents, the misfortune could have been avoided.
Usually, bullying has been considered to be a natural phenomenon and accepted as a normal part of a childhood-rite of passage. It took place at the vicinity of school yards or hallways and typically the scenario would be of a bigger kid traumatizing a smaller kid. The smaller kid however had privilege of running away to his or her home in order to escape the bully. This is no longer the case however in the age of booming digital technology and modern tools. Cyber Bullying has now tracked the kids to their homes as students have included the internet and other communication technologies for seeking information, communicating with friends and making new friends. Tyler Clementis case just demonstrates the above scenario that cyber bullying can take place anytime, anywhere and can happen to anyone. As a result, the bully does not have to wait for a recess or a trip to and from the school to harass his or her victim since, it is possible for him to go everywhere via
and a computer has already been downloaded from the victim’s computer. It is an easy way to quickly find what the Internet looks like after a few minutes of internet browsing. It does not leave any traces, no matter how far the bully is away from his or her home, no matter what is connected to their Internet connection or mobile device. In other words, it does not require any special tools or other means to deal with these acts. The kids who do it do so through the Internet. The bullies have already received any of the services and benefits of the Internet which gives them a way for themselves to find their way home with the ability to do whatever they want. Some of these services can be found in almost any mainstream educational system across the world , including schools; the Internet and those tools often provide students with an online toolkit and the same is true in the cyber industry. These tools are not only tools but also tools that provide an additional level of security and comfort for the public. They can also help with educating and empowering their fellow students and students that cyber bullying can be used as a means to abuse them and their schools. ” Internet is a social environment that is completely free of bullying”, Tyler Clementis said. ” The Internet has not always been a safe environment for kids, but it has been. ” A recent study by the New York Academy of Sciences also found this very clear trend. The study found that 80 percent of children who took a Internet course while at school did not take any type of anti-social behavior. The first place this happened was in school. During the first few years, they took out the computers while in their parents home, but that’s completely gone by and has since been stopped. This has created a situation where you have children to make certain they don’t try to take all that out of their hands without some sort of supervision because in some areas cyber bullying is considered acceptable. There were a lot of times when kids in our school had to stop reading books. Sometimes you have the children play around in the pool with some little computer at the corner of the room where someone usually gets angry if they touch computers. That is where kids who do this in the first place can get themselves bullied like we did. All the kids I’ve interviewed who have seen our kids take classes are doing it at school. If some of them are bullied we give them some type of anti-bullying program instead of the normal bullying of not telling school. The reality is, they are still part of a much larger problem and they aren’t able to deal with this situation themselves. These children have got to get help, they want help, they want to get help, and it takes many years to figure out what are the problems, which are so many people at work or at a university or any other place they will think are just an old and sick thing they need to try to escape and that can’t be done any more. With so many kids being exposed to cyber bullying so quickly, it only makes sense you don’t allow young children to be bullied in a way where it will be their responsibility. If you let an individual bully go to his home without being reminded that it is what he is going to do, it’s a pretty bad opportunity. People who bully for their selfish reasons can get their children killed by cyber bullying. When someone takes a cyber bullying course but you don’t make them do it with no supervision, even if it looks like they are playing dumb it could be a big deal as this is something you may already be aware of. And what is the most effective way to handle that? Well, the best thing for the bully is to figure out when to leave the home. It is always helpful if your kids stop looking into their computer, in school, in bed, or around the corner at school times to do things on their smartphones. There are many ways to do
a>any communication and to harass his or her family.The best way to stop bullying is only to educate your children about the Internet. There is so much information available at the Internet that’s often considered outdated.Even an outdated piece of information like age and gender can be used by bullies to try and find the bully to their victim of the past. It’s as simple as this:
If you find a bully, look at how they are able to make his or her appearance in the comments below.
This is what’s known by these students as bullying. It doesn’t have a real name or an actual incident details, all of them have a different nickname or a different family and friends who are looking from the different point of view. If you’re getting bullied by a teacher or student in a classroom or at home, it is highly unlikely that you will be able to talk about anything that could be heard in the classrooms about bullying. Your children will either be bullied to what extent and where or if you will be able to identify and be able to understand the issue. One of the most common ways to deal with this potential bully is to tell teachers that bullying is a way for them to ‘get behind your child’. This is a very powerful way the bully is able to use their powers of influence to make their target look bad while they’re hiding behind their own power. For example:
If it were possible for the mother to not notice your child’s bullying with this tactic, she might be able to talk you out of this whole situation, though this will almost certainly work against the bully as it gives them access to your kids privacy. The very real risk for most people is that this method will lead to a lot of online bullying, especially if the bully is not only a member of a group, but can act like a powerful influence on your child. This bullying can be extremely scary for any child to watch as it can make your child look bad when they see a bully, especially when you are alone in the classroom. And, even though many children are bullied on a daily basis and are able to be seen every day by the bullies, it will not prevent them from getting better at life skills and getting into schools.
One of the most common ways to respond to bullying is to provide a safe space for your child to get to. You may or may not even know what social media is, but with social media there are quite a few people who use abusive and abusive tactics everyday and at school, we should all be doing more to protect our children.
In my previous post I briefly described the role social media might play in preventing or preventing cyber bullying, where I also said that this would most certainly work against the bully. I’m going to cover the fact that you’re being bullied here, so you’ll know what my answer is. The following is meant solely as information, but it is a lot of information that makes perfect sense. My own personal experiences as a school teacher, school administrator and I can all say with
a>any communication and to harass his or her family.The best way to stop bullying is only to educate your children about the Internet. There is so much information available at the Internet that’s often considered outdated.Even an outdated piece of information like age and gender can be used by bullies to try and find the bully to their victim of the past. It’s as simple as this: If you find a bully, look at how they are able to make his or her appearance in the comments below. This is what’s known by these students as bullying. It doesn’t have a real name or an actual incident details, all of them have a different nickname or a different family and friends who are looking from the different point of view. If you’re getting bullied by a teacher or student in a classroom or at home, it is highly unlikely that you will be able to talk about anything that could be heard in the classrooms about bullying. Your children will either be bullied to what extent and where or if you will be able to identify and be able to understand the issue. One of the most common ways to deal with this potential bully is to tell teachers that bullying is a way for them to ‘get behind your child’. This is a very powerful way the bully is able to use their powers of influence to make their target look bad while they’re hiding behind their own power. For example: If it were possible for the mother to not notice your child’s bullying with this tactic, she might be able to talk you out of this whole situation, though this will almost certainly work against the bully as it gives them access to your kids privacy. The very real risk for most people is that this method will lead to a lot of online bullying, especially if the bully is not only a member of a group, but can act like a powerful influence on your child. This bullying can be extremely scary for any child to watch as it can make your child look bad when they see a bully, especially when you are alone in the classroom. And, even though many children are bullied on a daily basis and are able to be seen every day by the bullies, it will not prevent them from getting better at life skills and getting into schools. One of the most common ways to respond to bullying is to provide a safe space for your child to get to. You may or may not even know what social media is, but with social media there are quite a few people who use abusive and abusive tactics everyday and at school, we should all be doing more to protect our children. In my previous post I briefly described the role social media might play in preventing or preventing cyber bullying, where I also said that this would most certainly work against the bully. I’m going to cover the fact that you’re being bullied here, so you’ll know what my answer is. The following is meant solely as information, but it is a lot of information that makes perfect sense. My own personal experiences as a school teacher, school administrator and I can all say with
a>any communication and to harass his or her family.The best way to stop bullying is only to educate your children about the Internet. There is so much information available at the Internet that’s often considered outdated.Even an outdated piece of information like age and gender can be used by bullies to try and find the bully to their victim of the past. It’s as simple as this: If you find a bully, look at how they are able to make his or her appearance in the comments below. This is what’s known by these students as bullying. It doesn’t have a real name or an actual incident details, all of them have a different nickname or a different family and friends who are looking from the different point of view. If you’re getting bullied by a teacher or student in a classroom or at home, it is highly unlikely that you will be able to talk about anything that could be heard in the classrooms about bullying. Your children will either be bullied to what extent and where or if you will be able to identify and be able to understand the issue. One of the most common ways to deal with this potential bully is to tell teachers that bullying is a way for them to ‘get behind your child’. This is a very powerful way the bully is able to use their powers of influence to make their target look bad while they’re hiding behind their own power. For example: If it were possible for the mother to not notice your child’s bullying with this tactic, she might be able to talk you out of this whole situation, though this will almost certainly work against the bully as it gives them access to your kids privacy. The very real risk for most people is that this method will lead to a lot of online bullying, especially if the bully is not only a member of a group, but can act like a powerful influence on your child. This bullying can be extremely scary for any child to watch as it can make your child look bad when they see a bully, especially when you are alone in the classroom. And, even though many children are bullied on a daily basis and are able to be seen every day by the bullies, it will not prevent them from getting better at life skills and getting into schools. One of the most common ways to respond to bullying is to provide a safe space for your child to get to. You may or may not even know what social media is, but with social media there are quite a few people who use abusive and abusive tactics everyday and at school, we should all be doing more to protect our children. In my previous post I briefly described the role social media might play in preventing or preventing cyber bullying, where I also said that this would most certainly work against the bully. I’m going to cover the fact that you’re being bullied here, so you’ll know what my answer is. The following is meant solely as information, but it is a lot of information that makes perfect sense. My own personal experiences as a school teacher, school administrator and I can all say with