Detecting the Presence of Cyberbullying Using Computer Software

Bayzick, Cyberbullying 29Appendix A – Cyberbullying CodebookThis is the information our undergraduate assistants were given to learn to code chattranscripts for cyberbullying. They had the opportunity to ask questions at any time ofmyself or Professors Kontostathis and Edwards for clarification. The reference to mySummer Fellows paper encompasses the information in sections III and IV of this paper.Directions for Hand Coders:Thank you so much for helping us out!!So the plan:My honors project is on the detection of cyberbullying in online chat conversations. My goalis to build a program – BullyTracer – that will detect the presence of cyberbullying based ona set of rules I need to develop. To decide what should and should not constitutecyberbullying (and then train the computer to recognize it), I need “correct answers” – that’swhere you come in. I need others’ opinions on what should and should not constitutecyberbullying to develop the program, and I also need truth sets to determine if thecomputer is doing what it should be.To begin, please read through my Summer Fellows paper – the file labeledBayzickBullyTracerSFFinal.docx. The whole thing will be good background information, butthe only section that is necessary is section IV – Types of Cyberbullying. With research, Idiscovered and defined nine categories that cyberbullying conversation can fall into. Becomefamiliar with these categories, but realize there is also much ambiguity between them, aswell as between cyberbullying and innocent conversations. The first few sections of my papergive background information on cyberbullying itself, and the last few sections describe myplan for my honors project. If you have any suggestions or comments for my research, pleaselet me know!So, as for the actual coding,1. Locate the Excel spreadsheet entitled Human Data Sheet 1.xlsx. Fill in your name atthe top. Note: you should have a new copy of the data sheet to fill in for each newpacket of files you are working on (the packets will contain 100 – 200 files to beanalyzed). When you save your edited copy of the file, please label it as “HumanData Sheet [your last name] packet [packet number].xlsx”2. In each packet, there are html files that contain windows of 10 chat lines that areexcerpts from longer chat conversations. All data was crawled (saved by anautomated computer program) from MySpace thread-style conversations, in which