Week 4 / Week 5 : Research

Source:
Faceless, Nameless, Merciless: Anonymous Online Bullying
http://www.watchyourspace.ie/your-space/faceless-nameless-merciless-anonymous-online-bullying/

My Topic:
The anonymity has an effect on cyber bullying, especially verbal abuse.

What I hope to learn from this source:
I want to find how anonymity stimulate teenager's emotion and solution for cyber bullying if it's possible

Notes:

1. Anonymous internet users can come in many forms, from ‘trolls,’ stirring trouble in communal forums, to hateful bullies on personal sites.
2. People may expose themselves for a number of reasons, from their own insecurities, to simple curiosity.
3. Anonymity is not wholly a negative thing. It enables people to express themselves without fear, removes inhibition, and gives a voice to some who would usually be afraid to make themselves heard.
4. However, this becomes part of the problem of anonymous cyber bullying. Anonymity on the Internet sets us free.
5. When a bully has the power to harass someone anonymously, the consequences can be disastrous.They become able to remove themselves from the torment they are inflicting upon their victim. They cannot see beyond the veil of the computer screen and into the real world, in which they are causing the suffering of a real individual.
6. If one is being anonymously bullied, one may feel even more intimidated than one would if one knew the identity of one’s attacker. Uncertainty and confusion are horrible things.
7. In looking at anonymity, it is important to look at the motives of the bully. In this situation and in hiding their identity, a bully shows himself or herself to be truly weak and cowardly.
8. Not only are they being cruel and causing pain to another, they are doing it in an underhand way.
9. Often times, a cyber bully may be suffering from bullying in everyday life, or have been a past sufferer. In a lot of cases, the anonymous bully is a pitiable case, pathetic in their desire to abuse others, remaining hidden from view.
10. If you are a victim of cyber bullying, it is important to remember that you are not alone. It is also crucial not to forget your own strength. Although a bully may feel protected behind the safety of their screen, you hold the power.
11. If you are a victim of cyber bullying, it is important to remember that you are not alone. It is also crucial not to forget your own strength. Although a bully may feel protected behind the safety of their screen, you hold the power.
12. Firstly, ignore the bully if at all possible. Secondly, keep a record of any abuse you receive, by taking a screenshot or otherwise. Lastly and perhaps most importantly, don’t believe the bully…don’t allow them to corrode your self-esteem.

Final Thoughts:

This source has really appropriate information that I wanted. I could know not only how anonymity affect bully's mind but also bullied one's feeling. Also, I got some solutions for cyber bullying. 

Source:

Bullying: Name online bullies and ban anonymity, says MP

http://metronews.ca/news/canada/433112/name-online-bullies-and-ban-anonymity-says-mp/

My Topic:

The anonymity has an effect on cyber bullying, especially verbal abuse.

What I hope to learn from this source:

I want to find some expert's opinion about this topic.

Notes:

1. It’s difficult to imagine how we can protect freedom of expression without protecting some form of anonymity with websites and comments online.
2. It’s essential to recognize that good intentions of having people stand by their words chill and prevent many useful expressions that cannot be done publicly.
3. People choose to be anonymous online for many constructive reasons. They include being a whistleblower, reporting incidents of bullying or just having a social or political conversation that they would not want their families, friends or employers to know about.
4. The right to privacy doesn’t extend to anonymous bullies, according to Ontario’s information and privacy commissioner.

Final Thoughts:

This source provide expert's opinion that back up my idea. But I think the content of my research is a little similar. I need to find other resources which has different content or of other view.

Source:

Amid Bullying & Threats Of Violence, Anonymous Social App Yik Yak Shuts Off Access To U.S. Middle & High School Students

http://techcrunch.com/2014/03/13/amid-vicious-bullying-threats-of-violence-anonymous-social-app-yik-yak-shuts-off-access-to-u-s-middle-high-school-students/

My Topic:

The anonymity has an effect on cyber bullying, especially verbal abuse.

What I hope to learn from this source:

I want to find a detailed example which is able to support my argument. 

Notes:

1. The founders of an up-and-coming anonymous messaging app called Yik Yak, that began to take off among the middle school and high school crowd where it has been linked to both bullying and threats, have taken the unprecedented step of actually blocking younger users from accessing its application while on school grounds.
2. Yik Yak was launched by two Furman University students as something of a hyperlocal Twitter aimed at college students.
3. Though the nature of anonymous sharing leaves room for the unwanted element of cyberbullying, the issue worsened in the hands of these younger users. Soon, Yik Yak was causing trouble in schools, leading to vicious bullying that some students equated to, according to an article by CNN, “a virtual bathroom wall where users post vitriol and hate.”
4. I’d say it was far worse than that, with posts that, for example, actually saw some students bullying a girl for getting raped. In another case, an Alabama teen was arrested after threatening to shoot someone via a post on Yik Yak. And then there were the anonymous bomb threats, which saw schools going on lockdown.

Final Thoughts:

I could get a real and detailed example which is about 'Yik Yak' and I think I need to connect my argument and this example.