A New Problem Emerging With the Internet and Digital Media

Autor: Gülin Tuğçe Söyleyici, Adnan Kalkan
Rok vydání: 2022
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5426-8.ch025
Popis: Today, with the developing technology, online social media and social network have emerged as a cultural reality. With the increase in the use of digital media, in the modern age where the real world and the virtual world can be experienced in a synchronized way, digital media offers many opportunities. However, the increase in the time spent on the internet also brings with it undesirable situations such as cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is an act of cyber aggression aimed at harassing or humiliating. Cyberbullying is the behavior that disrupts the social relations of those chosen as victims and aims to arouse negative emotions. Understanding how cyberbullying occurs is very important for the development of strategies to prevent and respond to this attack. In this chapter, the concepts of cyber violence, cyber bullying, traditional bullying, and cyber victimization are explained.
Databáze: OpenAIRE