Problem Statement (What Now? / Why Now?)

The goal of our social action project is to target the main reason behind cyber bullying. We want to find out what drives people to cyber bully others, approximately how many people on campus have been victims of cyber bullying or have cyber bullied others before, and the most common ways cyber bullying is used. Our plan is to create three polls, all in which will contain multiple choice questions about cyber bullying. These questions will ask things such as "Have you ever been cyber bullied?", "Has anyone ever cyber bullied you?", "What drove you to cyber bully another person?", "In what way did you cyber bully that person", "How has someone else cyber bullied you?". Students on campus will know about these polls through an email that we will send out and flyers we will post in various locations around the campus. After we collect all the data from the polls, we will create a huge poster board of the data and display it somewhere on campus. Although we know that not every student at John Carroll University will participate in this survey, we hope that we will collect a lot of good and telling information from those that do. Cyber bullying is a serious issue and students need to be aware of just how serious it is and how relevant it is in the social world. Our goal is that once students see how many people are effected by this issue and victims realize they are not alone in the matter, then students will ban together to put an end to it.