CYBERBULLYING: EFFECTS AND SOLUTIONS

1. EXECUTIVE Summary. 3
2. Introduction.. 4

III.         GOALS/OBJECTIVES. 5

1. NEEDS/PROBLEMS. 6
2. SCOPE OF WORK. 7
3. VI. TIMETABLE. 8

VII.       KEY PERSONNEL. 9

VIII.       CONCLUSION.. 10

1. IX. REFERENCES. 11

I.               Executive Summary

The issue of cyberbullying has been present in our society for decades now. Cyberbullying is a standalone psychological weapon resulting from digital life. The goal of this project is to ensure that bullies in our society exist no more and that victims of cyberbullying have been attended to for counselling and guidance. To achieve an ultimate goal of bully less society, the intervention of parents is paramount through their time and acceptance of cyberbullying effects. The project moreover addresses the barriers of lack of time by forcing parents to create time for their kids effortlessly. Solutions advanced by the proposal to end cyberbullying include parents’ engagement with their kids and the development of systems that detect bullies.

II.            Introduction

Cyberbullying is a 20^th-century type of violence that has seen fame rise with the rise in technology. Cyberbullying involves the use of electronic media such as text messages, social media, or any digital form of advancing bullying message to the target victim. The adverse effects of cyberbullying include the psychological torture that the bullied goes through, the guilt the bully endures, and the mental dent that witnesses of the bullying are exposed to. Cyberbullying is beyond the traditional physical bullying in schools, streets, and at workplaces. Physical effects of bullying can be solved and are exposed to a limited number of individuals but cyberbullying induces mental effects that stay in the conscious of the victim for years thus endangering their decision making and scraping their confidence in life. The public should be aware of the negative effects that cyberbullying carries and must stand together to offer a solution in the form of preventive measures and rehabilitation of the bullied.

III.          Goals/Objectives

• The foremost objective of this project is to ensure that cyberbullying reduces significantly in our society within a short period.
• The other short term goal of this project is to provide an insight for the government, the public, and the concerned parties of the adverse effects that cyberbullying has on its victims.
• It is the long term objective of this project to do away with cyberbullying in our society.
• Cyberbullying affects the output in the society by causing a vicious cycle of vengeance (Hinduja & Patchin, 2012), therefore, it is a goal for this project to ensure the future generation use technology for productive activities and not bullying of fellows.

IV.        Needs/Barriers

• To fully achieve the goal of this project, parents must be willing to dedicate their time into overseeing what their children are exposed to on the internet and finding signs of bullying and addressing them effectively.
• The parents, moreover, must press the government and the education structure to integrate a system that would detect bullying and deal with the perpetrators effectively thus deterring internet bullying.
• In a fast-growing world, parents are so committed in their works that it is hard to find time to track what goes on in the social spectrum of their children on the internet (Young et.al, 2017). Such a barrier would slow down the process of helping victims of cyberbullying to recover from their psychological torment, and also would be hard to stop bullying at all.
• Controlling what goes on on the internet is very difficult and costly especially when technology advances as days goes by (Kowalski et.al, 2012). Keeping up with mediums through which bullying is exploited is thus difficult and proves a problem for developing an effective system to deal with cyberbullying.

V.          Procedures/Scope of Work

1. Winning the confidence of parents and the government into investing their time and funds in dealing with cyberbullying requires hard evidence on the adverse effects of cyberbullying. The procedure that will be adopted in this project will be a face-to-face encounter with select parents to personally explain to them the negative effects of cyberbullying through use of existing examples (Hoff & Mitchell, 2009).
2. To overcome barriers of parent’s lack of time on their children’s internet affairs, the project proposes an effective ‘what if’ analysis that would be used to lure parents not to ignore what their children go through on the internet. Furthermore, to overcome the technological barrier, the project will adopt measures that will ensure cyberbullying is dealt with thoroughly in the parents’ level and will not require the intervention of technological input.

VI.        Timetable

VII.      Key Personnel

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VIII. Conclusion

Cyberbullying is a problem in the society that must be dealt with and stopped to ensure a better tomorrow. It is the responsibility of every individual to be involved in the fight against cyberbullying especially parents. Parents must understand that so much is at stake for the lives of their children because of the dangers posed by cyberbullying.

After identifying the requirements of proceeding with the project, data collection will follow and recommendation of solutions achieved. The results of the recommendation will be determined at the end of it all.

IX.         References

Hinduja, S., & Patchin, J. W. (2010). Bullying, cyberbullying, and suicide. Archives of suicide research, 14(3), 206-221.

Hoff, D. L., & Mitchell, S. N. (2009). Cyberbullying: Causes, effects, and remedies. Journal of Educational Administration.

Kowalski, R. M., Limber, S. P., & Agatston, P. W. (2012). Cyberbullying: Bullying in the digital age. John Wiley & Sons.

Young, R., Tully, M., & Ramirez, M. (2017). School administrator perceptions of cyberbullying facilitators and barriers to preventive action: A qualitative study. Health Education & Behavior, 44(3), 476-484.