Cyberbullying

Cyberbullying - coping with negative and enhancing positive uses of new technologies, in relationships in educational settings (COST Action IS0801)

 

Customers and citizens have often used ICTs in very creative, sometimes unanticipated, ways at home, at work and in public places. The relationship between people and ICTs have born some very creative and useful products – social networks for social support for example. On the other side it is the base of a new kind of bullying, often called cyberbullying.

 

Cyberbullying refers to bullying and harassment of others by means of new electronic technologies, primarily mobile phones and the internet. There has been much research and action on traditional forms of bullying in schools, with some success, but cyberbullying has arisen and increased in the last few years. Researchers, pupils, parents, teachers, unions, and local, regional and national authorities, are all in various ways starting to grapple with the issues involved in cyberbullying, in consultation with mobile phone companies and internet service providers.

 

COST Action IS0801 “Cyberbullying: coping with negative and enhancing positive uses of new technologies, in relationships in educational settings” aims at sharing expertise on cyberbullying in educational settings. The following set of papers present some of the most recent researches on cyberbullying conducted by members of COST IS0801.

 

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