Bailey Jovi's List: Unit 5 Cyberbullying

• motivated by anger, revenge or frustration. Sometimes they do it for entertainment or because they are bored and have too much time on their hands and too many tech toys available to them
• by accident
• enjoy being the tough guy or gal
• Mean girls do it to help bolster or remind people of their own social standing

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• Direct Attacks

   

  1. Instant Messaging/Text Messaging Harassment [Learn More...]
    2. Stealing Passwords [Learn More...]
    3. Blogs [Learn More...]
    4. Web Sites [Learn More...]
    5. Sending Pictures through E-mail and Cell Phones [Learn More...]
    6. Internet Polling [Learn More...]
    7. Interactive Gaming [Learn More...]
    8. Sending Malicious Code [Learn More...]
    9. Sending Porn and Other Junk E-Mail and IMs [Learn More...]
    10. Impersonation [Learn More...]
• hateful or threatening messages
• this should be a security tool, kids sometimes use the Warn button as a game or prank.
• A kid/teen may create a screenname that is very similar to another kid's name
• Text wars or text attacks are when kids gang up on the victim, sending thousands of text-messages to the victims cell phone or other mobile device. The victim is then faced with a huge cell phone bill and angry parents.
• death threats using IM
• may steal another child's password
• A kid may also use another kid's password to change his/her profile
• ocks the victim out of their own account
• hack into the victim's computer.

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• two kinds of cyberbullying, direct attacks
• cyberbullying by proxy (using others to help cyberbully the victim

• Cyberbullying" is when a child, preteen or teen is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, embarrassed or otherwise targeted by another child, preteen or teen using the Internet, interactive and digital technologies or mobile phones. It has to have a minor on both sides, or at least have been instigated by a minor against another minor. Once adults become involved, it is plain and simple cyber-harassment or cyberstalking. Adult cyber-harassment or cyberstalking is NEVER called cyberbullying.
• imited only by the child's imagination and access to technology.
• may become the victim
• killed each other and committed suicide
• not a one time communication
• parents may be more worried about the lewd language used by the kids than the hurtful effect of rude and embarrassing posts.
• level of a misdemeanor cyberharassment charge, or if the child is young enough may result in the charge of juvenile delinquency
• osing their ISP or IM accounts as a terms of service violation. And in some cases, if hacking or password and identity theft is involved, can be a serious criminal matter under state and federal law
• hen schools try and get involved by disciplining the student for cyberbullying actions that took place off-campus and outside of school hours, they are often sued for exceeding their authority and violating the student's free speech right
• working with the parents
• educate the students on cyberethics and the law
• school's acceptable use policy reserving the right to discipline the student for actions taken off-campus if they are intended to have an effect on a student or they adversely affect the safety and well-being of student while in school. This makes it a contractual, not a constitutional, issue.

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• What about our disabled folks? - Bailey Jovi on 2008-07-28