Bullying and Cyberbullying
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Bullying and cyberbullying
The cyber bullying is the online manifestation of a wider and better phenomenon known as bullying. The latter is characterized by violent actions and intimidation exercised by a bully, or a group of bullies, on a victim. The actions may involve verbal harassment, physical assaults, persecutions, generally implemented in the school environment. Today technology allows the bullies to infiltrate the homes of the victims, to materialize in each moment of their life, haunting them with messages, images, video offensive sent via smartphone or posted on websites via Internet. Bullying then becomes cyberbullying. Cyberbullying defines a set of aggressive and intentional actions, of a single person or a group, made using electronic tools (sms, mms, photo, video, email, chat rooms, istant messaging, Web sites, phone calls), whose objective is that of causing damage to a peer unable to defend himself.
Differences between bullying and cyberbullying
| Bullying | Cyberbullismo |
| I'm only the students of the class and / or the Institute are involved; | Can to be involved children and adults from all over the world; |
| generally only those with a strong character, capable of imposing its power, can he become a bully; | anyone, even those who are victims in real life, he can become a cyberbully; |
| the bullies are they students, classmates or schoolmates, known to the victim; | the cyberbullies can be anonymous and solicit the participation of others “friends” anonymous, so that the person does not know who he is with interacting; |
| Actions of bullying are told to other students at the school where they are occurred, they are limited to a specific environment; | the material used for cyberbullying actions can be spread all over the world; |
| Actions bullying occurs during school hours or on the way home-school, school-home; | the aggressive communications can take place 24 hours on 24; |
| the school or group dynamics limit aggressive actions; | the cyberbullies have ample freedom to do online what they could not do in real life; |
| need of the bully to dominate interpersonal relationships through contact direct with the victim; | perception of invisibility by the cyberbully through concealed actions behind the technology; |
| reactions evident by the victim and visible in the act of bullying; | absence of visible reactions on the part of the victim that do not allow the cyberbully to see the effects of their actions; |
| tendency to to shirk responsibility by bringing the actions of to a playful level violence. | splitting of personality: the consequences of one's actions are attributed to “user profile” created. |
Reference legislation
Appointment of the Anti-Bullying Team / Emergency Team as. 21/22
Circus. Int. No. 205 appoints Team Anti-Bullying Team for the emergency
Ministerial Directive of 15 March 2007 – Guidelines for using cell phones
Regulation of e-policy of the I.C..
