Sourced Based Essay

Ee Yon Ian Cui

Professor Jean-Pierre

English Composition 110

18 Sep 2019

Cyberbullying: A Sourced Based Essay

Internet is a global network system that connects all the computers and linking devices from different places of the world. It consists of mainly two medium, social media and social network. The words that make up each term refer to their definition and meaning. Social Media refers to sharing information through an instrument of communication such as TV, radio, newspaper, and internet. Social network refers to the interaction and communication between people within a group. The main issue of the internet is that it provides a range of potentially harming problems, such as cyberbullying and insulting content. An example would be posting feed on social media that harm others or harassing people by incessantly bothering. Effects of cyberbullying cause people to get psychological, emotional, mental, and even physical stresses, such as low self-esteem, negative thoughts, as well as low performance in school. Furthermore, some people even decide to physically hurt themselves or suicide due to the anxiety and agony of being constantly abused or bullied. This writing will investigate various sources on the topic of cyberbullying. The sources utilize contrasting tones and medium, but shares the same purpose and stances of condemning online bullying.

The issues of cyberbullying are extremely frightful because it’s associating with a matter of life. Instance of such behaviors include when the other person humiliate you, then accusing you of being too sensitive or having no sense of humor. Comparatively is the same when they force you to be the guilty person and pretending themselves as the victims. This shows how the use of language intensifies bullying through various dreadful ways.

Website

Cyberbullying can be present and manifest in many different ways. Even online gaming, which is usually seen as pure entertainment, cyberbullying can take place. In the article “When Cyberbullying and Bullying Meet Gaming: A Systemic Review of the Literature ” by Li Qing, the author explains the intercommunications between gaming and cyberbullying. The author argues that cyberbullying in video game culture causes players to be obsessively immersed from games, which lead them into an argument where they use inappropriate and offensive words. Besides, cyberbullying in games tends to occur often when the players are being too addicted to the games, because players that are addicted to games often spend a lot of time on games without resting. Which causes them to be mentally stressed and easily get emotionally angered whenever something went wrong in the games. Therefore causing them to be verbally abusive in games to others and spread cynical thoughts especially on violent and shooting games. The argument explicates the stances of the author towards cyberbullying in a very repulsive way. this According to the text, cyberbully is defined or characterized ” an individual or group willfully using information and communication involving electronic technologies to facilitate deliberate and repeated harassment or threat to another individual or group by sending or posting cruel text and/ or graphics using technological means,” (cyberbullying, pg3). Shows internet media as the medium used to deliver the message that harassment and cyberbullying indicates the same meaning, which refers to any offensive or threatful behaviors such as calling someone garbage in terms of their playstyle in games. Likewise, if they were to constantly shouting and screaming at you, it is a form of condescension and criticism. To demonstrate, if a person says ” How do you screw up again, why can’t you do anything right?” It expresses the tone that will cause you to feel depressed and drops your self-esteem. In terms of how the message is delivered and conveyed, the article uses non-fiction and reports to inform audiences that contribute to video game cultures. The ultimate purpose of this article is to indicate how the use of language and tone can affect a person emotionally without using any humiliating words that can hurt you directly.

Scholar Article

There is been a long argues that women have been experiencing gender inequality in different forms. Apart from sexualized bullying and gender bullying, cyberbullying also comes to expect of females. From the book “eGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy Into Dialogue with Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices” by Jane Bailey. It discusses how cyberbullying is being presented through sexualized violence among youth. This article makes clear on how cyberbullying through language can put a girl in a severe risk of being harass, abused and cursed.”It is not merely a question of her privacy, but of her privacy from the relentlessly intrusive humiliation of sexualized online bullying”(Pg307). The author uses a very serious and judgmental tone to describe that bullying can be uttered persistently and will continue if there’s no compelling to it. Also in the text, it says “she was deeply affected by both the aggressive cyberbullying and bullying conducted at the hands of her peers, and the deliberate sexual extortion, or “sextortion,” by unknown online predators “(Pg308). The author’s clarifying sexual extortion as sextortion to present the language constructions in a repulsive idea. The wording and language present the phenomenon that is created from the constant events of sexual conduct. The book uses non-fiction as a genre to present the severity of sexualized online bullying towards female audiences. Through the use of language and tone, the author developed her stance in the article mostly by using a feminist lens to describe how cyberbullying can deeply affect a person through constant degradation, which they employ shame and harassment on you and put you into a difficult and stressful situation.

Magazine

As technology progresses, cyberbullying instead of actual bullying have been appearing on a larger scale in our society. In the article “Cyberbullying: a 21st-Century Phenomenon” by Reisha FG Grigoria. It talks about the phenomenon of threatening others and frighten people into compliance through cyberbullying. In the text it says “disinhibition is the reason why cyberbullying contains such a strong threatening factor. Thus, remarkably, it is the anonymity that allows some individuals to bully at all.” The author uses a persuasive and informative tone to describe the privilege of online abusers under anonymity empowers their desire to bully and harm others more. The existence of anonymity doesn’t make the bullies to realize that the more power that you possess on something, the more responsibilities you should be taking in return based on your inappropriate activity. Because they usually receive no punishments and are not accountable for anything when hiding themselves as anonymity. According to the text, it says “people are not totally invisible or anonymous when they use information and communication technologies. In most cases, they leave ‘cyber footprints’ wherever they go.” shows that the only sign that was left is the disdainful and traumatized feelings for those being bullied. “In 2012, Amanda Todd uploaded a video onto YouTube, explaining how cyberbullying had made her life a living hell”,(The Story of Amanda Todd). The article uses social media as a communicative genre and videos as a medium to express the cruelty of online bullying and the necessity of being aware of such a phenomenon.

Newspaper Article

For every action that we do, there’s usually an equal and opposite reaction that occurs in return to us. Although sometimes there’s no visible or obvious reactions. But it brings a lot of uncertain factors that might be occurring based on your activity. An example would be causing someone to feel obliterated through language. From the Newspaper article “The Cruelty of Call-Out Culture” by David Brook. It discusses a female whose name is Emily that was being bullied and hated by the school because she used to be the same type of person that makes fun and criticism of others. When she realized how pitiful it is to bully someone, everything was too late. All her friends left her and as other people started to insult her, she was traumatized. According to the text, It says ” The guy who called out Emily is named Herbert. He told “Invisibilia” that calling her out gave him a rush of pleasure, like an orgasm. He was asked if he cared about the pain Emily endured. “No, I don’t care,” he replied. “I don’t care because it’s obviously something you deserve, and it’s something that’s been coming. … I literally do not care about what happens to you after the situation. I don’t care if she’s dead, alive, whatever,” (Pg23). Through the tone, it shows pure criticism that will put people in depressions. It shows how people would take this as a way to satisfy and release stress for themselves by harming others. In the text, Emily says “It’s entirely my life,” she told “Invisibilia” tearfully. “Like, this is everything to me. And it’s all just, like, done and over.” The article mentions the term “Invisibilia” repeatedly to make the audience focus on the word, and know the importance of it. The term “Invisibilia” is the social media that’s providing them an invisible shield. To hide their impotent and ineffectual. “The crust of civilization is thinner than you think,”(Pg23). Specifies the author’s attitude towards cyberbullying, that the trust between people is frailty. When anxiety and fear exist, neither people or properties will be safe. The article is to inform the audience to be a civil person and don’t depersonalize yourself because that will make no distinction between you and the bully.

Cyberbullying has been a concern ever since the internet was created. It is the bullying that takes place over digital devices instead of in real life. It can be more harmful than bullying in real life because it crosses more lines into unlawful or criminal behaviors. Language used to cyberbully includes criticism, accusation, blaming, condescension and degradation, which causes people to be traumatized, lowering self-esteem and even committing to suicide. Therefore, we should be taking aware of the words we use to speak with others and prevent cyberbullying from spreading.

Work Cited

Website:

Qing Li. “When Cyberbullying and Bullying Meet Gaming: A Systematic Review of the Literature.” OMICS International, OMICS International, 20 July 2015.

https://www.longdom.org/open-access/when-cyberbullying-and-bullying-meet-gaming-a-systemic-review-of-the-literature-2161-0487-1000195.pdf

Scholarly Article:

Bailey Jane. “ eGirls, eCitizens: Putting Technology, Theory and Policy into Dialogue with

Girls’ and Young Women’s Voices” published by University of Ottawa Press, 2019.