Understanding the Overlap Between Cyberbullying and Cyberhate Perpetration: Moderating Effects of Toxic Online Disinhibition
In this scholarly article, we hear about the scholars Sebastian Wachs, Michelle Wright, and Alexander Vazsonyi and how they research the ways that the toxic online disinhibition can be related back to two main topics: Cyberbullying – “the intentional and repeated infliction of harm via information and communication technologies against a helpless victim” (Smith 2008) and Cyberhate – “…denigration through such technologies by harassment, exclusion, and advocacy of violence against specific social groups on the basis of assigned or selected characteristics such as sexual orientation, etc…”. In the study they conducted, they looked at how ODE and the two discussed topics correlate to one another in people ages 12 – 17 and how they might evolve into cyberbullies as they age. Using this article will help me look at expert data on the basis of how a person might begin the stages of starting online drama and how the correlation between toxic OD and discussed terms determine the way people interact argumentatively online.
Arguing on the Internet: UW Researchers Studying how to Make Online Arguments Productive
This article talks about a group of people from the University of Washington who did a study regarding people and their preferred way of have an argument online. They then took these ways and, though experiments, came up with new ways in which they could make these arguments more productive in coming to a solution or resolution easier. This article will help me by being able to be a reference in ways that the nature of the situation I am going to be talking about could have been done in a more reasonable way instead of the way it did. Additionally, it will show the ways we have learned from people from different backgrounds and how their experiences can be similar to our own personal ones.
Comment Culture Must Be Stopped
This article from the “The Medium” talks about the ways in which we as a society are constantly fueled by different platforms giving us the option to comment on one another’s thoughts or ideas (posts) and what that can do to us as a society. Additionally, the article mentions how different companies that use comments (such as Facebook, instagram, twitter, etc. ) will use pieces like the comments section for profit. At the end, it explains how we can avoid the use of comment culture. The entirety of the article can relate directly back to my original thought by the fact of how my family used the comments section on a Facebook post to have a full argument, so the article will give me more information as well as backup evidence to how they fell into the idea of comment culture in todays society.
