CYBERBULLYING – VIOLENŢA ÎN ERA DIGITALĂ

Loredana-Raluca UNGUREANU, Gruia URSU Universitatea „Alexandru Ioan Cuza” din Iaşi (România)

Аннотация

CYBERBULLYING – VIOLENCE IN THE DIGITAL ERA This paper represents a first approach for raising the awareness regarding a dimension of violence manifested especially among children and youngsters – cyberbullying, violence in virtual environment. In the context of the digital era, of the contemporary society that defines and redefines itself constantly according to the technological evolution, in a world that builds itself, crumbles and rebuilds itself from behind the monitors, in a school of the digital natives that develop themselves especially by using the ocean of information offered through the Internet, the aggressiveness gets enormous proportions with devastating effects. The first step in solving the problem is to admit its existence, to define correctly all its aspects, to identify the triggers. Keywords: bullying, cyberbullying, online communication, socialising, violence aggressiveness.