Cyberbullying Among School Children

Abstract

Modern information technologies are widely used in everyday communication among children and adults alike. In addition to the benefits that the use of modern media provides, one faces the possibilities of their abuse for the purpose of hurting others. Among students one encounters cyberbullying as a form of an inadequate use of modern media. Since the aforementioned phenomenon is of recent date and the manners of its manifestation become increasingly complex with the development of modern media one needs to understand more clearly the specificity and the manner of expressing this form of bullying. This paper aims to specify the meaning of the term cyberbullying, its manifestation forms, participants´ roles in cyberbullying, as well as the consequences of such behaviour in order to understand this phenomenon more clearly for the purpose of educating the school staff to be able to suppress it.