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Cyberbullying: the challenge to define
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A clear distinction between direct and indirect cyberbullying is made and a model definition of cyberbullies is offered and lends insight into how the essential bullying elements have evolved and should apply in the authors' parallel cyber universe.Abstract:
Cyberbullying is a reality of the digital age. To address this phenomenon, it becomes imperative to understand exactly what cyberbullying is. Thus, establishing a workable and theoretically sound definition is essential. This article contributes to the existing literature in relation to the definition of cyberbullying. The specific elements of repetition, power imbalance, intention, and aggression, regarded as essential criteria of traditional face-to-face bullying, are considered in the cyber context. It is posited that the core bullying elements retain their importance and applicability in relation to cyberbullying. The element of repetition is in need of redefining, given the public nature of material in the online environment. In this article, a clear distinction between direct and indirect cyberbullying is made and a model definition of cyberbullying is offered. Overall, the analysis provided lends insight into how the essential bullying elements have evolved and should apply in our parallel...read more
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A developmental approach to cyberbullying: prevalence and protective factors
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the relation between age and cyberbullying victimization and perpetration is presented, focusing on age variations in technology use, prevalence of cyber bullying involvement, risk and protective factors, and outcomes.
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Redefining virality in less broad strokes: Predicting viral behavioral intentions from motivations and uses of Facebook and Twitter
TL;DR: It is argued for a comprehensive definition that extends virality to social networking and microblogging sites, by emphasizing users’ behaviors beyond shear access and viewership, across two studies that investigate viral behavioral intentions toward pro-social messages shared on Facebook and Twitter.
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Cyberbullying in higher education
TL;DR: Education programs, reporting systems, and Internet etiquette should be studied to investigate if educational programs lead to decreased cyberbullying, increased rates of reporting, and how cyberbullies may change social media etiquette.
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Cyberbullying or Cyber Aggression?: A Review of Existing Definitions of Cyber-Based Peer-to-Peer Aggression
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that it is now time to turn our attention to the broader issue of cyber aggression, rather than persist with the narrow focus that is cyberbullying.
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Between Likes and Shares: Effects of Emotional Appeal and Virality on the Persuasiveness of Anticyberbullying Messages on Facebook
Saleem Alhabash,Anna R. McAlister,Amy Hagerstrom,Elizabeth Taylor Quilliam,Nora J. Rifon,Jef I. Richards +5 more
TL;DR: Low message virality led to the most favorable message evaluations, while high virality resulted in stronger anticyberbullying attitudes and viral behavioral intentions.
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Cyberbullying: Its Nature and Impact in Secondary School Pupils
TL;DR: Two studies found cyberbullying less frequent than traditional bullying, but appreciable, and reported more outside of school than inside, and being a cybervictim, but not a cyberbully, correlated with internet use.
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Cyberbullying: Another main type of bullying?
Robert Slonje,Peter K. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: There was a significant incidence of cyberbullying in lower secondary schools, less in sixth-form colleges, and gender differences were few.
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Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard A Preliminary Look at Cyberbullying
Justin W. Patchin,Sameer Hinduja +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the nature of bullying and its transmutation to the electronic world and the negative repercussions that can befall both its victims and instigators, and report results from a pilot study designed to empirically assess the nature and extent of online bullying.
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Research on school bullying and victimization: what have we learned and where do we go from here?
TL;DR: In this article, a special issue on bullying and victimization in school psychology review highlights current research efforts in American schools on bullying, peer victimization, and how this research can in
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New bottle but old wine: A research of cyberbullying in schools
TL;DR: A survey study of 177 grade seven students in an urban city is conducted and the results show that almost 54% of the students were victims of traditional bullying and over a quarter of them had been cyber-bullied.