Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Cyber Abuse of Youth: A Systematic Review

Mishna, Faye; Cook, Charlene; Saini, Michael; Wu, Meng-Jia; MacFadden, Robert J.

doi:10.1177/1049731509351988

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“…However, the benefit from participating in psychoeducational Internet safety interventions can be limited to increasing user knowledge without being significantly effective in changing their risky online behaviours (Mishna, Cook et al 2010). Alternatively, new laws have emerged that consider cyberstalking to be a criminal offence.…”

Section: Intervention and Strategies Against Cyberstalkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyberstalking: Investigating formal intervention and the role of Corporate Social Responsibility

Al-Khateeb

Epiphaniou

Alhaboby

et al. 2017

Telematics and Informatics

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Abstract-Context: Online harassment and stalking have been identified with growing accordance as anti-social behaviours, potentially with extreme consequences including indirect or direct physical injury, emotional distress and/or financial loss. Objective: As part of our ongoing work to research and establish better understanding of cyberstalking, this study aims to investigate the role of Police, Mobile Operators, Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and owners/administrators of online platforms (e.g. websites, chatrooms) in terms of intervention in response to offences. We ask to what different authorities do people report incidents of cyberstalking? Do these authorities provide satisfactory responses or interventions? And how can this be improved? Furthermore, we discuss the role of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) to encourage the implementation of cyberstalking-aware schemes by service providers to support victims. In addition, CSR can be used as a means to measure the effects of externality factor in dictating the relationship between the impact of a given individuals' privacy loss and strategic decisions on investment to security controls in an organisational context. Method: A Mixed design method has been used in this study. Data collection took place by means of an online survey made available for three years to record both qualitative and quantitative data. Overall, 305 participants responded from which 274 identified themselves as victims of online harassment. Result: Our results suggest that most offences were communicated through private channels such as emails and/or mobile texts/calls. A significant number of victims did not report this to their service provider because they did not know they could. While Police were recognised as the first-point-of-contact in such cases, 41.6% of our sample did not contact the Police due to reasons such as fear of escalation, guilt/sympathy and self-blaming. Experiences from those who have reported offences to service providers demonstrate that no or very little support was offered. Overall, the majority of participants shared the view that third-party intervention is required on their behalf in order to mitigate risks associated with cyberstalking. An independent specialist antistalking organisation was a popular choice to act on their behalf followed by the Police and network providers. Conclusion: Incidents are taking place on channels owned and controlled by large, cross-border international companies providing mobile services, webmail and social networking. The lack of support offered to victims in many cases of cyberstalking can be identified as Corporate Social Irresponsibility (CSI). We anticipate that awareness should be raised as regarding service providers' liability and social responsibility towards adopting better strategies.

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Section: Intervention and Strategies Against Cyberstalkingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cyberstalking: Investigating formal intervention and the role of Corporate Social Responsibility

Al-Khateeb

Epiphaniou

Alhaboby

et al. 2017

Telematics and Informatics

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“…So, in order to help the implementation of the curriculum in the classroom, there has been an enormous increase in the number of prevention campaigns and awareness-raising interventions (See Insafe, 2014, for an overview of European packages). However, a recent systematic review shows that almost none of these packages has been empirically evaluated (Mishna et al, 2010), so that it remains unclear whether or not they have had any impact on the teenagers' awareness, attitude or behavior. Packages which have been evaluated do result in an increase in Internet safety knowledge but not in safety behavior (Mishna et al, 2010).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, a recent systematic review shows that almost none of these packages has been empirically evaluated (Mishna et al, 2010), so that it remains unclear whether or not they have had any impact on the teenagers' awareness, attitude or behavior. Packages which have been evaluated do result in an increase in Internet safety knowledge but not in safety behavior (Mishna et al, 2010). This is in line with the findings on media literacy education in general, where intervention studies systematically reveal that media literacy education increases the knowledge about the specific topic of the course, although attitudinal and behavioral changes usually fail to occur (Duran et al, 2008;Steinke et al, 2007).…”

Section: Education On Safety On Snssmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Although these researchers and governments agree that educating children about online safety is an important future challenge, the initiatives coupled with the organization of this type of education are not evidence-based (Mishna, Cook, Saini, Wu, & MacFadden, 2010). Hence the impact of these initiatives remains unclear and little is known about the conditions in which they are effective (Livingstone & Bulger, 2013).…”

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Developing educational materials about risks on social network sites: a design based research approach

Vanderhoven

Schellens

Vanderlinde

et al. 2015

Education Tech Research Dev

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Nearly all of today's Western teenagers have a profile on a social network site (SNS). As many risks have been reported, researchers and governments have emphasized the role of school education to teach teenagers how to deal safely with SNSs. However, little is known about the specific characteristics which would make interventions effective. Therefore, the overall objective of this research aims to propose a list of validated theoretical design principles for future development of educational materials about risks on SNSs. This research goal was pursued through a design-based research procedure. Thereby targeting teenagers of secondary education in 8 separate studies, the different steps of the design-based research procedure have iteratively been completed. Firstly, a problem analysis was executed through 3 explorative studies, including an observational study, a theoretical evaluation of existing materials and a survey study. Secondly, initial solutions were developed and evaluated in practice through 5 quasi-experimental intervention studies. Thirdly, we reflected upon all the previous results to produce design principles. Finally, we conclude with an analysis of the design-based research methodology.

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“…Schools may consider use of videos to enhance students' awareness of cyber bullying, especially in light of psycho educational Internet safety interventions that were found to increase Internet safety knowledge [54].…”

Section: Videos As An Educational Toolmentioning

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Identification and Treatment of Cyber Bullying

G¹,

Lipinski²,

Crothers

et al. 2015

Int J Sch Cog Psychol

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Within the last decade, cyber Bullying has become a popular topic discussed in the mainstream and educational literature bases, and rightfully so, since the effects of this form of peer harassment can be devastating for its victims. A number of articles and books have explored the definition, characteristics, and effects of electronic victimization, but less attention has been devoted exclusively to the aggressors themselves. The purpose of this article is to summarize what is known about cyber Bullies from the existing literature and identify interventions for bullying that have received empirical support and which may have potential for working with perpetrators of cyber Bullying.

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Interventions to Prevent and Reduce Cyber Abuse of Youth: A Systematic Review

Cited by 101 publications

References 28 publications

Cyberstalking: Investigating formal intervention and the role of Corporate Social Responsibility

Cyberstalking: Investigating formal intervention and the role of Corporate Social Responsibility

Developing educational materials about risks on social network sites: a design based research approach

Identification and Treatment of Cyber Bullying

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