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Bullying’s new trends: Cyber-Bullying

Explore the new trends in cyberbullying, its impact on victims, and initiatives taken by schools to address this issue. Understand the different forms of cyberbullying and the emotional states arising from cyber attacks. Discover how cyberbullying affects gender and the role of parents and schools in combating it.

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Bullying’s new trends: Cyber-Bullying

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  1. Bullying’snew trends: Cyber-Bullying PDG Franco Marchesani MD 108 - Italy

  2. Bullying Form of aggressive behavior in which someone intentionally and repeatedly causes another person injury or discomfort. Bullying can take the form of physical contact, words or more subtle actions.( WHO)

  3. Ways of Bullying • Direct bullying: includesexplicitattacks on the victim and may be physical or verbal • Indirectbullying : damages the victim in hisrelationships with otherpeople

  4. Cyberbullying (or «online bullying») Unremitting, repetitive, offensive and systematic attack perpetrated by using the network tools.

  5. Cyberbullies in Europe Mobile phonecyberbullies UK Italy Spain BosniaErz. Notinvolved Bullies (Ib.)

  6. Cyberbullies in Europe Internet CYBERBULLIES Spain Bosnia-E Italy UK

  7. CensisSurvey in cooperation with PoliziaPostale (Police Post) 91% : Young people aged 14 - 18 years who joined at least one social network 87% : Young people aged 14-18 years using a smartphone connected to the internet (Censis Rep. 2016)

  8. (Ybarra % Mitchell, 2004)

  9. CYBERBULLYING AND GENDER • Girls outnumber boys as mobile phone bullying victims. • However, as far as the internet is concerned, gender is irrelevant.

  10. Types of Cyberbullying Cyber stalking: Repeatedlysendingmessagesthat include threats of harm or are highlyintimidating Denigration: «Dissing» someone online. Sending or postingcruel gossip or rumorsabout a person Flaming: Online fightsusingmessages with angry and vulgar language Harassment: Repeteadlysending offensive, rude and insultingmessages Impersonation: Pretending to be someone else and sending or postingmaterialthatmakes a person look bad, getsthem in trouble, or damagesthatperson’sreputation or friendships Exclusion: Excludingthe victim from an online group to marginalizeit Doxing: Public dissemination of personal or sensitive data via the internet Sexting: Sendingsexuallyexplicit images or texts by sms or messengers

  11. Most common types of Cyberbullism (Detectedrates)

  12. Types of cyber attacks ( Eurispes, Telefono Azzurro, 2011)

  13. 1/5 Teengers (Italy) Harassment Seldom 14% Sometimes 4.3% Often 4.3% Exclusion4.7% ( Ibidem)

  14. 1/5 Teengers(Italy) Denigration on the internet Seldom 12,9% Sometimes 5,6% Often 1,5% ( Eurispes, Telefono Azzurro, 2011)

  15. Cyberbullying and sexting  • in the last few years • Connected to the net: • 1 / 10 : to chat • 6 / 10 : to exchange photos and racy videos

  16. Sexting: not new but increasing in instances (52%school headmasters who had to cope personally with cyberbullying) 10% : instances of sexting 3% : instances of online grooming.

  17. Cyberbullying is all the rage • Areas in which cyberbullying takes place • (Middle and High School Headmasters) • The internet (77%) • Gathering places for young people (47%) • On the way between home and school (35%) • Within the school itself (24%). ( Eurispes, Telefono Azzurro, 2011)

  18. Maincyberbullyingchannelsused • Cell phone : SMS and calls • Internet : e-mail, instantmessaging, chat (Italy. CENSIS 2016)

  19. Identikit of the cyber-bully. • School Headmasters • 90% : cyberbullying is more serious than bullying • 78% : cyberbullies tend to target psychologically weaker subjects • 70% : cyberbullies can be both male and female ******** • 19% : mainly female • 11% : mainly male

  20. Bullies and Victims’ percentage Italy Cyberbullying (Mobil Phone) Cyberbullying (Internet) Direct Bullying IndirectBullying Victims Bullies

  21. Identikit of the PASSIVE/SUBMISSIVE VICTIM

  22. CONFIDANTS OF THE VICTIMS • None 43.7 % • A friend 26.8% • A parent 15.5 % • A reference adult 8.5 % ((Slonjee Smith,2008)

  23. EMOTIONAL STATES ARISING FROM CYBER ATTACKS

  24. Consequencesfor the victims

  25. PsychophysicalEffectsof Cyberbullying (Italy - Interview on 7,000 stud. sample from 11 high schools) (National Observatory Adolescence- 2016)

  26. Little aware parents • Headmasters’ opinion • 89% : cyberbullying regarded as more difficult to detect than traditional bullying • 81% : parents minimize the problem (digital bullying is regarded as a jest) • 59% : schools with only few responsive parents • 49% : difficulty in raising parents’ awareness of the seriousness of the occurrence • 20% : fully understand what happened • 19% : bullying instances considered rare and half the number of parents • responsive for irrelevant

  27. The position of the families • 56% : parents not worried about their children being likely victims of electronic bullying, minimizing its possible impact on their life • 12% : parents opting to control the contents watched by their • children • 10% : parents regarding their children as fully independent • (well versed in the new technologies) • 20% : parents who know little or nothing of their children ( Eurispes, Telefono Azzurro, 2011 – mod.)

  28. Schools’ initiatives against cyberbullying • 63% : schools which intend to implement actions during the present year • 48% : schools which acted proactively, activated an information program aimed at • parents • 43% schools has a counselling service • 39% : schools which implemented specific actions • 10% : schools which have an actual monitoring program with questionnaires for • both students and parent • However, in 36% of the schools, participation in the program is limited to about half the number of parents, and in 59% of the schools just few parents are taking part in it

  29. Decision n. 779/2007/CE of the European Parliament and Council Fighting violence against children, teenagers and women: Daphne III Program (2007-2013) Daphne European Program. Daphne III Program “aims to protect children, young people and women from any form of violence, and to adopt measures to ensure that health, welfare and social cohesions are safeguarded”

  30. For ParentsFor Teachers Ways to Protect Your Kids from Cybercriminals (LynetteOwens - November1, 2016, mod.)

  31. COFACE (Confederation of Family ) Organisationsin the European Union) Associazione italiana genitori (Age) DeleteCyberbullying, COFAC mISION Developing new projects, conferences, seminars, trainings and study days, and putting in motion programmes of action at European level, in partnership with other organisations. Posted on 14 febbraio 2016 by tecnostarunical

  32. #OFF4aDAY First support service dedicated to cyberbullying Samsung e Moige (Movimentoitalianogenitori), with Polizia di Stato support, managed by a team of specialized psychologists Free number: 393 300 90 90 e-mail address: help@off4aday.it

  33. ITALY Law N°71/2017 - 18.6.2017 “Provisions to prevent cyberbullying and to protect children from its effects”

  34. Recommendation Given the importance of this problem, we ask the Lions European Council to take the following path: Recommend to the MD, D, Undistricted Clubs and Leo Clubs to: a) Stimulate the Clubs to debate about the problem of cyberbullying among youth during their meetings b) Introduce in their own programmes dedicated services c) Offer to cooperate with schools in their area to put into practice the respective fields of activity. d) Implement Lions Quest programmes

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