Misogynistic Cyber-Bullying Summary And Analysis

“I would rather be a little nobody, then an evil somebody,” (Abraham Lincoln). Cyber bullying is a national epidemic. It makes victims feel confused or unwanted. Many teenagers and even adults do not always think about what one comment on the internet can do. The author, Elissa Janine Hoole, shows how victims feel in exceptional detail. Sometimes Never, Sometimes Always has countless strengths, but also has it’s weakness’. This book is a something that every teenager should read. It covers almost everything someone this age would face; bullying, social media, religion, change. The characters can relate to anyone in middle school, and the reader can feel more connected to the story.

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” There is no doubt that this has been said an innumerable amount of times over the past century, but just how true is it? It is true that words cannot hurt one on a physical level, but just how mentally damaging can they be? In 2014 “83 percent of girls, and 79 percent of boys report being bullied either at school or online” (“Bullying Statistics”) and in 2009 an average of “68 of teens [that were surveyed] agree[d] that cyber bullying is a serious problem” (“11 Facts About Cyber Bullying”) Bullying must be stopped; to help prevent it, states need to implement laws stating that bullying is a misdemeanor (at the very least) and require school administrators to host anti-bullying

Cyberbullying, once thought of as a tormentor among teens, is rapidly increasing among adults in a wide range of internet outlets that allow information to be shared on a global scale for the destruction of a victim’s life on a social, an educational, and an employment wide strike. The rise in adult cyber-bullying affects female individuals at a much more alarming rate than their male counterparts. This misogynistic cyber-bullying tendency is brought to light in the book, “The Offensive Internet,” by Martha Craven Nussbaum, and Saul X. Levmore, with the following statistics; “The nonprofit organization Working to Halt Online Abuse explains that, from 2000 to 2007, 72.5 percent of the individuals reporting cyber harassment identified themselves

For the research process of annotated bibliography essay, I used the website http://www.loc.gov/library/libarch-digital.html to research about my topic. The key words I used to find sources are “Social network”. First, I tried to find as much as sources about the social network topic. But, I realized that I have to narrow the topic because social network topic are too wide. After reading many sources, I decided to narrow my topic from social network to cyber bullying and how the social network affect to the teenagers.

In this newspaper article, the author helps the reader understand and how to treat cyber bullying. The author explains what bullying is and how it is modernized to become cyber bullying. The article informs the reader of main point, in a brief but effective description about recognizing and treating cyber bullying. The author show great statistical research on her topic but not enough the emotional appeal. It provides good use to my research because of the extensive use on how it should be treated.

Online bullying has become a sort of epidemic in social media. Bullying has transferred itself from reality into cyberspace where insults can stay online forever and be quantified to a wider and larger public audience. People have committed suicide over online bullying, and have their lives drastically change. Many reasearchers suggest that empathy can disappear online since we don’t see the facial and body cues that creates empathy. People are free to say what they want about their victim without much care about how the other person might feel about that comment. A person can have a second identiy online where they lash out, but in real life still consider themselves as a normal person with constructed morals. Although bullying has found a thriving home on social media; positive messages can spread on the internet as well. Motivational messages and humour can affect a person’s mentality for the rest of the day.

Bullying can be identified since the beginning of written history. Its in human nature to feel the need to create a class system and define it, from the Lepers and Jews in the bible, to the Salem Witch trials, to the African American civil rights movement; these are all severe cases of bullying. It is often cruel in nature and modern day bullying is no exception. Cyberbullying is, simply stated, the evolved state of modern bullying. Why is cyberbullying on the rise and how do you stop it?

The following literature review is all about how cyber bullying affects the life of the ones who got bullied, the chances of committing suicide among the victims and the laws in several states regarding cyber bullying.

What is your stance on cyber bullying. Lots of people believe cyber bullying should be illegal. Cyber bullying should not be a federal offense.

Bulling is a very serious problem in our society, it can affect various people around the world, not just physically, but also mentally and socially. Bullying has become such a big concern to the point it is affecting people all around the world that needs the most attention that it can get. When teenagers feel bad about themselves, they tend to think that since they feel that way, everybody else should feel the same way, thinking that it would better themselves. Bullying a person can take another person onto another level, such as depression, suicide, low self-esteem or even doing to someone else what was done to them, or something they’ve seen. Bullying can not only come from being bullied by a person, but can also come from watching it happen,

Years ago bullying was generally thought of as an occurrence that took place in person, on the schoolyard, between people who have a “peer-to-peer” relationship. (Whittaker, Kowalski, 2015) We’re all familiar with what bullying looks like in a traditional sense. Larger kids, picking on the weaker, usually do to something that makes the victim stand out as different. In Kowalski, Limber, and Agatston’s book, “Cyberbullying : Bullying in the Digital Age” they introduced some real life examples:

Twenty percent of high school students admit to being a victim and/or participating in cyberbullying (“Cyberbullying”). This form of bullying that takes place on the Internet, is beginning to become a major problem in our society. Cyber bullying must be terminated in order to prevent teenage depression, fights breaking out in schools, and adolescences growing up to become criminals.

Cyberbullying is bullying which occurs via utilization of electronic technology; electronic technology incorporates apparatuses and paraphernalia for instance cellular phones, computers, and tablets in addition to communication instruments which embrace social broadcasting sites, text messages, chat, and websites. Illustrations of cyberbullying include a derogatory text messages or emails, rumors sent through email or posted on social networking sites, and embarrassing pictures, videos, websites, or counterfeit profiles. (StopBullying.gov)

The implementation period of the program is expected to last for at least three terms, starting in May and going through December, then restarting in January after the holiday break and running through the following May.

Ortega, et al., (2012) found that bullying victims all have their own emotional responses when they experience cyberbullying. Most of the time, victims felt angry; however, some were not bothered at all. Less common outcomes that victims report after being cyberbullied include feeling ashamed and endangered (Ortega, et al., 2012). In other words, victims who are cyberbullied have more control over their feelings about the situation than those who have been bullied in person. This can result in victims having difficulties with coping strategies because they are not used to a cyberbullying environment (Ortega, et al., 2012). Since cyberbullying can happen to anyone who has access to technology and without the need for face to face interaction, victims can more easily hide their feelings from the aggressor. However, victims who are not bothered by being cyberbullied could be in trouble too. Ortega, et al., (2012) states that the reason why victims choose to ignore is possible because of the victims’ lack of awareness, seeing cyberbullying as a lesser danger than traditional bullying. As stated before, some cyberbullying behaviours are less harmful than others. It is also easier to ignore cyberbullying than traditional bullying. During a face-to-face interaction with a bully, the emotions on the victim’s face can be seen clearly and it is harder to ignore that. The emotional response of victims of traditional bullying could easily be altered since they can read the intentions of