Monday 5 March 2012

Panorama:Hunting the internet bullies


This panorama documentary was a documentary based on how cyber bullying is having an impact not only on children and teens but also adults and celebrities.However the documentary also explored as to how the cyber bullies feel about what they do and if they can justify themselves as to what they do when they bully other people.

Use of different sources where used to provide information  such as celebrity cher lloyd who informs the viewers as to how adding people she didn't know on twitter had a bad impact on her since they started saying negative things that resulted in being cyber bullying.Therefore this not only made the viewers more aware of cyber bullying but also other celebrities who may also be in the same situation.

The documentary also shows as to how you can solve the issue of cyber bullying when you are a victim and outcomes of victims who where unaware as to how they could solve this problem where shown as the documentary showed some people who commited suicide due to cyber bullying.

The documentary also shows the parents of the people who were cyber bullied so they could give information as to how their children where affected by cyber bullying and in some cases went on to commit suicide.Teens are also shown to give information on what they know about this issue and a different enviroment is used during this interview as they are shown at a bowling alley in which they show them bowling while discussing about the issue therefore making the doumentary more interesting.

The director of policy within facebook is also shown answering questions asked by students as to how you can report someone when being cyber bullied therefore giving his expert advice and information as to how people can do this and how the facebook team deals with a situation like this.

The documentary also focuses on the websites that people have been victims of cyber bullying one of them being little gossip,facebook and twitter.The documentary also uses the head of a college that is used as a source of information as to how many people are impacted by social networking websites such as little gossip.

The documentary also has the original finder of little gossip to show as to what he thinks about this social networking website that has had a bad impact on others.Other victims are also shown as they give their response to cyber bullying online and the bullies are shown as panorama confronts them to see what they think about what they do and to see what has been done by the law to prevent them from cyber bullying others.

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