Research Log #7 - Solutionary Project 2020

Date: 3/20/20
Name: Konnor Harada
Essential Question: How do cyberbullying and normal bullying compare?

Three Points to Prove: #1: Both parties suffer holding jobs.

#2: Someone being cyberbullied is most likely bullied face-to-face.
#3:When cyberbullied, the victim can seek revenge.

Point that this Source Proves: #1

Excerpts (These should provide insight into the Point to Prove):

“Another is that victims and bully-victims (those who both are bullied and in turn bully others)
are not doing that well economically. They find it more difficult to hold down jobs by 26 years
of age.”

“90 percent of those who are cyberbullied are also bullied face-to-face.” “because a bully wants
to see the reaction; it’s about power differential.”

“But there’s one important difference with cyberbullying in that it actually allows victims to get
revenge.”

Analysis (How does this source support the Point to Prove?):

Dieter Wolke is professor at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom. He is the
principal investigator of precursors and consequences of peer bullying. During his interview he
talks about a study that he did with researchers at Duke University that one effect of bullying is
that both the victim and the bully have a harder time finding and holding on to jobs as an adult.
Wolke says, “They often leave jobs because they don’t trust, or they feel easily criticized; they
leave jobs before they’ve found another job, and they show poorer saving behavior.”
Wolke makes the analogy that if you in LA, you wouldn’t start bullying someone in
China. Wolfe says, “because a bully wants to see the reaction; it’s about power differential.” The
bully will usually target someone who is in the same school or class as the victim. The bully will
also want people to see it and have a reaction, otherwise to the bullying it may feel like it didn’t
have a purpose.
When someone is cyberbullied, they can’t physically fight back or they can’t speak up for
themselves, but what they can do is seek revenge and cyberbully someone else. Wolke says, “But
there’s one important difference with cyberbullying in that it actually allows victims to get
revenge.” Similar to physical bullying, one reason why teens will choose to bully someone else
is because they have low self-esteem from being bullied themselves, this is dangerous because if
the victim does decide to bully the cycle repeats.

Work Cited (correct MLA format):

Stepp, Gina “Bullying: What Parents Need to Know” vision. vision. September 2014. Web 20
March 2020. https://www.vision.org/dieter-wolke-interview-what-parents-need-
to-know- about-bullying-1438

This is a reputable and reliable article because the person being interviewed is a professor at the
University of Warwick, UK and has spent the last 25 years studying mental disorders.