#Cyberbullying in the Digital Age: Exploring People's Opinions with Text Mining
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This study investigated people's perspectives regarding cyberbullying through the use of text mining tweets. English-language tweets were collected and analyzed in RStudio. Our analysis demonstrated three major themes: (a) the major actions that needed to be taken into consideration (e.g. guiding parents and teachers to cyberbullying prevention, funding schools to fight cyberbullying), (b) certain events that were important to people (e.g. the Michigan cyberbullying law), and (c) people's major concerns in this regard (e.g. the mental health issues among students). Parents and teachers seem to have an important role in educating, informing, warning, preventing, and protecting against cyberbullying behaviors. A strong correlation was found among girl, photo, and shared, which may represent that girls are more likely to experience appearance-related cyberbullying than boys.
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