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An investigation into cyber bullying & methods to prevent victimization and the rates of cyber bullying. Raffles Institution Research Education Group 2 . Clavius Han Kee Ian(Leader) James Dang Yang Chen Dong Yuan Jia Fang JunTao Mohamed Firdaus Bin Mohamed Rosdie .
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An investigation into cyber bullying &methods to prevent victimization and the rates of cyber bullying Raffles Institution Research Education Group 2 • Clavius Han Kee Ian(Leader) • James Dang Yang Chen • Dong Yuan Jia • Fang JunTao • Mohamed Firdaus Bin Mohamed Rosdie
Contents of Presentation Introduction & Background Methodology Findings Analysis of Findings Conclusion
What is cyber bullying? • Bullying using electronic formats / through • social networking platforms • Harmful messages being sent.
What are the effects of cyber bullying? • Low self-esteem • Increased suicidal ideation • Emotional Responses
Why is there cyber bullying? • Conflicts between humans • Motivation by anger • Revenge or frustration • Entertainment • Tormenting others
The Process Of Cyber Bullying • And results in…. • Victim faces various emotional problems and tend to break themselves away from the people. • Post Cyber Bullying… • Cyber bullies feels angry because of conflicts/is • too bored and wants to entertain himself/victims • of previous bulling cases • wants to take revenge. • Chooses a targeted victim. • Cyber bullying stage… • Cyber bullies post harmful/threatening/hurtful • messages/videos/pictures on social networking • platforms • The public would read/see the comments/messages/ • videos/picture and they would spread them around. • More people would join the cyber bullies and post • comments on the victims or stay away from the victim • in real life.
Problem & Issue • Objectives • Raise awareness among general public • Provide solutions to prevent victimization for general public • Provide solutions to curb cyber bullying rates • Reasons for Our Choice of Research Topic • Youth issue • One of the major cyber space problems globally • Majority of people would benefit from our research • Hypothesis • Our hypothesis is that girls are more likely to get • cyber bullied compared to boys and that schools • enforcing/implying strict disciplinary measures • would curb the rates of cyber bullying.
Ways We Have Gathered Our Data • Surveys • Interview • Online Websites (Google Scholar,Wikipedia,Yahoo!,etc.)
Course of actions during the duration of research: • Gathering information from online sources/internet • Statistic and data from previous research reports. • Basic information about cyber bulling i.e. its origins, its causes and effects, etc. • Gathering information through surveys (conducted on 20 respondents) • Zoom in on specific details that our literature were unable to provide. • Get statistics and data from Singaporeans • Get ratings for our 3 proposed solutions • Gathering information through interview (Interviewee: Mr Leo) • Fill in the gaps from our surveys and literature information • Get views from experts in a Singapore context
Profile of 20 respondents by • Age, Gender and Educational Institutes
Three Proposed Solutions To Prevent Cyber Bullying • Designing educative programs to improve student’s social skills. • Schools enforce and adapt strict rules, such as caning, on bullies after 2 cases of bullying. • School administrators keep perpend bullies as counseling patients but with the aim of studying the primary causes of bullying.
In conclude… • Cyber-bullying poses much more threat and fear to the victim • compared to physical bullying. • Cyber bullies would feel angry, hatred, dislike and then they • would utilize the cyber space as their tool to target specific victims. • Targeted Victims are bullied mainly on social networking sites • such as Facebook, MySpace or Twitter. • Victims of cyber bullying feel very depressed and their self-esteem • would be low and they would also feel inferior/ trampled by the • cyber bullies.
Acknowledgements • Dr. Raphael , our teacher-mentor, for his guidance during the course of our research. • Mr Leo HeeKhianfor sharing his experience on cyber bullying with us and also taking time to answer our questions during the interview. • Mr Edmund Chow for giving us tips and guidelines on some of the lectures which were conducted by him. • Our Twenty Survey Respondents for eking out time to complete our survey.
Any doubts or queries? Please raise them up now and we’ll answer them to the best of our abilities Question & Answer Session