I found a scholarly all about cyberbullying. I found the article from the Texas A&M Library website. I determined that it was a scholarly article becasue this article comes from The Canadian Journal of School Pyschology.
This article is about cyberbullying and its prevalence among different ages and genders of kids. This data was collected by picking kids in different middle school and giving them a questonnaire. From this reseach it was determeined that being called names, having rumors apread and having another person pretend ot be them online were the top ways of cyberbullying that occurred. This was surprising to me since people seemed to be more concerned with sexual harrassment and those types of things happeneing online. It also shows that girls were more likely to have been victims or bullies than boys. This research also determined that kids in 7th grade are more likely to be a victim or a bully.
This article is very informative and well written. The author clearly knows alot about the information and the rehortic appeals mostly to logos because of the article's educational tone.
http://cjs.sagepub.com.lib-ezproxy.tamu.edu:2048/content/26/1/44.full.pdf+html
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Can Laws Be Made?
I wanted to looked further into laws that are being made about cyberbullying in Texas. I was wondering if laws even can be made against cyberbullying because the Internet is the main source of cyberbullying and it is such a big place,it would be hard ot enforce laws. I found a few laws made about cyberbullying in Texas.
The first law is requiring that the Texas School Safety Center make programs that address and can respond better to incidents of cyberbullying. Another law that will be enacted in 2012-2013 is requiring schools to better address cyberbullying. This includes parent notification, conselling and protecting of the children that admit to have been bullied. Another law will allow the bully to be transferred to anopther classroom, away from the victim. Another law requires that school have a intervention and prevention program, which will keep watch on potenital suicide victims and keep watch on any victims.
These laws seem like they will make an impact. I think that starting at school is the best way to go about cyberbullying. I am not sure there is any other way to go about it since in Internet is so big and it would be hard to enforce any laws. I also this that raising awareness in schools would help the problem too.
http://www.bullypolice.org/tx_law.html
The first law is requiring that the Texas School Safety Center make programs that address and can respond better to incidents of cyberbullying. Another law that will be enacted in 2012-2013 is requiring schools to better address cyberbullying. This includes parent notification, conselling and protecting of the children that admit to have been bullied. Another law will allow the bully to be transferred to anopther classroom, away from the victim. Another law requires that school have a intervention and prevention program, which will keep watch on potenital suicide victims and keep watch on any victims.
These laws seem like they will make an impact. I think that starting at school is the best way to go about cyberbullying. I am not sure there is any other way to go about it since in Internet is so big and it would be hard to enforce any laws. I also this that raising awareness in schools would help the problem too.
http://www.bullypolice.org/tx_law.html
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