Bystander Intervention In Cyberbullying

Cyberbullies do not have to be strong or fast; they just need access to a cell phone or computer and a desire to terrorize. Anyone can be a cyberbully, and such persons usually have few worries about having face-to-face confrontation with their victims. In fact, the anonymity of cyberbullying may cause students who normally would not bully in the tradition-sense to become a cyberbully (Poland, 2010).

Bullying is defined as an intentional act that causes harm to others, and may involve verbal harassment, verbal or non-verbal threats, physical assault, stalking, or other methods of coercion such as manipulation, blackmail, or extortion. Without a doubt bullying, has become an increasing epidemic among individuals today. “The bulling cycle,” according to Dan Olweus, a world-renowned psychologist from Norway, there needs to be three individuals or groups of people involved: the bully, the victim and the bystander. The process begins with simple taunts and can escalate into behavior requiring legal intervention. In fact, several cases have been presented to courts for both criminal and civil prosecution. Another key factor in the progression of bullying cases is the internet. Today’s bullies need not be physically present

As I entered high school, the prevalence of cyberbullying hit me like a ton of bricks. Over the years, as smartphones became more advanced, there was a shift from verbal and physical bullying to cyber

Cyberbullying is a major problem Young people have hurt themselves because of cyberbullying. School Administrators sometimes feel they have to punish students for online activity, even if it happens off-campus,

Anyone can be caught in a bullying situation either as a bully, a victim or a bystander. Since the internet is widely used by anyone from all different age groups and is used publicly or privately, it is hard to know a person 's real identity. There are many instances where the bully is hiding his or her identity and one cannot see who is the predator. As for the victims, many had publicly written down some suicidal thoughts online or described how their life is complicated online or offline. For instance, a young girl claimed to be the richest girl on the app and was commanding people to be her peasant. She was harassing the other players with rude comments. The reason she chose to resent everyone was because she was once bullied before. Based on the studies on cyberbullying, the evidence strongly suggests that our mental health plays a part on how people bully others.

Most of the incident in regards with bullying are either online or on campus. When it occurs in campus most of the students surrounding the occasion of when bullying occurs become the bystanders and prefer not to take action upon it to try to avoid being in it when since the beginning the teens were already part of the problem. The teens believe that being part of the problem is when their is a verbal accusation and believe that just watching the bullying occur will avoid the teen from being involved in the situation. In the survey the students were asked if one of their friends have been bullied and if they were a bystander. Surprisingly 628 students said that seeing bullying and stopping the problems was not a part of the teens experience in high school. In the other hand only 247 students said that they were bystanders. Usually when a teen becomes the bystanders it's to entertain the crowd of kids around causing the bully to feel more in power of the

Tori Robertson The effects of bullying face to face for the victim are many. A bystander is someone who watches the victim get harassed by another person. The result of the incident on the one who is watching can have either negative or positive consequences.

The Center presented the officials with a made-up scenario in which a student, using the web, threatened to inflict bodily harm on another student. On a scale of one to ten, one meaning no law enforcement role was required and ten requiring a “significant” role, the respondents rated the situation a 9.1. This was the scenario that drew the strongest approval of police intervention (Patchin). Interestingly, one of Rebecca Sedwick’s tormentors told her to die via a Facebook post (Slifer, Fla. Girls). In such a case, the Cyberbullying Research Center instructed law enforcement officials to discuss publicly the consequences of cyberbullying for education and deterrence purposes (Patchin). Obviously, talking things over cannot prevent everything, but it increases awareness in school administrators and parents. The Center also asserted officers should “discipline students for conduct outside of school if it infringes on the rights of other students or causes material disruptions to the school’s learning environment” (Patchin). Ultimately, the Center left interpretations of cyberbullying incidents and the required responses to the officers themselves. In fact, the Center more clearly defines law enforcement’s role in cyberbullying cases in its general statement found on its homepage. The document says officials should

The second article by Gavrilets (2012), the egalitarian syndromes’ evolutionary origins are discussed in order to explain some contributions to the bystander effect. He discusses monkeys, apes, and other animals. A limitation could be that some of the points discussed in regards to animals could differ to humans in the bystander or egalitarian syndrome context. Another limitation is that in a study by Fonseca, Brauer, Moisuc, & Nugier (2013), it’s discussed that people who have a high cognitive load are prone to intervene less in a critical

Bullying is one major quandary consisting of aggression with students and adults of any age through many different forms of communication resulting in detrimental consequences. Within the article Parental Mediation, Online Activities, and Cyberbullying, (Mesch, G., S., Ph.D., 2009), it’s explaining that bullying is a monotonous destruction perpetrated upon someone by users of such emailing, texting, cell phones, and of slander within social networking sites. There have been several occasions that cyberbullying has led to death of the victim of constant lies and aggression from the bully. Bullies often just don’t prey on unknown assailants, they actually know their victim through channels in their lives. “Traditional bullying can take many forms, whether it is through direct physical contact or indirect relationally aggressive routes, such as spreading hateful rumor about a peer or excluding others from group membership or participation” (Burton, Florell, & Wygant 2013, pg. 103, para 1). As we can see a massive diversity from that of traditional bullying that is it’s opened up globally spreading like wildfire that is uncontrollable. An example of the brutality bullying has brought, can be told by Burton, Florell, & Wygant (2013), pg. 103, as they continue to point out another author’s example of a tragedy to bullying “for instance, in 2006, 13-year old Megan Meier committed suicide after a neighbor created a Fake Myspace identity of a boy who, after flirting, harassed and broke up with her (Breuer,

After reading this article, there was a better understanding in why cyberbullying is occurring more often in children. Individuals mostly focused on the victim and do not show empathy toward the victimizer. Not having compassion to his side of the story, where I may be facing bullying in his own life. This source was used in the essay to show that compassion toward the victimizer can help him eases the troubles or traumas he has to become a better individual.

Bystanders, in bullying cases, often claim innocence. After all, they had no active role, so why should they face punishment? It is easy to connect the bully’s actions to

However, teachers are not the only ones helping the victims. Several research studies have looked at the role of bystanders in bullying students. Teachers and students who witness bullying can work together to reduce bullying in schools and classrooms. But there is also evidence that those who were bystanders were not willing to help the victims (Espelage, Green, & Polanin, 2012). Students often do not support victims when there are multiple witnesses (Salmicalli, 2010). Students expect someone else to intervene or ignore the victim or may consider the bullying to be a joke ( Terasahjo & Salmivalli, 2003). Consequently, bullied victims feel that they are not only suffering pain from being bullied, but also from being ignored by peers (Salmavalli & Poskirparta, 2012).

Sources life i-Safe, which is known as the “leader in internet safety education”, have statistics about the amount of cyberbullying that students have to deal with, but they have not been updated since 2004-over ten years ago(Cushing, 2013). Even if those sources were updated, many schools now set aside whole lessons to learn about cyberbullying and what to do about it, providing them with sources for the victim or other concerned people to take care of the situation(Robinson & Segal,

Forty-two percent of children have been bullied online, and one in four have had it happen to them more than once, according to "Cyber Bullying is a Virus." Being a bystander would be terrifying. Just imagine if you were them. You would want it to stop. Being a bystander would be worse because you would feel guilty, you may get in trouble, you may be seen as a "tattle tale" if you were to tell, but most don’t tell making the victim feel more pain.