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MBA, Ph.D in Management
Harvard university
Feb-1997 - Aug-2003
Professor
Strayer University
Jan-2007 - Present
The research problem I am considering is cyberbullying and social media. This is, unfortunately, a very serious problem in our society, particularly with the age of the students I deal with on a daily basis. Students
and parents are constantly coming into our office with complaints
about cyberbullying and they are using the social media as a means to
do so. According to Boyd (2014), over 43% of teenagers are bullied using social media outlets. The numbers are increasing.
It is a critical problem because many of our teenagers take their lives
because they don’t know what to do about it or who to report it to. One
of the articles of interest is “The Question Exists, but You Don’t Exist
With It”: Strategic Anonymity in the Social Lives of Adolescents. (I’m
still researching another journal article).It offers a series of studies that
authenticates what is perceived as contentious interactions behind the
walls of social media. This intrigues me because it appears that bullying interactions have steadily climbed as more and more social media
outlets emerged.
Even more perplexing, affirms Suler (2004) are the relationships young
people develop with mere strangers, not knowing who they really are
or what they really even look like. Initiating and developing relationships are not as traditional as they used to be. Before sharing personal
information, for example, one would think persons would get to know
each other, meet each other in person, thus, develop a trusting relationship before doing so. However, this is not the case in social media.
These young people use “Facebook,” “Snapchat,” and “Skype” to
name a few to immediate form relationships without further investigations, even if it is informal.
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