Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Ways in which cyberbullying can occur

'A. Flaming involves sending angry, rude, or vulgar messages directed at a person or persons privately or to an online group
B. Harassment involves repeatedly sending a person offensive messages
C. Denigration is sending or porting harmful, untrue, or cruel statements about a person to other people
D. Cyberstalking is harassment that includes threats of harm or is highly intimidating
E. Masquerading is pretending to be someone else and sending or posting material that makes that person look bad or places that person in potential danger
F. Outing and trickery involve engaging in tricks to solicit embarrassing information about a person and then making that information public
G. exclusion describes actions that specifically and intentionally exclude a person from an online group such as blocking a student from an IM buddies list' (Beale & Hall, 2007).

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