Cyber Bulling and Its Issues
5/24/2009
CJ230
Unit 9
Deborah Brice
Memo
To: Attorney General
From: Deborah Brice
May 24, 2009
Subject: Cyber Bulling
FOR INFORMATION PURPOSES, ONLINE COMMUNICATION AND ENTERTAINMENT
Cyber technologies are used by adolescents (to deliver information, communication and
USE BY
entertainment.) The Web and mobile phones( are where )adolescents( go to talk and (catch) up)
FOR COMMUNICATING WITH EACH OTHER
with friends). Cyber-bullying is a growing phenomenon in virtual communication
THERE IS VERY
environments and( there appears to be very )little that the law, technology, schools or
parents can do to stop it.
AND THEY LACK THE Read this and tell me what you think. If you see anything that needs to be changed.
KNOWLEDGE OF THE INTERNET TECHNOLOGY
The majority of Internet users are under 25 years of age. (Yet youth and their
uses of communication technology are poorly understood.) YOUNG PEOPLE IN(Youth )society is undergoing
significant and substantial changes as a result of new information and communication
technologies. Young people have access to many 'languages' of communication and multiple
modes of delivering information. They frequently combine text, voice, graphics, video and
gaming genres WHEN COMMUNICATINGWITH EACH OTHER. The EASY WAY OF( ease )of creating as well as communicating in cyberspace has led to changing
patterns of participation. Adolescents are not simply participants in this environment but THEY ARE actively
(shape)SHAPING the nature of the environment itself. They establish communities and adapt
technology to their needs. It was believed that the markets drove the actions of the
adolescents, but increasingly it appears that the TEENAGERS( teens) (8-12 year...