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Chapter 17
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-4964-6.ch017
ABSTRACT
Cyberbullying is a new form of bullying and brings additional challenges for school staff. In addition
to the numerous benefits that information and communication technologies provide, it also contributes
to the occurrence of negativities. One of these negativities is that it adds a new dimension to peer bul-
lying, which is already a problem in schools. This bullying, which is called cyber bullying or electronic
bullying, is a subject that has just started to be studied in other countries and has not yet been studied
in Turkey. This chapter qualitatively examined cyberbullying and exposure of children to cyberbullying.
INTRODUCTION
New media environments that have emerged with the developments in information and communication
technologies have gradually reduced the age of using the Internet and have begun to play a vital role
in the daily life practices of children and youth and the development of their identities. Livingstone
and Brake (2010) state that social networking sites are rapidly adopted by children and young people
worldwide. They argue that it offers significant new opportunities for fundamental issues such as self-
representation, learning, building and developing networks, and maintaining and managing intimate
relationships and personal privacy. Özkent and Açıkel’s research results discovered significant positive
associations between binge-watching behaviour and emotional conduct, cognitive problems, and DSM-
IV–Inattention. From a democracy policy perspective, there was a consistently hopeful view that this
could enrich freedom of expression and freedom of the press and that democracy would benefit from
this development (Özkeçeci 2022: 43).
An AMPIC Research on the
Effects of Cyberbullying
on Children
Pelin Yolcu
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7235-4671
University of Dicle, Turkey