What is Cyber bullying

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What is Cyber bullying?

• Cyber bullying involves the use of information
  and communication technologies to support
  deliberate, repeated and hostile behavior by an
  individual or group, that is intended to harm
  others
• Through..
• (Keith Martin, 2004).

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Technologies such as

• email,
• cell phone
• pager
• text messages,
• instant messaging (IM),
• defamatory personal web sites
• defamatory online personal polling web sites
• (Keith Martin, 2004).

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DIFFERENCES

• BULLYING
• DIRECT
• Occurs on
• school property
• Poor relationships
• with teachers
• Fear retribution
• Physical Hitting, Punching Shoving
• Verbal Teasing, Name calling Gossip
• Nonverbal Use of gestures Exclusion
• www.stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov

• CYBERBULLYING
• ANONYMOUS
• Occurs off
• school property
• Good relationships with teachers
• Fear loss of technology privileges
• Further under the radar than bullying
• Emotional reactions cannot be determined
• McKenna Bargh, 2004 Ybarra Mitchell, 2004

From Demystifying and Deescalating Cyber
Bullying by Barbara Trolley, Ph.D. CRC, Connie
Hanel, M.S.E.d Linda Shields, M.S.E.d.
http//www.nyssca.org/CYBERBULLYING-pp-BT28th.ppt
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Cell phones Middle school years

• In 2004 45 online teens have a cellphone
• In 2006, 66 of online teens have a cellphone
• 68 of cellphone owners txt (2006)

Skype - 2003
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Todays Teen
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Today - 2007

• Older Kids Habbo Hotel, Gaia Online Second
  Life
  
• Younger Kids Webkinz, Whyville, Club Penguin

Profiles Switchboards for social life
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Teen Reality

• Mobile gadgets allow them to enjoy media and
  communicate anywhere
  
• 84 report owning at least one personal media
  device a desktop or laptop computer, a cell
  phone or a Personal Digital Assistant
  
• 63 of all teens own a cell phone

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Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M, March
2005
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Kaiser Family Foundation, Generation M, March
2005
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Recently, i-SAFE America conducted a national
survey of more than 1500 students -ranging from
fourth to eighth grade.
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• Gaming on-going.
• Oldest video gamers who grew up with it are
  entering their forties, so some of the younger
  kids have parents who game.
  
• More than 2/3rds of online teens play computer or
  video games.
  

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• Email Its for old people

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• Mobility gaming (DS, PSP), and now continuous
  presence applications take social networks
  mobile
  
• Twitter
• Pownce etc etc etc
• Teens dont use these yet.

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Online Behavior Parent Teen Attitudes

• 81 of parents and 79 of teens agree that kids
  are not as careful as they should be about the
  information they give out online
  
• 62 of parents and 62 of teens agree that kids
  do things online that they wouldnt want their
  parents to know about
  
• Overall, most parents believe that the internet
  is a good thing for their children
  

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Where are the kids going?

• MySpace.com
• Blurty.com
• BlogLines.com
• Xanga.com
• Live Journal.com
• Dead Journal.com
• StudentCenter.org
• Bolt.com
• eCrush.com

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Who engages in Cyber bullying?
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CYBER BULLYING PREVALENCE

• Cyber bullying typically starts at about 9 years
  of age and usually ends after 14 years of age
  after 14, it becomes cyber or sexual harassment
  due to nature of acts and age of actors (Aftab)
• Affects 65-85 of kids in the core group directly
  or indirectly through close friends (Aftab)
  

http//www.aftab.com/
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Sugar Spice?

• Little girls are taught that its much prettier
  to be nice
  
• Result covert forms of aggression Relational
  Aggression (RA)

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Relational Aggression is

• Emotional violence and bullying behavior focused
  on damaging an individuals social connections
  within the peer group.
  
• RA is conditional
• friendship

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More Examples of Relational Aggression

• Spreading Rumors
• Verbal Insults
• Teasing
• Intimidation
• Eye Rolling

• Taunting
• Manipulative Affection
• Three-Way Calling
• Cyber bullying Girls are twice as likely to
  participate in cyber-bullying than are boys
  

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Why Use Technology to Bully?

• Anonymity
• Rapid deployment and dissemination
• Immediate
• Rich medium
• Natural

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How Do PeopleCyber bully Others?

• Exclusion
• Outing
• Polling
• Stalking
• Libel
• Blackmail

• Flaming
• E-mail
• Websites
• Piling via IM
• Impersonation

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What is the Impact of Cyber bullying?

• Psychological, physical, and emotional
• depression, anxiety, anger,
• school failure, school avoidance, suicide, and
  school violence
  
• Role modeling for others which increases
  likelihood of increased bullying
  

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What promotes it?

• You cant see me Im invisible
• Removes concern of detection, approval or
  punishment
  
• Lack of Feedback interferes with empathy
• Rationalization- everybody does it
• Role Playing- take on another personality,
  avatar, persona reinforces just a game
  

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CYBER BULLY CATEGORIES

• Inadvertent
• Role-play
• Responding
• May not realize its cyber bullying
• Vengeful Angel
• Righting wrongs
• Protecting themselves
• Mean Girls
• Bored Entertainment
• Ego based promote own social status
• Often do in a group
• Intimidate on and off line
• Need others to bully if isolated, stop

• Power-Hungry
• Want reaction
• Controlling with fear
• Revenge of the Nerds
• (Subset of Power-Hungry)
• Often Victims of school-yard bullies
• Throw cyber-weight around
• Not school-yard bullies like Power-Hungry Mean
  Girls
  

Parry Aftab. Esq., Executive Director,
WiredSafety.org
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What We Can ALL Do
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• Prevention
• Bully proof child with confidence and resilience
• Pay attention to traits that may lead to
  victimization
  
• Combat the tell all phenomenon
• Discuss it with your child
• Discuss consequences
• Do not support on-line retaliation

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• Monitor
• Keep computer in open, public place in home
• Periodically investigate files, history, online
  activities cookies
  
• Search your childs name online, profiles,
  postings, blogs
  
• Watch for secretive behavior as you approach
  computer
  
• Install key-stroke monitoring software
• Learn the controls that are available from your
  ISP
  
• Engage in computer activities to determine their
  savvy
  

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• What if it happens?
• Assist your child
• Develop personal guidelines for using the net
• Make realistic evaluation of quality of online
  community
  
• Learn to respond assertively, not aggressively
• Change email address, account
• File complaint with ISP, web host
• Gather evidence and keep it
• Do not delete but dont let your child visit
  that site again
  
• Block or filter email

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Continued.

• Contact cyber bully's parents caution
• Contact school staff if happens from school
  equipment
  
• Contact local law enforcement
• Civil litigation

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Internet install monitoring and filtering
programs

• WiredSafety.org
• Teen Angels
• SpectorSoft
• eBlaster
• NetNanny
• SpyAgent
• SoftProbe
• ActivityLogger

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Resources

• Online column about cyberbullying
  (http//www.schoolcounselor.com/pubs/cyberbullying
  -sabella.doc)
  
• http//cyberbully.org/
• Parents guide
• Educators guide more!
• News reports
• National Alliance for Safe Schools
  http//www.safeschools.org/
  
• Provides training, technical assistance, and
  publications to school districts interested in
  reducing school based crime and violence.
  

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Resources

• National Education Associations National
  Bullying Awareness Campaign http//www.nea.org/iss
  ues/safescho/bullying
  
• National School Safety Center http//www.nssc1.org
  /
  
• Provides training, technical assistance, and
  resources on school safety and school crime
  prevention offers training films on various
  issues conducts national public service
  campaigns.
• The Olweus Bullying Prevention Program
  http//modelprograms.samhsa.gov/pdfs/FactSheets/Ol
  weus20Bully.pdf
  
• A model program of the Substance Abuse and Mental
  Health Services Administration, U.S. Department
  of Health and Human Services. The program is a
  multilevel, multi-component school-based program
  designed to prevent or reduce bullying in
  elementary, middle, and junior high schools.
• http//www.stopbullyingnow.com/