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Analytical Research Essay on Online Bullying

   

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Running Head: ANALYTICAL RESEARCH ESSAY ON ONLINE BULLYING
ANALYTICAL RESEARCH ESSAY ON ONLINE BULLYING
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ANALYTICAL RESEARCH ESSAY ON ONLINE BULLYING
Bullying is the act of humiliating people, with physical or verbal aggression. In other
words bullying is the satisfaction that people possessing the nature of a sadist received from
making others feel depressed deliberately. Bullying also existed when the world was not rich in
communication technologies. At that time, bullying were the acts of teasing or taunting which
were limited to school, college, offices. Hence, it can be said that before the invention of
advanced medium of communication the act of bullying was limited to closed groups or
societies. With the advancement as well as sophistication of internet technologies in the late
1970s, social media started emerging as one of the main platforms for cross-national
communication. By the year 1980, social media has become a popular medium of
communication in most of the developed countries such as USA. Along with this the sadist
people got a new platform to receive satisfaction by bullying others. They started tormenting,
humiliating people, in the name of socio-economic status, cultural or religious background,
habits, race.
Before the advent of social media people are bullied in front of their friends colleague or
family members or other social groups. Hence the bullies or insults they used to receive, could
reach the years of a limited people or a closed social group. The intervention of internet made a
drastic change in the field of communication, by generating news from one corner of the world
to all over the globe. This amplified the impacts of getting bullied too1. In this digital era, when a
person is bullied to his or her friends, relatives or colleagues, the incidents of bullying do not
reach only a limited group of people. If the bully is done over Facebook comments or posts, or
twitter posts, or Instagram pictures, then all of the people with whom the bullied person is
connected over all social networking sites; come to know about the incident and the weak points
1 Hayes, Rosemary, and Carrie MH Herbert. Rising above bullying: From despair to recovery. Jessica Kingsley
Publishers, 2011.

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ANALYTICAL RESEARCH ESSAY ON ONLINE BULLYING
of the victim, the way he or she is humiliated, gets revealed in front of the world around the
victim2.
Hence, the thesis statement for this research essay put forward the argument that, online
bullying is more dreadful and multiplies to the negative impacts of bullying, by spreading the
incident of bullying the bad languages, slangs or insulting words used to hurt the victim to the
world.
Larger state of knowledge about the topic:
There are several kinds of online bullying. People are bullied in the name of looks,
sexuality, socio-economic status, cultural or religious background, habits race and so on.
Psychologists consider cyber bullying can cast upon maximum amount of negative impacts on
the school students, who are children or teens and destroys the learning abilities of the children
slowly, who are victims of cyber bullying3.According to the psychologists online bullying can
cast upon a greater impact on the psychological condition of the person who is bullied over
social networking sites. This is because, the intervention of internet made a drastic change in the
field of communication, by generating news from one corner of the world to all over the globe.
This amplified the impacts of getting bullied too. It is a boon that social media can convey news,
information or posts, from one corner of the world to another, very easily. Eventually, the
incidents of bullying do not get restricted within the group; the victim is familiar with, especially
when the person is bullied through Facebook comments, or Twitter posts, or Instagram pictures
2 StopBullying.gov, "What Is Cyberbullying", StopBullying.gov, 2019, online, Internet, 18 Jun. 2019. , Available:
https://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/what-is-it/index.html.
3Hayes, Rosemary, and Carrie MH Herbert. Rising above bullying: From despair to recovery. Jessica Kingsley
Publishers, 2011.

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