Menors, neutralització i internet: un estudi quantitatiu de l’acceptació de les tècniques de neutralització com a model explicatiu de l’online harassment

Vila i Mimó, Júlia

Menors, neutralització i internet: un estudi quantitatiu de l’acceptació de les tècniques de neutralització com a model explicatiu de l’online harassment

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Vila i Mimó, J. Menors, neutralització i internet: un estudi quantitatiu de l’acceptació de les tècniques de neutralització com a model explicatiu de l’online harassment. 2021. handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10230/53000

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Abstract

The advancement of Information and Communication Technologies and the widespread access of individuals to the Internet have shaped cyberspace as a new area of socialization for teenagers. Thus, in a cybernetic context, in which social control is loosened and individuals feel less constrained by conventional social norms, new forms of social cybercrime have proliferated. Academic research has focused its interest on continued online harassment phenomena, such as cyberbullying and cyberstalking, while individualized acts of online harassment, which often are more common among teenagers, have received very low academic attention. In this way, this study aims to analyze the perpetration of online harassment among minors, and to note that the neutralization techniques provide an explanation for this phenomenon of online harassment. To this end, a quantitative study, based on surveys on minors, has been carried out to conduct a statistical analysis, that has enabled to conclude the significance of neutralization as an explanatory variable for this phenomenon, altogether with the perpetrators'age.