What Are The Discursive Implications Of Cyberbullying

I am applying to York’s Education: Language, Culture and Teaching program to further investigate the role of social pathologies, structural-pedagogical policy frameworks, and the consequential affective and behavioural developments in reaction to (cyber)bullying. Potential supervisors whose current research areas of interest coincide with my intentions are: Professor Sue Winton and Professor Lisa Farley. Professor Sue Winton’s incentive towards policy-making expounds my interests in the discursive implications of anti-bullying discourse frameworks. Coincidental, Professor Winton`s article critically evaluating how policy constructs bullying in Ontario, is intimate to the premise of my research analyzing how Canadian post-secondary anti-bullying …show more content…
Current research trends applicate the (cyber)bully as the disruptive participant within social equity despite the mitigating factors which predicate his/her onset behaviour. A healthy child does not (cyber)bully. Pedagogical anti-bullying policy measures and frameworks are efficient in the attempted sterilization of (cyber)bullying cultures. Albeit, the effectiveness of such protocols and regulations dissipate within online realms; in such domains which may lack transparency, accountability, and recognizability. The efficacy of national education policy relies on its proponents to intuitively exercise on its behalf, that being, the efforts to manage (cyber)bullying have not substantiated a method of understanding the behaviour outside of its rhetorical contingencies. The (cyber)bully rationalized as a rhetorical mode of power has worked counterintuitive to his/her self-conceptualization as a functional metaphor: research trends obfuscate the mental health of the initiator, and its particular ramifications, that are negated in the pretense of upholding social codifications. Further intermediation focusing on initiator rehabilitation implementing the severity of academic repercussions, fails to recognize the child-bully dissociation and alienation from a child’s own intrinsic self-representation and self-determination. My aim is to articulate evidence-based research to pivot (cyber)bullying as