Cyberbullying, harassment using Information and Communication Technologies

Abstract

There is a type of harassment among youngsters called ciberbullying. It consists on using information and communication technology (ICT) specifically the e-mail, social networks and others with the purpose of harassing, bothering and denigrating an individual or a group of people. This research analyzes the human aggressiveness and the bullying as a type of aggression and so to comprehend the ciberbullying. The main objective of the investigation was to explore how the personal variables manifest the ciberbullying experience, and the attitude towards the violence that live the students involved in the dynamic associated to this type of social processes.

The results of the study revealed the existence of ciberbullying in secondary education students (1º to 4º half) between 13 and 17 years of age in the Futrono commune. From the total sample (70 participants), 10% was identified as aggressor, 11.4% as victim, and 78.2% as beholder of this problem.

The methodology used for this research was the study of multiple cases. It applied a survey as an instrument to gather the information. Within the main findings, the greatest is the students' constant use of the computer and cellphone which range of daily usage overpasses the three hours per day. Besides, it detected Facebook as the most popular social network among them.

Conocimiento Educactivo, Vol. 2, 2015: 27-40