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The typologhy of digital bullying of the children and the youth within the online space
The typologhy of digital bullying of the children and the youth within the online space

Author(s): Simona Mičová
Subject(s): Media studies, Social psychology and group interaction, Studies in violence and power, Social Informatics
Published by: Univerzita sv. Cyrila a Metoda v Trnave, Fakulta masmediálnej komunikácie
Keywords: Actors of digital bullying; Digital bullying; Digital media; Digital space; Typology of digital bullying;

Summary/Abstract: The people of social media tend to be more proactive. They stand up into opposition, even in the cases when they wouldn´t act like that in real life situations. An aggression, a blackmailing, an encroaching of personal data and also just general mockery of people on social media. The same behaviour models are more commonly spread also within the children and the youth. The formation of an opinions, an attitudes and the values of today´s children are affected by virtual world, digital games, unlimited variations of sounds, pictures, graphics and by the artificial intelligence. Digital media and means of mass media communication like tablets, computers, social sites, web pages or blogs are becoming influential movers in processes of their education, information gaining and spending of free time. Although excess usage of digital technologies and too big, everyday consumption of these, also negatively and violently orientated contents without any appropriate control, has more often negative impressions. They behave aggressively, excessively, oftentimes attacking. For overstepping of abstract rules and moral borders the internet users aren´t endangered by sanctions and anonymity, which internet serves them, protects them against punishments. These and many other cases of online attacks committed mainly on the children and the youth or abuse, belongs to the spheres of quite young phenomenon named digital bullying. For creation of effective concepts for limiting and solving of arising cases of this type of violence on the children and the youth, it is needed to know this phenomenon.

  • Issue Year: 5/2017
  • Issue No: 1/1
  • Page Range: 143-155
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: English
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