CIBERBULLYING: A PROBLEM WITH ACADEMIC REPERCUSSION.

UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTNOMA DE MXICO. ESCUELA NACIONAL PREPARATORIA. NO.2 ERASMO CASTELLANOS QUINTOS CIBERBULLYING: A PROBLEM WITH ACADEMIC REPERCUSSION. GUERRERO SAMANO LILIA (TUTOR). OLVERA BARRERA JOSAFAT. LPEZ GUTIRREZ MARCO ANTONIO. CONTANCT: zofur_7669@hotmail.com marcolopgut@hotmail.com tel. 0445541069284

 Cyberbullying is a problem which impact on the academic aspect

affecting the school performance and self esteem of the victim or victims, basically a little tolerance and a small contribution to the culture of respect for others, is our objective.

SUMMARY

Sending surveys through social networks like facebook we can

achieve a slight awareness, a small grain of sand to create a tolerant and solidarity thinking.

The surveys show us alarming results, and then the conclusion is

which cyberbullying should be removed gradually with solidarity ideas and a respectful attitude.

INTRODUCTION

Cyberbullying is described as being an aggressive, intentional

act or behavior that is carried out by a group or an individual repeatedly and over time against a victim who cannot easily defend him or herself1. This problem can appear in various ways as text messages, videos, e-mails, chats, blogs, websites, comments, harassment and instant messaging.

JUSTIFICATION

We need to make this issue well known for the sake of

children and students around the world. The surveys provide us information, represented in percentages of a whole within the classroom. Knowing who and how it affects them, we can all take action; our study is based in collecting these data and provide preventive measures for the future based on said information.

 Cyberbullying is a problem present in our reality, which is becoming

increasingly in a serious problem, affecting the mind of the victim. Is common that the problem appears in school. Because this, Cyberbullying is called as such only when children, prepubescent and adolescents are involved, otherwise it is cyber-harassment.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

The online poll of more than 18,000 adults in 24 countries, 6,500 of whom
were parents, showed the most widely reported vehicle for cyberbullying was social networking sites likes Facebook, which were cited by 60 percent. 2

Mobile devices and online chat rooms were a distant second and third, each
around 40 percent.2

 The school is an easy target for this situations; the problem is how it affects,
our focus, so it is important to note strategies to prevent. The cyber-bully have some characteristics, there may be the fourth basic types "vengeful angel, power-hungry, the mean girls and the inadvertent". 2

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

Examples of ciberbullying:
Sending mean, vulgar, or threatening messages or images. Posting sensitive, private information about another person. Pretending to be someone else in order to make that person look bad. Intentionally excluding someone from an online group. Spreading lies and rumors about victims. Tricking someone into revealing personal information.

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
According to statistics, "13 million Mexicans are potential victims of
cyberbullying ... 37% of users are between 12 and 18 years old The 40% of elementary and middle school students have been victims of violence, 90% at some point in their lives have been bullied Even though the cyberbullying rate of victimization fell to 40.6% in 2004 to 20.8% in 2010, which means that one child in five is attacked via electronic media, the number of minors who commit bullying has remained stable (20.1% in 2004, 19.4% in 2010). 3

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
In another online pool made in 2012 that from a total of 3000 people, 30%
are or used to be harrased online.

From those 3000; 17% were affected on psychological way, some of them
ending on psychological clinics or in support groups.

And the 53% rest of those people used to or still does some form of
ciberbullying to friends and classmates. 4

THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
Other data show that in Mexico, in 2008 22.6% of high school students were
insulted Internet and 11.4% were sexually harassed online. In Brazil, in 2010, 72% of adolescents met someone who was the subject of cyberbullying, 10% of them were victims of cyberbullying. In 2009, 25% of Spanish adolescents were harassed through their cell phone or online. For this year, the UK authorities estimate that 42% of the country's children have been harassed online3.

OBJECTIVES

Knowing which social networks are more prone to it know how many students within our group are victims or
victimizers

compare results with similar national or international

studies,

draw conclusions from this information. knowing what percentage affects one on a psychic level

HYPOTHESES

We expect to have lower national numbers on

people affected compared to international studies; and also having less people who does cyberbullying. Also we expect facebook being the biggest place where victims and victimizers intertwine thanks to its popularity and widespread.

DEVELOPMENT

We have made surveys in the groups facebook

page just to find information that will help us in our investigation. The names have been omitted out for respect for our fellows. But obtaining meaningful data from these.

RESULTS

In our group 40% have suffered cyberbullying, at 13% has

affected him psychologically, 47% have committed cyberbullying to others. Of these cases, 83% occurred in facebook, 12% in twitter and 1% on other networks. Compared to the U.S. where 60% have been for facebook, twitter 33% and 7% by other networks.

RESULTS IN GRAPHICS
LOCAL RESULTS NATIONAL RESULTS

Victimizers

30%

Victimizers Affected psychologically

40% 47%
Affected psychologically Victims

53%

Victims

17% 13%

RESULTS IN GRAPHICS
Social Networks Used MX Social Networks Used USA

Facebook

Twitter

Others

Facebook

Twitter

Others

DISCUSSION OF THE RESULTS

From this results we can deduce that cyberbullying has

spread like a common problem, and quite affects the lives of the victims or at least makes them a have a hard time.

So the culture of tolerance should be reinforced.

Preventive talks with kids parents so they can provide support and punishments for the victims and the other kids who harass other children online.

CONCLUSIONS
We observe that the National results are similar to our local results, its
evident that most people bully other people, probably because its easy, and only a 13% is affected to a personal level thanks to people learning how to dissociate with their online persona. We also can see a big gap that its slowly closing in relation with the US numbers, I assume that its because computers are just more widespread in the US and not so much in Mexico. At last Its important to remark that physical bullying is still present in mexican schools, so their influence is bigger on the children than cyberbullying

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2. Nicole, Robey M.A. (2010). Intervention and prevention strategies.

http://www.nasponline.org/resources/bullying/Cyberbullying.pdf (Last Accessed 24/09/2012)

3.

Vivanco, Daniel (2011) 13 millones de mexicanos, potenciales vctimas de Ciberbullying. http://www.pcworld.com.mx/Articulos/19134.htm (Last Accessed 01/01/13)

4. Hanson, Arin (2012) Cyberbullying en los pases latinos

http://www.stingfeed.com/random/phx.42479875.pdf