piątek, 22 kwietnia 2011
cyberbullying and the role of the teacher
If the problem of cyberbullying is concerned the role of the teacher should no be ignored. It is common knowledge that most of internet violence victims are still in school. It means that it is very important that schools should ensure the safety of their students.
Providing knowledge in secure usage of new technologies should be treated as a priority in schools, mainly because students are not aware of threats involved in internet usage, such as cyberviolence. First of all teachers along with students should discuss types of cyberviolence and present them with both perspectives : victim, and offender.
Significant fact concerning this case is how the educational system reacts in case of revealed cases of cyberviolence in school. Information of such cases can originate from various sources. Person which will report about such incident can be the victim, victim's parents, other students witnesses or teachers.
Young people often have false impression of anonymity when case of new technologies are concerned. Specialists are convincing that there are various ways of identifying source of cyberbullying. Peoples which are hired to find source of particular data sent via the internet must be aware of the fact that even with the identified source it is still needed to identify person responsible of the occurrence.
Regardless of who reported the event, intervention procedure should consist of:
• psychological assistance towards victim
• collecting evidence and determining circumstances of the event
• drawing the consequences to the offender
• attempt to alter the behavioral patterns of offender
All cases concerning violence, so cases involving usage of electronic medias should be properly studies and documented, because the will serve as baseline for further studies on phenomena of cyberbullying as well as in plans which will be aimed to decrease this trend.
Many perpetrators use “stolen identity” technique by using cellphones of other students, internet portal profiles, mail accounts etc. to send informations, messages, with harmful content. Difficulties with identifying “cyberbully” can be encounter in situation when content is sent via cellphones, wi-fi connections or other secured forms of connection.
Problem of cyberbullying is really significant and will spread even more around the globe because of constant increase in usage of new digital medias. Further studies aimed at finding sources and ways of diminishing this trend are needed.
Providing knowledge in secure usage of new technologies should be treated as a priority in schools, mainly because students are not aware of threats involved in internet usage, such as cyberviolence. First of all teachers along with students should discuss types of cyberviolence and present them with both perspectives : victim, and offender.
Significant fact concerning this case is how the educational system reacts in case of revealed cases of cyberviolence in school. Information of such cases can originate from various sources. Person which will report about such incident can be the victim, victim's parents, other students witnesses or teachers.
Young people often have false impression of anonymity when case of new technologies are concerned. Specialists are convincing that there are various ways of identifying source of cyberbullying. Peoples which are hired to find source of particular data sent via the internet must be aware of the fact that even with the identified source it is still needed to identify person responsible of the occurrence.
Regardless of who reported the event, intervention procedure should consist of:
• psychological assistance towards victim
• collecting evidence and determining circumstances of the event
• drawing the consequences to the offender
• attempt to alter the behavioral patterns of offender
All cases concerning violence, so cases involving usage of electronic medias should be properly studies and documented, because the will serve as baseline for further studies on phenomena of cyberbullying as well as in plans which will be aimed to decrease this trend.
Many perpetrators use “stolen identity” technique by using cellphones of other students, internet portal profiles, mail accounts etc. to send informations, messages, with harmful content. Difficulties with identifying “cyberbully” can be encounter in situation when content is sent via cellphones, wi-fi connections or other secured forms of connection.
Problem of cyberbullying is really significant and will spread even more around the globe because of constant increase in usage of new digital medias. Further studies aimed at finding sources and ways of diminishing this trend are needed.
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying, otherwise known as cyberviolence it is violence channeled in direction of other peoples performed with usage of internet and other electronic medias like: e-mail, websites, chatrooms, discussion forums. Other forms of cyberbullying are using internet communicators or sms texting.
Results of study performed by GEMIUS in Poland show that:
• every second respondent (52 %) had contant with at least one form of verbal violence in realm
of Internet or via cellphone
• Most common complain concerned vulgar insults (47% of respondents)
• Every fifth respondent (21 %) was humiliated or ridiculed
◦ Results of studies showed that even blackmailing or intimidation occured, this happened to
16% of respondents
• 57% of respondents complained about pictures or videos placed in the Web without their
permission
It is needed to ask yourself a question: Why security in the Internet is so important? Because internet violence or opression can be very dengerous. Why? One of the reasons is that every insult (or private data) can be promptly send to hundred of thousands of people. Expansion of digital photography and video ( for example cameras in cellphones) makes it very easy to come into possesion of embarrassing photos or easily concoct normal ones.
Technological possibilities are fostering rise in agression level in the Web. Peoples can place their websites in some egzotic country which makes it nearly impossible to trace and shut down. Impunity is the key problem along with anonymity. Another factor is psychological easiness of humiliating other people which offender don't have to face in real life. It is obvious that psychology of the crowd takes place as well.
Are cyber crimes dangerous? It depends mainly on psychological resistance of the victim. One third of teenagers tested in study performed by Gemius declared that violation of their dignity in the web does not bother them. On the other hand 60% of respondents admit that those attacks make them nervous and angry, 40% - unpleasantness, 18% - fear, 13% - shame.
The most dangerous kind of internet violence is this kind of psycholgical and verbal agression which concerns social image of victim. Courage of aggressors often yields from conviction that they are "annonymous" but in reality "annonymous" does not mean "undetectable". When internauts will realize that everyone can be traced in the Web problem of Cyberbullying should decrease in volume.
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