SOC 4010 Lecture Notes - Cyberbullying, Current Literature, Cyberworld
19 Sep 2012
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Bullying begins in elementary school, peaks in middle school and begins to dissipate throughout high school. Cyberbullying, however, begins and peaks in middle school and then remains constant throughout high school. (li 2008, englander 2012, slovak & A study of 21,000 massachusetts schoolchildren between october 2010 and. February 2011 found that about one fourth of middle- and high-schoolers reported being physically bullied, and more than double that number reported being taunted or called a name. (englander, 2012). Cyberbullying is defined as: the use of electronic devices, computers, cell phones etc. , with the intention to bully or cause harm to others. (li 2008, haymann & schnackenberg. Other terms for cyberbullying include online bullying, online harassment, and. Electronic bullying. it can include online fighting, harassment, stalking, impersonation, outing, trickery, exclusion, and more. (slovak & singer, 2011). Bullying is a repeated negative action towards someone with the intention to harm them in some way.
