Cyberbullying, Youth Behavior and Society

A Study on Cyberbullying: Its Forms, Awareness and Moral Reasoning Among Youth

“…A study conducted by reference [30] found that age and gender are among the important factors for cyberbullies in choosing the victim. However, what is worrying is that youth who are involved in cyberbullying activities does not even morally aware that they are the bully [31]. Therefore, one way to increase the moral reasoning level among youth and encourage them to reduce cyberbullying activities is to educate them on many types of cyberbullying characteristics.…”

Cyberbullying on Students’ Blog: Exploring Bully in Digital Era

“…Many studies about cyberbullying have conducted around the globe from the various disciplines such as Sociology, Psychology, IT, Criminology, and Education. Aune, 2009;Rivers & Noret, 2007;Lakitta et al, 2016;Slonje, 2011;Hinduja & Patchin, 2010; also Salus, 2012. These are some researchers that have been referred a lot to the discussion regarding cyberbullying as its topic.…”

“…Moreover, Slonje (2011) and Salus (2012) in their writing also talk about motives that make someone committing cyberbullying, namely: a) Mad, revenge, heartache, or frustration. b) Showing their ego then hurts others (hunger for power).…”

“…They could use threatening words and intimidate phrase to their victim easily because they are behind the computer screen or cell phone without having to witness the effect they have on the victim. (Slonje, 2011). There are many forms and methods of cyberbullying in the virtual world, it could be in the form of threatening, creating a site to spread rumors, uploading photos, mentioning something embarrassing or pictures that put the victim to shame, and writing post to have a laugh about the victim even to access their social network to threat the victim and create a problem.…”

“…There are many forms and methods of cyberbullying in the virtual world, it could be in the form of threatening, creating a site to spread rumors, uploading photos, mentioning something embarrassing or pictures that put the victim to shame, and writing post to have a laugh about the victim even to access their social network to threat the victim and create a problem. In general, the dissertation written by Slonje (2011), it mentioned six main types of cyberbullying, namely: 1) Flaming: "A provocative act, mocking, or even insulting that hurt others that create a massive debate." 2) Online Harassment: "Sending numerous messages or terrorizing the other person with hurtful messages that could harm others through the online media."…”