Cyberbullying e cyberstalking

Abstract

A presente tese de doutoramento versa sobre os fenómenos do cyberbullying e do cyberstalking, a violência e a comunicação na cibercultura. Tendo-se centrado a investigação no estudo do comportamento dos indivíduos face aos objetos de estudo (cyberbullying e cyberstalking), e visando orientar os trabalhos empíricos, formulou-se a seguinte pergunta de partida: “Como se comportam os indivíduos perante o cyberbullying e o cyberstalking?”. Seguiram-se-lhe as questões orientadoras “QD1 – Serão o cyberbullying e o cyberstalking a mesma realidade?” e “QD2 – Como se comportam os estudantes universitários relativamente ao cyberbullying”. Estruturada ao longo de nove capítulos, esta tese de doutoramento deslinda casos reais de cyberbullying e cyberstalking, traz à luz o crowdbullying, o soft cyberbullying e o cyberbullying illusion effect. Os capítulos são: “Metodologia”, “O homem, um animal pulsional”, “Comunicação e cibercultura: do sonho ao terror”, “Cyberstalking”, “Cyberbullying”, “Crowdbullying”, “Análise de dados”, “O cyberbullying numa perspetiva Batesoniana”, “Reputação, cyberbullying e cyberstalking”.

This doctoral thesis deals with the phenomena of cyberbullying and cyberstalking, violence and communication in cyberculture. Centering the research on individuals behavior face to the study objects (cyberbullying and cyberstalking), and in order to guide empirical work, the formulated start question is: “How individuals behave face to cyberbullying and cyberstalking?”. Followed by the guiding questions “QD1 - Will cyberbullying and cyberstalking be the same reality?” and “QD2 - How university students behave in relation to cyberbullying?” in order to guide empirical work. Structured over nine chapters, this doctoral thesis unravels actual cases of cyberbullying and cyberstalking, brings light to the crowdbullying, soft cyberbullying and cyberbullying illusion effect realities. The chapters are: “Methodology”, “Man, an instinctual animal”, “Communication and cyberculture: from the dream to the terror”, “Cyberstalking”, “Cyberbullying”, “Crowdbullying”, “Data Analysis”, “Cyberbullying in a Batesonian perspective”, “Reputation, cyberbullying and cyberstalking”.