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Bullying On Teen Television: Patterns Across Portrayals And Fan Forum Posts, Kimberly R. Walsh
Bullying On Teen Television: Patterns Across Portrayals And Fan Forum Posts, Kimberly R. Walsh
Masters Theses 1911 - February 2014
The primary goal of this thesis was to provide a snapshot of the portrayal of bullying on teen television. Drawing from contextual factors studied in the National Television Violence Study (Smith et al., 1998), a content analysis of 82 episodes (representing 10 series) and 355 acts of bullying was conducted to examine portrayals of physical, verbal, indirect, and cyber bullying in terms of bully and victim social status, motivations, humor, punishments/rewards, character support for bullies, harm shown to victims, interventions by third parties, and anti-bullying episode themes.
The analysis revealed significant differences across bullying types for all variables except third …