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Bullying in Context: Stories of Bullying on an Internet Discussion Board
Author(s) -
Osvaldsson Karin
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2011.00383.x
Subject(s) - the internet , presentation (obstetrics) , context (archaeology) , psychology , construct (python library) , mental health , poison control , relation (database) , suicide prevention , social psychology , medicine , world wide web , computer science , psychiatry , paleontology , environmental health , database , biology , radiology , programming language
The paper examines how young people describe experiences of bullying when participating in an Internet community dedicated to young people experiencing mental health problems. The micro‐analytic focus demonstrates how young people construct their identities in relation to their telling about their experiences of being victims of bullying, reporting on two distinct ways that they framed their postings. The posters either disclosed their experiences about bullying in relation to a wider self‐presentation of experiences of bullying (bullying being part of their past and a partial reason for their problems), or more straightforwardly asked for help and advice from other participants to find ways of dealing with ongoing bullying. Finally, the paper demonstrates how contributors orient to the Internet community, and calls for more research based on unsolicited naturalistic data for such issues as bullying.