ABSTRACT
Cyberbullying and Online Harms identifies online harms and their impact on young people, from communities to campuses, exploring current and future interventions to reduce and prevent online harassment and aggression.
This important resource brings together eminent international researchers whose work shines a light on social issues such as bullying/cyberbullying, racism, homophobia, hate crime, and social exclusion. The text collates into one volume current knowledge and evidence of cyberbullying and its effect on young people, facilitating action to protect victims, challenge perpetrators and develop policies and practices to change cultures that are discriminatory and divisive. It also provides a space where those who have suffered online harms and who have often been silenced in the past may have a voice in telling their experiences and recounting interventions and policies that helped them to create safer spaces in which to live in their community, study in their educational institutions and socialise with their peer group.
This is essential reading for researchers, academics, undergraduates and postgraduates in sociology, psychology, criminology, media and communication studies, as well as practitioners and policymakers in psychology, education, sociology, criminology, psychiatry, counselling and psychotherapy, and anyone concerned with the issue of bullying, cyberbullying and online harms among young people in higher education.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part Theme 1|36 pages
The nature and impact of cyberbullying and online harassment
chapter 1|13 pages
Cyberbullying and online harassment
part Theme 2|64 pages
The social and cultural contexts which facilitate or challenge cyberbullying and online harassment
chapter 4|13 pages
Leadership as a double-edged sword
chapter 6|10 pages
Homophobic and transphobic online harassment
part Theme 3|28 pages
Legal perspectives
chapter 10|14 pages
Misogyny in the metaverse
chapter 11|12 pages
Stalking in universities
part Theme 4|45 pages
Coping
chapter 12|11 pages
Coping with cyberbullying (CB) and online harm
chapter 15|10 pages
Interventions to challenge cyberbullying and online harassment
part Theme 5|58 pages
Effective policies to counteract cyberbullying and online harassment