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Fostering a Safe Online Culture with Cyberbullying Awareness and Prevention

Fostering a Safe Online Culture with Cyberbullying Awareness and Prevention

Kay Kyeong-Ju Seo, Joseph Alfred Ciani
Copyright: © 2017 |Pages: 13
ISBN13: 9781522509882|ISBN10: 1522509887|EISBN13: 9781522509899
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0988-2.ch003
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Seo, Kay Kyeong-Ju, and Joseph Alfred Ciani. "Fostering a Safe Online Culture with Cyberbullying Awareness and Prevention." Violence and Society: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, IGI Global, 2017, pp. 46-58. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0988-2.ch003

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Seo, K. K. & Ciani, J. A. (2017). Fostering a Safe Online Culture with Cyberbullying Awareness and Prevention. In I. Management Association (Ed.), Violence and Society: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice (pp. 46-58). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0988-2.ch003

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Seo, Kay Kyeong-Ju, and Joseph Alfred Ciani. "Fostering a Safe Online Culture with Cyberbullying Awareness and Prevention." In Violence and Society: Breakthroughs in Research and Practice, edited by Information Resources Management Association, 46-58. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2017. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0988-2.ch003

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Abstract

The worldwide expansion of blogs, Twitter®, wikis, and virtual worlds is rapidly forming a new online culture where instant communication and virtual interaction are easily accessible at our fingertips. These powerful communication technologies are bringing global communities closer than we have ever imagined possible. While the technical affordances of these tools are holding promise to better support our diverse cultures and individual differences, the very same features can also bring in a major negative – cyberbullying. Internet aggression is more detrimental than traditional face-to-face bullying because it is often done anonymously behind computer screens. This makes human rights and equal participation more easily suppressed or violated in the cyberspace. This article focuses on raising awareness about the serious consequences of cyberbullying and suggesting innovative prevention actions, thus contributing to building a safe online culture.

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