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Cyberbullying and It’s Latest Victim, Girls

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By: Abigail Linski and Carolin Kimmy

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What is Cyberbullying?

  • Cyberbullying is the act of harassing and maliciously making fun of other people through the internet.
  • Different from traditional bullying.

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What do you mean by age group?

  • The ages in which middle and high school girls range from happens to be anywhere from 11-18 years.

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Why Teenage Girls?

  • Teenage girls tend to be more passive aggressive and that affects their online behavior.
  • Seventeen Magazine conducted a survey with girls 12-18 years old
    • 74% spent majority of their time online
  • 2010 study performed by the Cyberbullying Research Center (Donegan 2012)
    • 4,441 teens sampled (11-18 years of age)
      • Admitted to getting harassed online (16.6% male , 25.1% female)
      • Admitted to committing an offence (17.5% males , 21.3% female)
      • Had a hateful comment posted about them online (10.5% male , 18.2% female)

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  • The first graph shows the progression of cyberbullying and the decline of school bullying

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  • The second figure displays the difference in bullying between genders

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  • As the years go on, the girls percentage increases, while the boys decrease.

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  • The higher the grade, the lower the percentages of cyberbullying.

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Psychological effects

  • Many children that are cyberbullied totally skew the mental image of themselves
  • Many girls who are cyberbullied are often made fun of for their body image, leaving them left a the thoughts of not being good enough
    • Some girls think this is their fault, which can lead them to self harm

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Effects it can have on school performance

  • Some teenage will not want to go to school
    • With students not going to school, it can cause their grades to drop
  • They would be focused on what is happening on social media in class or at home
    • This can lead to no school work being completed, causing grades to drop

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Extreme Case :

  • Amanda Todd
    • Committed suicide on Oct. 10, 2012 due to extreme cyberbullying
    • Todd was exploited for a screenshot of her breasts that was captured from a video chat
    • The photo circulated and the result
      • Online attacks

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Just cause it happens to girls...

  • Teenage boys get cyber bullied too, just not as often as girls do.
    • In 2012, 15%-18% of boys were getting cyber bullied.
    • Boys are less likely to get cyber bullied because they don’t have the same standards as girls do.

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What Teenage Girls Do After They Get Cyberbullied

  • Try or do commit suicide
  • Try and change themself to become “better”
  • Hurt themself
  • They get emotionally and physically scared while potentially damaging friendships and current/future relationships.

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Preventing cyberbullying

  • Minimize the amount of cyberbullying by educating both parents and children
  • Educate the children about the signs
  • Shut the computer and not listen to what the the bullies have to say.

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Paving the way to a Cyberbullying - Free World

  • Nevada surveyed 118 middle school principals
    • 3 of the schools explained their strategies
  • 6 essential elements utilized by those

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Works Cited

Crooks, H. R. (2017). An Intersectional Feminist Review of the Literature on Gendered Cyberbullying: Digital Girls. Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 8(2), 62-88. The Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures, University of Winnipeg. Retrieved April 10, 2019, from Project MUSE database.

Ging, D. & O’Higgins Norman, J. (2016) “Cyberbullying, conflict management or just messing? Teenage girls’ understandings and experiences of gender, friendship, and conflict on Facebook in an Irish second-level school” Feminist Media Studies, 16:5, 805-821, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2015.1137959

Betts, L. R., Spenser, K. A., & Gardner, S. E. (2017). Adolescents’ involvement in cyber bullying and perceptions of school: The importance of perceived peer acceptance for female adolescents. Sex Roles, 77(7-8), 471-481. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11199-017-0742-2

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Works Cited contd.

Donegan, R. (2012). Bullying and Cyberbullying: History, Statistics, Law, Prevention and Analysis. The Elon Journal of Undergraduate Research in Communications. 3(1). 33-42. Retrieved from https://www.elon.edu/docs/e-web/academics/communications/research/vol3no1/04doneganejspring12.pdf

Kessel Schneider, S. O'Donnell, L. Smith, E. (2015). Trends in Cyberbullying and School Bullying Victimization in a Regional Census of High School Students, 2006‐2012. Journal of School Health. 85(9). 611-620. Retrieved from :

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