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Fighting Fire With Fire: The Use Of A Multimedia Webquest In Increasing Middle-School Students’ Understandings Of Cyberbullying, Elizabeth Ann Brewer
Fighting Fire With Fire: The Use Of A Multimedia Webquest In Increasing Middle-School Students’ Understandings Of Cyberbullying, Elizabeth Ann Brewer
LMU/LLS Theses and Dissertations
Cyberbullying, the use of personal and information and communication technologies to harass or intimidate others, is an increasingly pervasive problem in schools. This mixed- methods study explored the effectiveness of a multimedia WebQuest in teaching 156 middle-school students about the dangers of cyberbullying and examined the role of gender in learning about cyber-harassment. Set within a constructivist framework, the study provides an innovative, technological intervention for cyberbullying education for use with adolescents and is instrumental in reshaping public policy surrounding cyberbullying education and prevention. The dissertation study occurred in two phases. Phase I, WebQuest Construction, was qualitative in nature and …