Cyberbullying

During the time span of the last couple of weeks, we covered a huge topic in Introduction to Publication, that is Cyberbullying.

With this topic came terms and definitions: Target, Offender, By-stander, Up-stander, escalate, and de-escalate.

• Target- A target to put it simply, is the victim, or the person being bullied.

•  Offender- The bully; a person with malicious intent, that wants to cause harm. (Note, that they are evil, evil little trolls....)

• By-stander- Is self- explanatory, it's a witness who does nothing.

They stand by and watch the victim and the bully.

• Up-stander- A witness who actually does do something.

They stand UP for the victim.

• Escalate- Not as in the 'moving stairs' in department stores (that is an escalator), but it means to increase, or intensify.

So, to escalate means to go up.

• De-escalate- means to go down, or decrease. 

With these terms we came up with ways a target, and up-stander can de-escalate the bullying.