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CYBERBULLYING AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES AN EDUCATIONAL PROJECT FOR EMOTIONAL ORIENTATION AND CYBERBULLYING PREVENTION
2019
Cyberbullying as a new form of bullying demands new coping strategies. As a result of new technology there has been a constant growth in the spread of harmful online behavior. The instant project “Cyberbullying and new technology”, which started from cooperation between school and university, was planned for pupils in the third year at “Leonardo Da Vinci” secondary school in Palermo. The project was started and carried out within the school setting with a focus on students, parents and teachers. Objectives: the main aim was to identify useful actions and precautions to help face cyberbullying (on smartphone and mobile applications) using technology to create a campaign of peer to peer sensi…
Cyberbullismo e nuove tecnologie
2019
Il presente volume raccoglie i lavori presentati durante il XII congresso di SIPCO, “Le comunità Imperfette”, tenutosi a Palermo dal 7 al 9 giugno. I lavori che compongono questo volume raccontano la vita delle comunità e come la psicologia di comunità possa favorire la costruzione del bene comune e una qualità di vita degna di essere vissuta. Agli stimolanti e densi contributi di Gioacchino Lavanco e di Piero Amerio, seguono le ricche sessioni dedicate alla cittadinanza, l’engagement e l’apprendimento attivo, al disagio e alla marginalità, alla promozione della salute, alle minoranze e all’integrazione sociale, ai metodi e agli strumenti per la ricerca e l’intervento e, infine, un focus su…
Cyberbullying a modern form of bullying: Let's talk about this health and social problem
2018
Abstract Cyberbullying or electronic aggression has already been designated as a serious public health threat. Cyberbullying should also be considered as a cause for new onset psychological symptoms, somatic symptoms of unclear etiology or a drop in academic performance. Pediatricians should be trained to play a major role in caring for and supporting the social and developmental well-being of children.
Cyberbullying & Company. From Myths to Empirical Evidence
2015
Cyberbullying and other online risks have been given lately growing attention by popular media, policy makers, academics, parents and educators. Beyond any deterministic views of technology and its impact on individuals (particularly children) as well as beyond the mythological views and moral panic that often dominate public discourses about children and digital technologies, this chapter argues for a more evidence-based and multidimensional/contextual approach that locates cyberbullying within the complex network of children’s online activities, socio-demographic variables, parental, peer’s and teachers’ mediation, ICT country-specific regulation, educational systems, etc. Drawing from th…
Cyberbullying and Empathy in the Age of Hyperconnection: An Interdisciplinary Approach
2020
Considering cyberbullying as a challenging frontier of analysis in the social sciences, we find ourselves today with the duty to analyze it within a much broader social context. Indeed, we must take into account the logic of exclusion, as a fact. Today, in the logic of how the Internet works, a thin line separates the victim from the perpetrator; this is also due to the Internet we know today, made up of a mass and a headless power. Trying to amplify this dichotomy, we can say that today we live in the era of the so-called “ban-opticon” (or the logic of prohibition). This logic ranges from simply removing Facebook friends from the list, to excluding sources of knowledge. This article has fo…