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Executive Summary

Basically, this assignment illustrates cyberbullying used by the young generation in social media. This assignment focuses on the new media as well as the young generation that how young generation accepts new technology. In this assignment, the researcher focuses on the difference between bullying and cyberbullying. This assignment puts light on two fields in order to successfully adopt social capital as well as cultural capital. It also focuses on a framework analysis of the assignment. Furthermore, it also includes research methodology while conducting the research paper. In the end, a short conclusion has been illustrated.

 

Table of Contents

Aims and Objectives.

Research Question.

Theoretical Context of Research.

Methodology.

Findings.

Strengths and Limitations.

Contributions and Findings of Research.

Improvements upon the Research.

Avenues for Future Research.

References. 

Aims and Objectives

The objective of this article is to analyze the research on some young generation of Australia along with their teachers about the usage level of social media and cyberbullying. The focus of this research is on online oppositional peer relations as well as the adoption of strategies and policies by schools in order to deal with cyberbullying.

Research Question

The specific question that was being asked in the research was, what is the emotional effect of cyberbullying on young generation with the use of social media online?

Theoretical Context of Research

The theoretical perspective of this research is to elucidate two fields such as social capital and cultural capital. Therefore, social capital refers to an effectiveness of social networking in creating a strong bond of friendship and statuses of people in both conditions whether they are online or offline. On the other hand, cultural capital refers capacity of using social media successfully as well as it also refers to the knowledge about trendy and cool language in communication.

The concept of Bullying and Cyberbullying

Bullying means to harm someone through intentional behavior, where the victim is not able to protect him or herself because of the difference in power (Ringrose, 2008). Cyberbullying means to adopt an aggressive behavior towards a certain group or an individual online by means of the electronic system. Through social media cyberbullying has played a vital role. Furthermore, cyberbullying has some particular and specialized features as compare to bullying which attracts youth. It provides ease to get connect with relatives, possible privacy, technological expertise, intricacy in avoidance from harassment as well as the perception of young generation is that cyberbullying is a way to gain the status (Buelga, 2010). Youth cannot escape from cyberbullying because it creates its positions in their minds. Moreover, it amplifies its impact by the assault on the private domain. In the view of Weinstein and Selman, 2014, the potential and affordability of social media is very crucial for cyberbullying.

 Social media provides immense opportunities to youth but on the other hand, there are some “digital stressors” that create problems in youth social media interaction. This stress is caused by negative interactions between youth and social media in emails, blogs, forums, texts etc. There are different types of digital stress through which most of the times an expression of young people may aggressive, brutal as well as meanness. Stressor includes harassing personal attacks, meanness, humiliating messages means private information of someone else is shared on Facebook, impersonation by hacking other’s account, using digital accounts by using someone else pictures without their permission (Weinstein and Selman, 2014). In short, digital media provides harmful ways of communication for youth as well as the use of cyberbullying may be severe for the young generation (Price and Dalgleish, 2010). These experiences that are faced in cyberbullying are little diverse from bullying (harming someone face to face).

New Media and Youth

Today the young generation is known as a digital generation. There is no difference between the term old media and new media. This is a change in the technology according to the perceptions of the young generation. In accordance with Buckingham (2013), the acceptance of new technology as a new media is considered to be refuted by pointing out some social activities of young generation such as chatting with friends, gossiping with friends, flirting, showing off and so on. Therefore, the young generation is putting themselves in trouble by using online and new technologies (Ito et al., 2009; Papacharissi, 2014)…