Virtuell mobbning
Mobbning bland ungdomar genom ny teknik
The purpose of this essay is to draw attention to a rather new phenomena, virtual bullying amongst young people. Bullying has been known for a long time but today, bullying has found new ways of expression. New technology, which includes the Internet and cell phones, has given the bullies new weapons to use in their bullying.The study I have done has been qualitative and contained interviews. Represents from two communities, Playahead and LunarStorm, and two organisations, BRIS and Friends, all together five persons (two persons from LunarStorm) have been interviewed and had the opportunity to tell me their view on virtual bullying.The results show that young people see the new technologies as a valuable prolongation of their reality that they won?t give up if they don?t need to. I have also discovered that the young people hide behind something they think is anonymity. When you bully on the Internet for example, you can choose to be anonymous to the ones you bully but you aren?t anonymous to everyone. The Internet-page owners know who the bully is and can trace IP-numbers and confront the bullies. Something my study also has shown is how important it is that adults know what their kids do on the Internet and on their cell phones. They aren?t aware of that their son or daughter can just as well get in trouble at home as out on the town a Friday night. Some future research I would find interesting is how bullying changes and adapts to new environments and what a preventive work against virtual bullying could look like.