Teenagers' Motive in Cyberbullying Against Micro-Celebrities on Social Media

Cyberbullying is a form of social media abuse most often carried out by teenagers because there are no specific requirements to examine how to use social media. Uniquely, the impact of cyberbullying in Indonesia can make victims viral and famous categorized as Micro-Celebrities. Micro-Celebrities are the ones famous for their content broadcasted through social media. This research aims to explain teenagers' motives in doing cyberbullying against Micro-Celebrities through social media. The research method used is descriptive qualitative with a phenomenology approach. Data is collected through in-depth interviews with female teenage informants 15 – 17 years of age. The research was conducted at SMAN 4, Bekasi City, located in a suburban area where most teenagers are heavy social media users. Summary of research result shows that teenagers’ motives to do cyberbullying against Micro-Celebrities are: (1) feeling dislike of micro-celebrities personality; (2) intending to insinuate with unethical negative comments; (3) feeling envious and intending to incite; (4) feeling that micro-celebrities do not deserve popularity when compared to macro-celebrities. Cyberbullying by teenagers against micro-celebrities is in the form of negative comments in the comments column. These micro-celebrities are being bullied because they are considered to have gained popularity by spreading harmful content. Teenagers disagree with celebrities who are instantly famous because it is very unfair to celebrities who have creations and positively benefit society

Global issues and global values in foreign language education : selection and awareness-raising

The global education trend has recently been gaining in significance in education systems throughout the world. This paper discusses a number of issues regarding the possibility of incorporating a global perspective into foreign language education, and considering also some of the implications of this for language teacher education Firstly, I shall describe my former teaching context – a pre-service foreign language teacher training course at the Belarusian State Pedagogical University in Minsk, Belarus. Then, I shall briefly discuss the concept of global education and its particular relevance to foreign language teaching, focusing on global issues and values as ways of incorporating a global perspective into foreign language education. Next, I shall report on and discuss the findings of my 2001 study of EFL teachers’ attitudes to certain aspects of the incorporation of a global perspective into foreign language education

The evaluation of a breast cancer screening decision aid in the community setting.

Breast cancer screening (BCS) has been recommended to women by healthcare providers as well as professional organizations and non-profit awareness organizations for over four decades. Recently, attention is being paid to quantification of the actual benefits and harms of BCS with mammography. The harms include overdiagnosis, overtreatment and mandate of mammography screening that may not be in alignment with the individual values and preferences of women ages 40-69. This evidence translation project developed a resource for practice that was evaluated by community participants for alignment with personal value and preference-based educational needs about BCS. This project piloted a clinical practice decision aid (DA), called My Personal Decision (MPD), directly to a community-based convenience sample of women ages 40-69. Through a small sample of women, a change in knowledge about the harms and benefits of BCS was demonstrated. Evaluation feedback from the participants before and after use of the tool confirmed that MPD was helpful and enhanced preparedness for BCS decision-making. Provision of evidence-based information directly to women in the community setting was well received and perceived as valuable in the screening decision-making process in this context. Understanding of evidence-based information is a fundamental element in the empowerment of the decision maker with the goal of informed decision-making

Online civic intervention: A new form of political participation under conditions of a disruptive online discourse

In the everyday practice of online communication, we observe users deliberately reporting abusive content or opposing hate speech through counterspeech, while at the same time, online platforms are increasingly relying on and supporting this kind of user action to fight disruptive online behavior. We refer to this type of user engagement as online civic intervention (OCI) and regard it as a new form of user-based political participation in the digital sphere that contributes to an accessible and reasoned public discourse. Because OCI has received little scholarly attention thus far, this article conceptualizes low- and high-threshold types of OCI as different kinds of user responses to common disruptive online behavior such as hate speech or hostility toward the media. Against the background of participation research, we propose a theoretically grounded individual-level model that serves to explain OCI

Key Components and Best Practices for Environmental Impact Assessments

New and emerging activities pose risks to the conservation and sustainable development of ABNJ in the absence of prior assessment, and remain a significant gap under UNCLOS. Environmental impact assessments and strategic environmental assessments are widely accepted as valuable tools for incorporating environmental and social concerns into decision making processes with respect to specific projects or activities (EIAs) or policies, plans or programmes (SEAs). The development of a new international instrument to address the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction ("international Instrument") is an opportunity to incorporate best practices for EIAs and SEAs already found under a number of multilateral and regional agreements, and apply lessons learned from their application. Importantly, the new Instrument should also provide the mechanism for the assessment of cumulative impacts of activities and climate change

The Duplicity of Online Behavior

People commonly believe that any form of deception, no matter how innocuous it is and no matter whether the deceiving person intended it otherwise, is always morally wrong. In this paper, I will argue that deceiving in real-time is morally distinguishable from deceiving on-line because online actions aren’t as fine-grained as actions occurring in real-time. Our failure to detect the fine-grained characteristics of another avatar leads us to believe that that avatar intended to do a moral harm. Openly deceiving someone on Facebook or Twitter is not a way to build wholesome virtual friendships but to destroy them. This paper will show how the traditional understanding of the doing / allowing distinction fails to apply in cyberspace

Conceptualizing sexual and gender-based violence in European asylum reception centers

Background: Sexual and gender based violence (SGBV) is a major public health problem and a violation of human rights. Refugees, asylum seekers and migrants are exposed to a constant risk for both victimization and perpetration. Yet, in the context of European asylum reception centers (EARF) professionals are also considered to be at risk. Our study explores the conceptualization of SGBV that residents and professionals have in this specific context. Further, we intent to identify key socio-demographic characteristics that are associated with SGBV conceptualization for both groups. Methods: We developed a cross-sectional study using the Senperforto project database. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with residents (n=398) and professionals (n=202) at EARF. A principal component analysis (PCA) was conducted to variables related with knowledge on SGBV. Chi-square test and Fisher's exact test were applied to understand if significant statistical association exists with socio-demographic characteristics (significant level 0.5%). Results: The majority of residents were male (64.6%), aged from 19 to 29years (41.4%) and single (66.8%); for professionals the majority were women (56.2%), aged from 30 to 39years (42.3%) and married (56.8%). PCA for residents resulted in 14 dimensions of SGBV representing 83.56% of the total variance of the data, while for professionals it resulted in 17 dimensions that represent 86.92% of the total variance of the data. For both groups differences in SGBV conceptualization were found according to host country, sex, age and marital status. Specific for residents we found differences according to the time of arrival to Europe/host country and type of accommodation, while for professionals differences were found according to legal status and education skills. Conclusion: Residents and professionals described different conceptualization of SGBV, with specific types of SGBV not being recognized as a violent act. Primary preventive strategies in EARF should focus on reducing SGBV conceptualization discrepancies, taking into account socio-demographic characteristics

CLEAR D: Evaluation of a Primary School (KS2) Drugs Education Programme

CLEAR D is a partnership between police, health, and social services which delivers a drugs education programme to 10 year olds. This evaluation sought to test its effectiveness and suggest improvements that may help future operation and funding. The evaluation reports (based on data covering three years of pupil opinion, and on comparative data from a school elsewhere not involved with a similar programme) that it has a positive effect over time. However, transition to secondary school is a key danger point which requires a continuation of drugs eduation

Enforcing social norms: The morality of public shaming

Public shaming plays an important role in upholding valuable social norms. But, under what conditions, if any, is it morally justifiable? Our aim in this paper is systemically to investigate the morality of public shaming, so as to provide an answer to this neglected question. We develop an overarching framework for assessing the justifiability of this practice, which shows that, while shaming can sometimes be morally justifiable, it very often is not. In turn, our framework highlights several reasons to be concerned about the increasingly widespread phenomenon of online public shaming