BUS111 Essay: Cyberbullying in Academic Success (Study Skills)

This essay provides an analysis of cyberbullying, defining it as an aggressive form of bullying that harms the victim's social status, particularly in schools and colleges. It highlights the persistent and repetitive nature of cyberbullying, facilitated by technology, and contrasts it with traditional bullying. Cyberbullying is characterized by threats, harassment, spreading rumors, and mockery through various online platforms like chat rooms and instant messaging. The essay emphasizes that cyberbullying is more widespread, indirect, and allows bullies to harass victims with greater confidence and reach. Unlike traditional bullying, victims find it harder to escape cyberbullying, which can cause more significant harm due to its rapid and extensive spread. The document concludes by referencing academic sources that support the analysis of cyberbullying's prevalence, impact, and risk factors.

BUSINESS
ACADEMIC
SUCCESS
Name of the Student:
Name of the University

CYBERBULLYING
• An aggressive form of bullying where the bully hurts the social
status of the victim.
• A very persistent form of bullying especially in schools and colleges.
• A repetitive act which happens over time because of the imbalance
in power among the individuals.
• Three types of bullying such as verbal, social and physical.
• Cyberbullying is a new type of bullying which has come into
existence with the emergence of technology.

• Most common form of cyber bullying is threats,
harassment, spreading of rumours and making fun of the
victim (Kopecký 2014).
• Different media forms such as chat rooms, online games
and instant messaging used by the bullied to threat and
use bad words against the victims.
• The bullying is initiated to hurt the reputation and
sentiment of the victims.

CYBERBULLYING VS
TRADITIONAL BULLYING
• Cyberbullying is a much widespread act as compared to traditional
bullying.
• It is an indirect form and hence the bully find more confidence to
harass the victim as they cannot be stopped or controlled.
• The range of spreading the rumours and harassment is far more
than traditional bullying and hence the audience is huge (Barlińska,
Szuster and Winiewski 2013).
• The audience for traditional bullying is controlled to a group of
friends, university or school.

• The victim finds no way to escape the bullying in cyber
bullying and the bully can continue the harassment
through different other medium when one is blocked
(Cappadocia, Craig and Pepler 2013).
• Most of the time the bullies in cyberbullying were at one
point or the other victims of traditional bullying.
• Cyberbullying can harm the victim more than traditional
bullying due to its intensity of expanding faster and
further.

References
• Kopecký, K., 2014. Cyberbullying and other risks of internet
communication focused on university students. Procedia-Social and
Behavioral Sciences, 112, pp.260-269.
• Barlińska, J., Szuster, A. and Winiewski, M., 2013. Cyberbullying among
adolescent bystanders: Role of the communication medium, form of
violence, and empathy. Journal of Community & Applied Social
Psychology, 23(1), pp.37-51.
• Cappadocia, M.C., Craig, W.M. and Pepler, D., 2013. Cyberbullying:
Prevalence, stability, and risk factors during adolescence. Canadian
Journal of School Psychology, 28(2), pp.171-192.