Cyberbullying: uma abordagem sobre os reflexos da violência nas redes sociais

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Daiana Calixto de
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Trabalho de conclusão de curso
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)
• dARK ID: ark:/83112/0013000026jgt
• Texto Completo: http://www.repositorio.ufc.br/handle/riufc/45150
• topic: Internet e Sociedade; Ciberespaço; Cibercultura

This study approaches Cyberbullying as a virtual crime perpetrated through social networks, aiming to identify what kinds of harmful content are the most used by the perpetrators when they choose their victims. Also identifying which social networks are more commonly used to practice cyberbulling and if through these, pernicious messages, photographs or videos are posted. Another aspect of the research is to verify if the majority of the students evaluated have any knowledge of virtual crime, particularly cyberbulling. Verify, as well, how the victims of this kind of crime felt at the time. In defining the perspectives of this work, a bibliographic and exploratory research were made, taking into account the theoretical framework and analyzing the problem through quantitative and qualitative aspects, after administering questionnaires and conducting interviews with students that are part of social networks aspiring to obtain results that reflect the reality of cyberbulling. Establishing, through the results of this research, that social networks are constantly used as venue to virtual bullying.