What Counts?: A Qualitative Study of Adolescents’ Lived Experience With Online Victimization and Cyberbullying

Ranney, Megan L.; Pittman, Sarah K.; Riese, Alison; Koehler, Christopher; Ybarra, Michele L.; Cunningham, Rebecca M.; Spirito, Anthony; Rosen, Rochelle K.

doi:10.1016/j.acap.2019.11.001

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“…In our sample, youth were more likely to "gossip" or "vent" about their conflicts on social media, than they were use social media to initiate an argument with someone they were in direct contact with. This finding supports recent literature based on qualitative interviews with teens [2,21], suggesting that the role of online media in adolescent conflict may be more nuanced than previously suspected.…”

Section: Expressions Of Conflict In Adolescents' Online Messagessupporting

confidence: 89%

Insights into Adolescent Online Conflict through Qualitative Analysis of Online Messages

Ranney

Lehrbach²,

Scott³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Given adolescents' widespread use of online messaging and social media, as well as the prevalence of cyberbullying, analyzing adolescents' online messagebased communication topics and patterns is relevant to public health. To better describe conflict in adolescent online communication, this paper analyzes patterns of conflict in a dataset of adolescent online messages. We describe a qualitative methodology for analyzing these complex data, to expand understanding of adolescents' online conversations, and to identify how best to categorize conflict within online media datasets. In this study, 14,239 messages from 20 adolescents in the Northeast United States (of which 1,911 were coded) were analyzed using thematic analysis. Several distinct kinds of conflict and responses were identified. Conflict was either direct or indirect, serious or non-serious; it most often was indirect and serious, referenced either insults or romantic contacts, and was frequently related to in-person fights. Coding relied on understanding both textual contexts and referents.

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Section: Expressions Of Conflict In Adolescents' Online Messagessupporting

confidence: 89%

Insights into Adolescent Online Conflict through Qualitative Analysis of Online Messages

Ranney

Lehrbach²,

Scott³

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Students' moral judgments and emotions of cyberbullying also vary depending on their age, cyberbullying experiences, and thinking perspectives [7]. Many minority and low-income youth are less likely to use the term "cyberbullying", and assume that cyberbullying only occurs when it leads to suicide or severe depression [8]. Thus, the public cognition of cyberbullying is not always as clear as researchers have defined it.…”

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How Do Chinese People View Cyberbullying? A Text Analysis Based on Social Media

Zhao

Lai

et al. 2022

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The rise of cyberbullying has been of great concern for the general public. This study aims to explore public attitudes towards cyberbullying on Chinese social media. Cognition and emotion are important components of attitude, and this study innovatively used text analysis to extract the cognition and emotion of the posts. We used a web crawler to collect 53,526 posts related to cyberbullying in Chinese on Sina Weibo in a month, where emotions were detected using the software “Text Mind”, a Chinese linguistic psychological text analysis system, and the content analysis was performed using the Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic model. Sentiment analysis showed the frequency of negative emotion words was the highest in the posts; the frequency of anger, anxiety, and sadness words decreased in turn. The topic model analysis identified three common topics about cyberbullying: critiques on cyberbullying and support for its victims, rational expressions of anger and celebrity worship, and calls for further control. In summary, this study quantitatively reveals the negative attitudes of the Chinese public toward cyberbullying and conveys specific public concerns via three common topics. This will help us to better understand the demands of the Chinese public so that targeted support can be proposed to curb cyberbullying.

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“…The anonymity of the internet was portrayed as a powerful weapon in their hands. Participants also noted that perpetrators may have been victims in the past, without specifying an act of violence; one idea is more in line with victims' behavior in terms of cyberbullying (24), and raises questions about the existence of a larger body of peer violence (25).…”

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Adolescent Perspectives About Online Hate Speech: Qualitative Analysis in the SELMA Project

Markogiannaki

Biniari²,

Panagouli

et al. 2021

ama

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Objective. This paper aims to study the views, perceptions and representations of online hate speech among adolescents in the Greek cohort of the SELMA Project.Methods. Qualitative research was conducted in focus groups of 36 Greek adolescents and the data were processed through thematic analysis method.Results. The majority was unfamiliar with the term “hate speech” and confused it with cyberbullying. The target characteristics of hate, ethnicity, race, gender, religion, physical weakness, disability, sexual orientation, and appearance emerged. Regarding people involved in hate speech, perpetrators in both hate speech and bullying were described to share common characteristics. The emphasis was placed on the victims’ resilience, as well as their socialization, as protective behaviors. Participants stressed the value of the right to freedom of speech, although there was no agreement on its limits. Additionally, it was highlighted that awareness of what is right and wrong is mostly taught by parents, while the role of education was also important. An important finding was that the majority of teenagers were optimistic, supporting the belief that it is possible to find a realistic solution.Conclusion. The findings support the need for prevention strategies in the school environment, so that adolescents will be able to recognize and potentially combat hate speech in the online and offline worlds.

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What Counts?: A Qualitative Study of Adolescents’ Lived Experience With Online Victimization and Cyberbullying

Cited by 23 publications

References 28 publications

Insights into Adolescent Online Conflict through Qualitative Analysis of Online Messages

Insights into Adolescent Online Conflict through Qualitative Analysis of Online Messages

How Do Chinese People View Cyberbullying? A Text Analysis Based on Social Media

Adolescent Perspectives About Online Hate Speech: Qualitative Analysis in the SELMA Project

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