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Fostering a Safe Online Culture with Cyberbullying Awareness and Prevention

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  • Kay Kyeong-Ju Seo

    (School of Education, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA)

  • Joseph Alfred Ciani

    (Dater High School, Cincinnati, OH, USA)

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The worldwide expansion of blogs, Twitter®, wikis, and virtual worlds is rapidly forming a new online culture where instant communication and virtual interaction are easily accessible at our fingertips. These powerful communication technologies are bringing global communities closer than we have ever imagined possible. While the technical affordances of these tools are holding promise to better support our diverse cultures and individual differences, the very same features can also bring in a major negative – cyberbullying. Internet aggression is more detrimental than traditional face-to-face bullying because it is often done anonymously behind computer screens. This makes human rights and equal participation more easily suppressed or violated in the cyberspace. This article focuses on raising awareness about the serious consequences of cyberbullying and suggesting innovative prevention actions, thus contributing to building a safe online culture.

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  • Kay Kyeong-Ju Seo & Joseph Alfred Ciani, 2014. "Fostering a Safe Online Culture with Cyberbullying Awareness and Prevention," International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development (IJICTHD), IGI Global, vol. 6(2), pages 56-66, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:igg:jicthd:v:6:y:2014:i:2:p:56-66
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