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1.5.3 Comparisons between Academic and Legal Definitions
1. How do the word occurrences compare between academic and legal definitions
of the term "cyberbullying"?
2. How do the emergent themes compare between academic and legal definitions?
1.6 Dissertation Overview
Chapter 2 provides relevant literature on the topic of cyberbullying and traditional
bullying in general. Cyberbullying, as a subcategory of bullying, is contrasted to show a
need for studying it as a separate phenomenon. Chapter 3 outlines the research
methodology employed in this study. Chapter 4 and Five provide results and a separate
discussion of conclusions, implications, and suggestions for future research respectively.
1.7 Definition of Terms
* Affect. Observable manifestations of a subjectively experienced emotion
(Merriam-Webster's online dictionary, n.d.).
* Codes. Descriptive identifiers used by qualitative researchers to interpret text-
based data.
* Cyberbullying. "an aggressive, intentional act carried out by a group or
individual, using electronic forms of contact, repeatedly or over time against a victim who
cannot easily defend himself or herself'(Smith et al., 2008).
* Deductive coding. A method of coding where codes are pre-defined and applied
to a data set.
* Inductive / emergent coding. A method of coding where codes inductively
emerge from the data versus deductively following a framework with specific terms.16
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Winn, Matthew R. Analyzing Patterns Within Academic and Legal Definitions: a Qualitative Content Analysis of the Term "Cyberbullying", dissertation, August 2013; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc283860/m1/17/: accessed April 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .