{"id":1285,"date":"2004-08-26T22:44:41","date_gmt":"2004-08-26T22:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntu.my\/wp30\/archives\/2004\/08\/26\/teens_bullying_via_im_and_blogs.html"},"modified":"2004-08-26T22:44:41","modified_gmt":"2004-08-26T22:44:41","slug":"teens_bullying_via_im_and_blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/archives\/2004\/08\/26\/teens_bullying_via_im_and_blogs.html","title":{"rendered":"teens bullying via IM and blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/08\/26\/education\/26bully.html\">Internet Gives Teenage Bullies Weapons to Wound From Afar<\/a> is an article in the NYTimes today about how teens are using IM and blogs to bully other teens.  The whole article focuses on the psychology of teen bullying, about how it&#8217;s so much easier to engage in such cruel behavior from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>One thing that caught my eye was the gender differences in bullying: &#8220;Online bullying had a particular appeal for girls, who specialize in emotional rather than physical harassment and strive to avoid direct confrontation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something about this behavior that is not really explained, something very psychological.  The closest explanation we have comes from Milgram&#8217;s obedience experiments where he noted that people are more comfortable executing cruel acts when they don&#8217;t see the ramifications.  But i really want to have a clear psychological explanation for emotional distance and digital behavior.  Nothing that i&#8217;ve read gives a full explanation for this phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>That said, i really love NYTimes articles like this that don&#8217;t try to explain everything, but just open up a situation and explore it through anecdote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internet Gives Teenage Bullies Weapons to Wound From Afar is an article in the NYTimes today about how teens are using IM and blogs to bully other teens. The whole article focuses on the psychology of teen bullying, about how it&#8217;s so much easier to engage in such cruel behavior from a distance. One thing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instant-messaging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}