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Unit 3 Literature Review

Warming-up

Mini Discussion OBJECTIVE

Take a look at these four excerpts below. Answer the questions that follow.

Excerpt 1 Excerpt 2

The concept of workplace bullying Cyberbullying is a very complex Students are able to:
sometimes referred to as mobbing phenomenon, consisting of different 1. select appropriate
(Leymann, 1990), workplace abuse types of behavior. One type of that theories and
empirical review
(Keashly, 1998), victimization (Aquino & behavior is flaming. which involves
based on their
Stefan, 2009), workplace harassment sending violent and vulgar messages by topic.
(Brodsky, 1976), and verbal abuse an electronic device to provoke verbal 2. write literature
(Ferns & Meerabeau, 2007) refers to conflicts between two or more people review of research
situations where a person repeatedly within the network. The victim is not proposal.
and over a period of time feels always present (Qodir et al., 2019).
subjected to negative treatment on the Flaming occurs during a chat
part of one or more persons, and where conversation or interactive video
the person(s) exposed to the treatment games.
have difficulty in defending themselves
against this actions (Einarsen, 2000).

Excerpt 3 Excerpt 4

Hate speech is a type of hostile online Locations of aggressive behavior are
communication targeting social groups often in settings away from teachers
to insult, degrade, or belittle their such as the playground, hallways or
members (Hawdon et al., 2017). As gym. One study assessing rates of
such, hate speech is regarded as an aggression based on location found that
extreme expression of online incivility, for students who were victimized,
broadly defined as bearing “features of 40.5% were victimized in the classroom,
discussion that convey an unnecessarily whereas 76.9% were victimized on the
disrespectful tone” (Coe et al., 2014: playground, as well as large percentages
660). for other locations such as hallways and
the gym (Fekkes et al.,2005).

Adapted from: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/82480134.pdf, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7723823/,
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14614448221091185, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0143034300211002
Questions for discussion:

1. If the research question of the paper proposal is “What is the students’ perception of
cyberbullying?”, which excerpt will you choose as the theory?
2. Explain your considerations in choosing the above excerpts.

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