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The phenomenon of cyberbullying in society

Today, people’s daily interactions are characterized by new facets, a wide range of virtual worlds and a significant expansion of space. While the skills of e-mail, instant messaging, and chatting for adults have matured and are now being transferred t…

Today, people’s daily interactions are characterized by new facets, a wide range of virtual worlds and a significant expansion of space. While the skills of e-mail, instant messaging, and chatting for adults have matured and are now being transferred to a virtual format, today’s children and adolescents are learning these skills from an early age. That is, they perceive the relationship in real life and in the virtual world at the same time. While this may pave the way for education and the development of the arts, it can be detrimental to a person’s personal safety and health, rights and freedoms.

Adolescents go through the process of socialization in a virtual environment through acquaintance with others, playing different social roles, mastering the norms. With the spread of digitalization, information and communication technologies, all communication in everyday social life is “repeated” on virtual platforms, sometimes amplified by virtual communication, sometimes disrupted, but in general, everyday communication is filled with new features. The advent of the Internet has become a resource for many people, opened up additional social opportunities, and “virtual communication” has gradually become commonplace. Anonymity on the Internet has bypassed the opposition and repulsion of others in the afterlife, allowing young people to take on different social roles and experiment with themselves. According to 2005 dataIn Russia, a quarter of teens falsified information about their gender, age, ethnicity, and political views, and more than half had multiple e-mails and nicknames.

According to other data, 39% of teenagers tried to joke with someone on the Internet or met a stranger while texting. On the one hand, it may be an interesting experiment for young people who want to know more about themselves and look at their inner world from the outside. However, on the other hand, the “virtual relationship” we are talking about has created new threats and problems in society. For example, being anonymous online can lead a teenager to meet a “role-playing” person on the Internet or in everyday life, leading to various crimes and offenses. There are many cases of theft of personal data of a foreigner under a pseudonym, psychological and financial pressure and extortion in order to carry out his criminal intent.

At the crossroads of these complex issues, many countries and the international community face the task of systematizing and making this communication as useful to society as possible, ensuring the safety of users, the formation of cyber ethics in the widespread use of the Internet and virtual communications. Despite the prevalence of contradictions between the “real” and “virtual” world , the exact boundary between these two phenomena is not clear. R. Mahaffy, a criminologist at the Mississippi Department of Justice’s Department of Cybercrime, believes that in the 21st century, the Internet is constantly flooded with interesting events, threats and criminals, where bullets are artificial but can injure people.

The United Nations pays great attention to the issue of cyberbullying and takes appropriate measures at the international level. According to UNICEF, cyberbullying is the intimidation or harassment of people through the use of digital technologies. It can also be found on social networks, various messaging apps, gaming platforms, and mobile phones. The purpose of such repeated actions is to intimidate, anger, or humiliate the persecutor in front of another country. As an example:

– spreading false information on social networks or publishing obscene or personal photos of someone;

– sending threatening messages that threaten someone’s identity through messaging platforms;

– Introduce yourself on someone’s social network and write obscene letters on his behalf.

In real life, harassment and cyber-attacks can often go hand in hand. But the digital evidence of online harassment is clear. This factor can be useful for detecting cyberbullying or stopping it in a timely manner .

Cyberbullying is characterized by the rapid spread of aggressive forms of intimidation in the near and far abroad, using the capabilities of the Internet. In 1993, the Norwegian psychologist D. Olveus gave a generally accepted definition of pressure between children and adolescents: “Bullying is a deliberately systematic, repetitive, aggressive behavior that results from inequality of power and power. This is one of the most debated topics in the context of children’s groups.” .

The proportion of adults in the United States who were harassed on the Internet as of January 2020.

Children who are currently being bullied by adults who cannot control the situation are likely to be bullied and ridiculed in addition to the school, its yard, driveway, public transportation, and yard. The Internet space and its various platforms have appeared. Aggressive pressure on a person has acquired a new character with the addition of modern technology. This type of harassment, called cyberbullying, has caused concern among children, parents and professionals in Europe and the United States. The peculiarity of information processes on the Internet is that nothing is lost from it, it can be restored even on the day of loss. In the virtual spaceUncertainty motivates many people to make different decisions.

The most vulnerable group directly affected by cyberbullying are teenagers. The popularity of social networks is growing, where the user opens a personal profile and begins to publish various information. Therefore, adolescents and adults who are now using the network may not be prepared for the risks, such as breaches of personal boundaries, abuse of available information, and lack of confidentiality. More than 72% of teenagers have a personal profile on social networks. Children post their last name, age, school, online, and one-third have a profile that reveals information to others. Abroad, 62% of children share their personal photos with others. According to the survey, 77% of children aged 6-9 seek help from their parents when there is a negative situation on the Internet, and 54% of children aged 15-17 want to find a solution on their own.

The fight against cyberbullying in the European Union provides for the prevention of criminal or civil liability. New Zealand was the first country to face imprisonment for online harassment. In the United States, legislation penalizing cyberbullying has been introduced in a number of states. According to the Center for Cyberbullying Research, 50 out of 44 states have criminal liability for online harassment. In Germany, certain aspects of cyberbullying are punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a civil offense. South Korea and France are working to strengthen aggression against Internet platforms. In the legal practice of Kazakhstan, cyberbullying exists as a social phenomenon, but a separate article of the Criminal Code is not intended for it.

The share of online platforms that have been cyberbullying in the US since January 2021

According to the monitoring of the Center for Security 2.0 of the Russian Peace Foundation, the number of children and adolescents online has increased. In the first half of 2021, the center registered 1,839 cases of cyberbullying of minors, which is 100% more than last year.

In a 2017 study, 1 in 5 Australians reported being socially isolated, at risk or experiencing online violence. 55% of young people sought help from their parents and 28% from friends after online pressure; 38% blocked their online accounts; 12% reported the incident on their websites.

Seventeen percent of Canadian Internet users between the ages of 15 and 29 (or 1 in 5) said they had been a victim of cyberbullying in the past five years. In a random survey, more than 14% admitted to cyber bullying, and text messages and e-mail rumors were the most common. Girls (40.6%) were more likely to be victims of cyberattacks than boys (28.8%) because girls spent more time on social media and boys were more likely to play video games. During the period of isolation, hatred, intolerance and aggression between adolescents and children increased.

In general, the following statistics reflect the global concern about cyberbullying in individual countries. Concerns about cyberbullying are high in Sweden, where 91% of respondents reported cyberbullying. According to Ipsos, 75% of respondents worldwide have witnessed cyberbullying.

General information about cyberbullying in some countries of the world as of April 2018

Yes, bullying is not a new phenomenon today. In an age when the Internet is still in its infancy, human beings are ridiculed, marginalized, restricted and oppressed, ridiculed for their color, race and language, religion and traditions, publicly embarrassed, nicknamed and titled. something obvious. At the same time, when leaving the world like this, Kazakhs have a special place for ancient jokes and friendly jokes. Only when it became aggressive and repetitive did it rise to the level of a certain problem. Today, these phenomena have become a term of personal pressure, insult, intimidation, intimidation, which has taken on a new character due to the spread of information technology, a separate field of research under the name “cyberbullying”. It is a problem that today covers the age range from children to adults,

Source: Kazakhtan 2050

Last modified: September 16, 2021