Cyberbullying among School Children

   

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TABLE OF CONTENTSTopic:- Cyberbullying among School children...............................................................................1REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4Books and Journals.................................................................................................................4
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Topic:- Cyberbullying among School childrenCyberbullying is analysed as practice which has caused hue and cry in the whole legalsystem of Australia but till date there are no special legislation to deal with this problem(Williford and et.al, 2013). It mainly implies to the use of electronic communication to bully aperson, typically by sending messages of an intimidating or threatening nature. In this context,analysis of this problem is taken in to consideration by analysing 4p's which are mentionedbelow:Present situation: Cyberbullying has also become an international public health concernamong the School children's and as such it requires further study. In Australia, it wasfound that Prevalence of this problem is increasing continuously because children's makegreater use of social networking platform (Holfeld, 2014). As per the report of UNSW,challenges in obtaining exact cyberbullying figures but it is analysed that Victimizationcyberbullying rates among school children in Australia ranges from the 6 percent to 40percent. ACMA's 2013 survey supported that while only 1 percent of 8 to 9 years oldengaged in cyberbullying of others and this figure rose to 12 percent among 14 to 15years old children in Australia (Vazsonyi and et.al., 2012). Continuous rise in CyberBullying among children's in School have raised the issues for parents and schools. It wasalso found that principles and teachers are so swamped with Cyberbullying complaintsthey are losing hours of valuable teaching time each week. IRIS also found that 72percent of Australian schools has at least one incident of cyberbullying report to them in2013. With the schools receiving an average of 8.7 percent each that year. Moreover, thenumber reports made to schools was highest for the behaviours of students receivingthreatening, abusive or Bullying emails, social networking messages, telephone call andinstant messages. Problem: School Bullying is the serious problem in Australia which is observed acrossgender, race, ethnicity, and socio economic status etc. It is also considered as systematicabuse of power that is the intension of bullying is to put the children in to distress in someway, bullies seeks power (Perren and et.al., 2012). Aggression is major problems thatarises in children who are being a subject of Cyberbullying in class rooms from Classmates, teacher and principles etc. it affects the mindset and perception of children which1
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