Bullying Annotated Bibliography
Bullying gives a huge impact to the victim whether it is traditional bullying or cyber bullying. This research will be focused on cyber bullying and how it gives an impact on students’ studies and their self-esteem.
According to Dr. Qais Faryadi, these are some characteristics of cyber bullies (Faryadi, 2011):
1. Often involved in other antisocial activities such as drug use.
2. Impulsive and easily angered
3. Strong need to dominate other students.
4. Show little empathy toward students who are victimized
5. Often physically stronger than other students in the class.
6. Often defiant and aggressive, including to parents and teachers.
Scholars stated that cyber bullying is similar to traditional forms of bullying where it is often deliberate and relentless, but it can be even more unnerving because of the anonymous nature of the assault (Hoff & Mitchell, 2008). Hoff and …show more content…
In fact, it is like a norm in our culture and there’s no solution to stop the bullying. Some of the case were reported and filed but some of the cases were just being ignored. Mostly because it is already part of the culture and children tend to experience bully at least once in their life. According to Karin S. Frey, it is hard to get information about bullying case from the victim because they are not telling the truth and keeping it as a secret. Socially skilled students are much more adept at keeping their bullying secret (Frey, 2005). As this is a cultural norm already, a researcher did an observation and asked a 10 year old girl about cyber bullying and she exclaimed, “Cyber bullying oh my god! It 's another way to bully just over the computer. Some people do cyber bullying as a joke and don 't know what it feels to be bullied.” (Mishna, Saini & Solomon, 2009). The new generation already exposed with technologies, computers, internet and new things hence, they know what is happening on the internet and what is cyber bullying all
According to Dr. Qais Faryadi, these are some characteristics of cyber bullies (Faryadi, 2011):
1. Often involved in other antisocial activities such as drug use.
2. Impulsive and easily angered
3. Strong need to dominate other students.
4. Show little empathy toward students who are victimized
5. Often physically stronger than other students in the class.
6. Often defiant and aggressive, including to parents and teachers.
Scholars stated that cyber bullying is similar to traditional forms of bullying where it is often deliberate and relentless, but it can be even more unnerving because of the anonymous nature of the assault (Hoff & Mitchell, 2008). Hoff and …show more content…
In fact, it is like a norm in our culture and there’s no solution to stop the bullying. Some of the case were reported and filed but some of the cases were just being ignored. Mostly because it is already part of the culture and children tend to experience bully at least once in their life. According to Karin S. Frey, it is hard to get information about bullying case from the victim because they are not telling the truth and keeping it as a secret. Socially skilled students are much more adept at keeping their bullying secret (Frey, 2005). As this is a cultural norm already, a researcher did an observation and asked a 10 year old girl about cyber bullying and she exclaimed, “Cyber bullying oh my god! It 's another way to bully just over the computer. Some people do cyber bullying as a joke and don 't know what it feels to be bullied.” (Mishna, Saini & Solomon, 2009). The new generation already exposed with technologies, computers, internet and new things hence, they know what is happening on the internet and what is cyber bullying all