Great, we put the embarrassing photo online!
Great, we put the embarrassing photo online! is a youth novel by Florian Buschendorff , which is also used as school reading for the intermediate level . The novel was published in October 2010 by Verlag an der Ruhr in the KLAR Pocket Books series .
theme
The novel deals with the problem of cyberbullying among school students. Cyberbullying incidents within a ninth grade are used to show the motives underlying cyberbullying and the reactions cyberbullying can provoke in victims.
content
Josi has only been in comprehensive school for three months, and she had to leave her old school. There she had her best friend Sabrina, who she rarely meets now, and they chat with each other occasionally. Josi is an outsider in her new class. They only have a former friendship with Antonia: They both went to grade 7 at the old school two years ago. Josi has poor self-esteem. She feels fat and unattractive. This makes it a target for bullying attacks, especially via new media (cell phone, internet). Many students in the class contribute to this in different ways and independently of one another. Ultimately, the attacks escalate: cyberbullying Josi is becoming a popular pastime for students across the school.
The plot of the novel begins at night. Josi wakes up from a nightmare in which she processes negative experiences from school. She receives a threatening phone call on her cell phone. She has to leave this on at night because her mother, who is on a long business trip, attaches importance to it. Since Josi suspects that the threats come from class, she fakes her father's illness and stays at home for a few days.
In the meantime, at Antonia's birthday party, at which almost the whole class is present, a video is made in which Jessica caricatures Josi, who is not present, with a "duck dance". The video is posted on the Internet and a link is sent to Josi. Later, Josi's name was also used to create profiles on social networks on which she was presented as obscene. She receives offensive SMS and messages in her own profile.
Antonia, who is popular in the class, is increasingly on the side of Josi. Likewise Till, who is in love with Antonia. Till and Antonia also receive emails that are supposed to play them off against each other.
Mr. Steiner, the math and class teacher, tries to do something about the bullying in his class, but he is neither familiar with the new media nor can he correctly assess the social conflicts that arise as a result in the class. Ultimately, due to these weaknesses, he is completely helpless and incapable of acting and is ridiculed by the students in this regard.
The attacks against Josi escalate when she is lured into a trap by strangers. Under the pretext of a meeting with Antonia and Till, she is supposed to come to an empty classroom in the morning. When the door was opened, she was caught by a bucket of old table water placed over the door. The incident is filmed from outside and posted on the Internet.
Josi then runs to the train station, determined to throw himself in front of an arriving train . An attentive train employee stops them and calls the police.
Josi confides her whole ordeal to the policeman Mr. Schneider. After discussions with the parents and also with Antonia and Till, Mr. Schneider takes on the matter and visits the class. In an impressive lecture, he explains the gravity of their actions to the students and finally gets individual perpetrators to surrender to avoid criminal charges . This also creates the basis for the perpetrators to gain insight into their guilt.
Narrative
The novel is told from two perspectives: on the one hand from Josi's perspective, and on the other from Till's. The change of perspective takes place chapter by chapter. Through the personal perspective of both main characters, the reader is brought closer to both the inner life of the victim (Josi) and an outsider (Till).
Cliffhangers are often used at the end of chapters as a means of generating tension . The novel also has elements of the detective novel: the perpetrators (Josi's attackers) initially remain unknown; little by little, suspects are introduced; at the end the act is cleared up.
background
The author Florian Buschendorff says about the creation of the book: "The story and the characters are fictitious, but of course it is made up of many fragments of reality."
expenditure
- Florian Buschendorff: Great, we're putting the embarrassing photo online . Verlag an der Ruhr, Mülheim / Ruhr 2010, ISBN 978-3-8346-0730-0
literature
- Literature file for "Geil, we put the embarrassing photo online" . Verlag an der Ruhr, Mülheim / Ruhr 2010, ISBN 978-3-8346-0730-0 .
Web links
- Great, we put the embarrassing photo online! on Verlagruhr.de
- Cyberbullying is everywhere on Voice.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.streiflichter.com/internet-datenschutz-und-cybermobbing-wichtiges-thema.html
- ↑ http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/archiv/schueler-der-clay-oberschule-rechen-ueber-die-gefahren-im-internet---ein-lehrer-hat-sogar-ein-buch-ueber - cyberbullying - written - i-tell-my-parents-not-at-all-, 10810590,10785564.html
- ↑ http://www.sicherheit-macht-schule.de/Magazin/Magazin_05/1591_Expertenkommentar.htm
- ↑ http://www.maerkischeallgemeine.de/cms/beitrag/12049785/492531/Von-der-Verspottung-bis-hin-zu-physischen-Ueberzüge.htm ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
