Analyzing Cyber Bullying Among IBD Students: NEU Project, March 2020

This project, conducted by a group of students from the National Economics University's Faculty of International Education IBD program, investigates the issue of cyber bullying among IBD students. The study, completed in March 2020, includes an introduction providing background information on the rise of social media and its impact on communication, alongside the rationale for the research, scope, research questions, and methodology. The major findings section presents the real situation of cyber bullying among IBD students, including statistics on the prevalence of cyberbullying, methods used by bullies, and the causes of cyber bullying. The project examines the negative effects of cyber bullying on students' mentality, social communication, and academic performance. The project concludes with recommendations for minimizing cyber bullying and includes an appendix and references.

National Economics University
Faculty of International Education
IBD program
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Project
Cyber Bullying in IBD
students
Name: Group 1
Nguyễn Phú An Nguyễn Linh Chi
Nguyễn Thị Vân Anh Nguyễn Thái Tuấn
Class: I15A6
Instructor: Ms. Lê Thu Hà, M.A
March, 2020
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Table of Contents
Table of figures..................................................................................................................2
Part I: Introduction.............................................................................................................4
Background information:...........................................................................................................4
Rationale:....................................................................................................................................6
Scope of the study:......................................................................................................................7
Research questions:.....................................................................................................................7
Methodology:..............................................................................................................................7
Overview of the outline:..............................................................................................................8
Part II: Major findings........................................................................................................9
1. Real situation about cyber bullying among IBD students..................................................9
2. The main causes of cyber bullying at IBD:.......................................................................12
3. The negatives of effects of cyberbullying:........................................................................15
3.1 Having a bad mentality...........................................................................................................................15
3.2 Difficulty in social communication........................................................................................................16
3.3 Bad effects on their study.......................................................................................................................16
4. Solutions how to minimaize this problem.........................................................................18
Part III: Conclusion and recommendation.........................................................................20
Part V: Appendix and Reference.......................................................................................21
Appendix....................................................................................................................................21
References..................................................................................................................................23
Table of figures
Figure 1 Percentages of Ibd students have been bullied on the Internet..................................10
Figure 2 IBD students’ responses to the notice of ways the bullies bully them......................10
Figure 3 Percentages of IBD students’ point of view about the cause of................................12
Figure 4 IBD students’ responses to know about the bullies is...............................................13
Figure 5 Different repercussions of cyberbullying..................................................................14
Figure 6 Percentages of IBD students’ choices of various solutions.......................................16
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Acknowledgement
First of all, we want to express my appreciation to my teacher, Ms. Le
Thi Thu Ha, who has given us a great deal of helpful advices and instructions
and examples for our lessions, without her valuable support, this essay cannot
be able to accomplish.
Last but not least, we want to express appropriate thanks to my IBD
friends of NEU (Intake 15) who have supported us to do survey questions. They
spent their time for filling in our questionnaires and advices us to collect the
data for our lecture.
Lastly, we want to forward the best wishes for your support and we will
grateful for it.
Group 1
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Part I: Introduction
Background information:
In era of industry 4.0, with the rapid growth of social networks. Every day, more than billion
people connect with each other using social media which completely changed the way people
communicate. Before people could not imagine the ability to speak to a person in another
country sitting at home, can now see a person and communicate with them as if they were
speaking directly. Today, chidren are being raised in society owned by Internet where social
media is the main tool that helps people interact with each other. There are currently 62
million social network users in Vietnam, including over 6 million Facebook and Instagram
users under the age of 18 (Vietnam youths struggle with cyberbullying - Vietnam Insider,
2019). While a great of today’s young people use online network as a good space to divide
their knowledge, image.. However, the invisible anonymity on the Internet makes people feel
emotionless and malicious. In addition, with the expansion and connection throughout the
world, it gives people the freedom to express themselves without the limits of prejudice.
On the other hand, because there is no limit on the internet, we are facing a new
way of bullying that is cyber bullying. A great of people who are mostly teenagers are being
bullied. Despite with a series of depressive scandals just because of online comment (such as
“you are so ugly” or “why you still alive”), people are still criticizing and arresting others.
This will lead to unpredictable results especially teenagers. Some youngers will become
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school-obessed, afraid to communicate, others feel being isolated and inferiority in
themselves even become depression.
Not until those recent scandals did people start to worry about this issue. Whether
cyberbullying affects people and is it only celebrities who get? Hopefully, through this topic,
people can find out the consequences of cyber bullying as well as suggest some possible
solutions to deal with them
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Rationale:
The group proceed this study because we remarked that the youth had a great deal of
problems with their network usage and don’t know how to balance it appropriately. To the
youth who have just logged on the social network more actively, they constantly need to face
up with many tough issues such as fake news, bodyshamming or stress. Hence, cyberbullying
takes place among many IBD students in particular and in general among young people. As
the quantity and popularity of social networking continues to soar, so do the opportunities for
the misuse of technology. Because of this, cyberbullying is a phenomenon that is drastically
increasing in prevalence. This issue has led to many negative impacts. Especially, this
actuality causes pressure in student and also creates poor academic performance in students
even the long-term psychological effects lead to depression and suicide.
We have specified to research about “cyberbullying” with an aspiration to change the minds
of students in IBD, assist them understand more about this serious problem. This research
will not only give many students in IBD some remedy to grasp their emotions, but also help
us make out a great of knowledges.
In this study, we will investigate the cyberbullying trend of IBD students. By and large, it
attempts to:
 The real situation about cyberbullying among IBD students
 Reasons
 Effects
 Some solutions to diminish this problem
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Scope of the study:
In this investigation, if the scope of the survey was be discussed a large number of IBD
students, obviously it is impossible to oversight with all answers. Hence, it focuses on
researching a small part of them. So this study is limited and only mention IBD students of
intake 15 at NEU.
Research questions:
With the objectives proposed in the first section, this essay raises 4 research questions:
*What is the real situation about cyber bullying among IBD students?
*What are the causes for cyber bullies?
*How does cyberbullying affect students?
*What are solutions to the problem?
Methodology:
To collect data, there are two main sources that I used:
For the primary data, 85 questionnaires including 6 survey questions were distributed to
85 IBD students. After that, the data were aggregated, analyzed and counted with deatail
charts.
For secondary data: The detail in this subject was searched on books, articles, and
websites,etc.
In summary, the entire study included 85 questions including 6 survey questions on the
the cyberbullying situation of IBD students and some information of cyber bullying situation
from Internet
Overview of the outline:
* What is the real situation about cyberbullying among IBD students?
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- Evaluation of IBD students’s bullied
- The way of cyberbullying
*What are the causes for cyber bullies?
- Relating to emotion
- Anonymity
- Trend
-Low self-esteem issues
* How does cyber bullying affect students?
-Having bad mentality
- Difficulty in social communication
- Bad effects on their study
* What are solutions of the problem?
- myself’ responsibility
- governments’ responsibility
- individuals’ responsibility
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Part II: Major findings
1. Real situation about cyber bullying among IBD students
Bullying in schools is nothing new today. This situation is increasingly complex and is
becoming a top concern in education not only in number of cases but also in severity.
According to data from Plan International and ICRW (2015) survey in 5 countries including
Vietnam shows that 7 out of every 10 students suffer from school violence.
However, the day when classrooms are connected to the outside world means that school
hours do not end when students leave the classroom and unfortunately bullying does not stop
there. They continue bullying in digital devices like cell phones, computers, and tablets which
call cyberbullying. This issue seems to become a common circumstance for today’s youth,
IBD students of NEU are of no exception.
Figure 1 Percentages of IBD students have been bullied on the Internet.
52%
48%
Have you ever been bullied on the internet?
Yes
No
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As illustrated in “Chart 1.1”, cyberbullying is common issue among IBD students. The
number of IBD students who are being bullied in the internet accounted for more than half of
the survey participants (52%). On the other hand, up to 48% of students are also never being
victim of cyberbullying. These students might be vague about cyberbullying and may not
even know they are being bullied. Some students said that “they just think those comment is
just joking.” In comparison with only 41 people out of 85 respondents said they were not
victims of cyberbullying, but 80 respondents answered the question “How did they bully
you”. As can be concluded that even though they do not realize that they are being bullied,
there are problems that happen to them and it is clear that more IBD students must have
bullied increasingly.
Posting comments or rumors about you online that are mean, hurtful, or
embarrassing.
Posting a mean or hurtful your picture or video.
Posting mean or hateful names, comments, or content about any race,
religion, ethnicity or other your personal characteristics online.
Doxing, an abbreviated form of the word documents, is a form of online
harassment used to exact revenge and to threaten and destroy the
privacy of individuals by making your personal information public,
including addresses, social security, credit card and
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
54%
17%
19%
8%
23%
4%
7%
How did they bully?
Figure 2 IBD students’ responses to the notice of ways the bullies bully them.
As shown in the table, the number of students supporting the idea of “E: posting
comments” accounted for the highest number, at nearly 54%. It is clear that commenting is a
popular method on social media. Whether people familiar or not, they are always judged. Just
because people think that when people posted publicly on social media, they need to be
assessed. A few other ways also involve in posting which is pretty much chosen after posting
comments is “posting hurtful picture” (19%) and “posting hateful your personal
characteristics” (23%). Religious and religion differences are inevitable. Everyone is living in
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a different environment, having different interests, and different in every way, especially
when we live in the Internet world where billions of people use it and is gradually becoming
a disaster. Just need a unique characteristic is that you can be instantly submerged with just a
click.
Another poor technique that the cyberbullying takes is that students will threaten (17%) or
pretend themselves online (8%) in order to hurt and solicit or post personal or false
information about them. Despite only a few students encounter this sitution, it is undeniable
its seriousness. If the incident is seriously prolonged, it can cause serious psychological
effects such as fear or depression. It will be demonstrated more clearly in part 2 “the main
causes of cyberbullying”.
And the final form of bullying for IBD students is doxing (7%) it means that they will
public the privacy of individuals, your personal information... and the last one is creating a
hurtful webpage (4%). These cases happen to people once in the blue moon. Nevertheless,
especially celebrities will occur a lot. For instance, recently airport staff arbitrarily spread the
passport photos of two members of the Korean group or we can see a series of anti-page
created on Facebook even a Vietnamese high school student was fined for this. It clearly saw
many of the consequences to celebrities such as stress, depression even death. (be covered in
part 3 “negative impact”)
In general, the actual being bullied circumstance of IBD students has been increasingly
becoming and it also is a controversial problem. So why has this situation developed
strongly? What is the main reason?
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2. The main causes of cyber bullying at IBD:
When people invented the Internet, even the American technology pioneer- Rheingold
Howard (Linda, H., 1993) has once identified that Internet does not see the shape of age and
origin of each other, he is optimistic that the network will be a land without prejudice.
However, the invisible anonymity on the Internet brings in the feeling of equality, hardly
discrimination and also offers the users even power to do things in their own ways. The
survey gives out an almost 50-50 proportion of both sides which means one out of every two
internet users suffers from cyberbullying. (but it may not reflect the most accurate situation).
To learn better about the situation, a question relating to factors causing cyberbullying
had been made with many potential causes (respondents are able to pick more than one
option for this question).
anger
revenge
jealousy
thirst for difference/famous
anonymity of social networks
trend and movement
differences in characteristic
low seft-esteem
others…
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
28%
32%
55%
27%
22%
35%
27%
25%
7%
Figure 3 Percentages of IBD students’ point of view about the cause of
So, the question is “What do you think are the main reasons for cyber bullying?”
All the options are listed based on the first seven people interviewed about the reasons
of cyberbullying in terms of their perspectives. Apparently, apart from anonymity, low self-
esteem issues and trend, most options are somehow relating to emotion because emotion is
considered to be the primary driver of action, so it often affects people’s behavior the most.
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