Presentation Agenda

• Origin & Current Situation in Taiwan
• Cyberbullying Talent Show
• What is Cyberybullying?
• Characteristics of Cyberbullying
• Cyberbullying Prevention
  
• Research Q & Instrument
  
• Q&A
  

Origin and current situation in Taiwan

• IT integration in K-12 curriculum. Exponential growth of technology has changed social interactions, learning strategies & choice of entertainment for adolescents
  
• Access to the online emerging technologies provides new communication tool for youth, whose use of email, IM, webcams, chat rooms, social networking sites, and text messages is exposing worldwide.
• Although Internet provides opportunities for social support, identity exploration & educational development, it is concurrently a site for abuse & victimization.
  
• The Internet & other forms of communication technology place children & youth at risk of being bullied online.
  
• A recent study by Chou (2009) among junior high school students:
  1. 30 % of the students have been bullied
  2. 40 % of the victims would talk to their classmates or friends
  3. 20 % to brothers and sisters
  4. 15 % to parents
  5. 25 % chose to be silent

Cyberbullying -Talent Show

Texas State Laws

Tex. Educ. Code 25.0341 (2006) defines bullying as "engaging in written or verbal expression or physical conduct that as school district board of trustees or the board's designee determines:

(1)will have the effect of physically harming a student, damaging a student's property, or placing a student in reasonable fear of harm to the student's person or of damage to the student's property; or

(2) is sufficiently sever, persistent, or pervasive enough that the action or threat creates an intimidating, threatening, or abusive educational environment for a student.

What is cyberbullying

• The use of information & communication technologies to support deliberate, repeated, and hostile behavior by an individual or group, that is intended to harm others.
• It includes the use of email, cell phone, text message, and Internet sites to threaten, harass, embarrass or socially exclude
• Further encompasses the use of an electronic medium to sexually harass, including distributing unsolicited text or photos of a sexual nature or requesting sexual acts either online or offline.

Chracteristics of cyberbullying

Cyberbullying is a relatively new research topic, following the rapid increase in use of the internet and mobile devices. Several characteristics distinguish cyberbullying from other forms of bullying, such as:

• Students who are victimized have no place to hide, and can be targeted anytime and anyplace.
• Cyberbullying can involve a very wide audience (e.g., through the circulation of video clips on the internet), although the bully may not be aware of the audience’s reactions.
• Students who cyberbully others are relatively protected by the anonymity of electronic forms of contact, which can safeguard them from punishment or retaliation.
• As with some indirect traditional bullying, students who cyberbully do not usually see the response of the victim, changing the satisfactions or inhibitions normally generated by bullying.

Cyberbullying Prevention