Cyberbullying

• Autor(a) principal: Serrão, Gonçalo Nuno Correia Zambujo
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/91284
• topic: Agressões Virtuais; Cyberbullying; Primeira Resposta; Virtual Aggressions; First Response; Direito

Cyberbullying is a current phenomenon that is affecting children and young people, leading to their emotional, social and physical destruction. The growth of new technologies, combined with digital connectivity and information sharing, has developed a new space for interaction and socialization, the cyberspace, which transposes real life into a virtual world. The rise of social practices in cyberspace has also led to the rise of phenomenons such as cyberbullying. The features of cyberspace turns the virtual aggressions of cyberbullying difficult to face and their consequences should be devastating to the victims, longer the period they keep online. In this context comes the objective of this investigation: identify and characterize the first response to the cyberbullying victims, seeking how to face it immediately in this cases, and keep the greatest protection to the victim and minimize the aggression effects. The methodology started by a deductive reasoning, which allowed, through investigations, theoretical approaches and reflections on the problem, to find a truth. For one, through a data analysis by qualitative observation of the obtained information, it was possible to develop the conclusions. Thus, it was verified that is importance a bigger control of the cyberspace by the stakeholders and a immediate intervention to provide protection and support to victims, essentially based on the commitment and cooperation between those who are responsible and the development of a cyberpolice capability.