How to Handle Online Harassment, Cyberstalking by Patients

2021 ◽  
Vol 56 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Allison M. Funicelli
Keyword(s):  
Online Harassment

Perceived Formal and Informal Sanctions in Deterring Cybercrime in a College Sample

2021 ◽  
pp. 104398622110016
Author(s):  
Adam M. Bossler
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Deviant Behavior ◽  
Software Piracy ◽  
Digital Piracy ◽  
Online Harassment ◽  
College Sample ◽  
Computer Hacking ◽  
Peer Associations ◽  
Password Cracking

The threat of formal sanctions is the criminal justice system’s primary tool to discourage online and offline deviant behavior. Yet, scholars have expressed strong concerns about the effectiveness of formal sanctions to deter cybercrime. Even more surprising is the sparsity of deterrence research in the cybercrime literature. This study examined the effects of perceived formal and informal sanctions on digital piracy, computer hacking, and online harassment in a large American college sample. Perceived formal sanctions was negatively correlated with software piracy, media piracy, password cracking, accessing accounts, sending mean messages privately online, and posting mean messages. Higher levels of perceived formal sanctions did not significantly predict any form of cybercrime, however, when controlling for informal sanctions and deviant peer associations. The implications of the findings for our ability to deter deviant behavior in cyberspace are explored.

scholarly journals Zoombombing During a Global Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 205630512110353
Author(s):  
Greg Elmer ◽  
Stephen J. Neville ◽  
Anthony Burton ◽  
Sabrina Ward-Kimola
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Online Harassment ◽  
Media Frames ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Cross Platform ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
Insight Into

Using a digital methods analysis, the following article conducts a cross-platform study of the emergent “Zoombombing” phenomenon alongside COVID-19 and the concomitant on-lining of professional and public life. This empirical study seeks to provide further insight to media frames characterizing Zoombombing at the outbreak of the pandemic, providing further insight into Zoombombing as a practice, how related actions act as an extension of longer histories and practices of online harassment, and the role that various platforms play in the phenomenon’s unfolding. By interrogating these points of departure, our study sheds light not only on Zoombombing as a cultural practice, but also how these acts manifest within and across a range of Internet platforms.

Categorizing Online Harassment on Twitter

2020 ◽  
pp. 283-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mozhgan Saeidi ◽  
Samuel Bruno da S. Sousa ◽  
Evangelos Milios ◽  
Norbert Zeh ◽  
Lilian Berton
Keyword(s):  
Online Harassment

scholarly journals Cybercrime and You: How Criminals Attack and the Human Factors That They Seek to Exploit

2018 ◽  
pp. 662-690 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason R. C. Nurse
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Denial Of Service ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Identity Theft ◽  
Hate Crimes ◽  
Psychological Aspects ◽  
Online Harassment ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Revenge Porn ◽  
Topical Analysis

Cybercrime is a significant challenge to society, but it can be particularly harmful to the individuals who become victims. This chapter engages in a comprehensive and topical analysis of the cybercrimes that target individuals. It also examines the motivation of criminals that perpetrate such attacks and the key human factors and psychological aspects that help to make cybercriminals successful. Key areas assessed include social engineering (e.g., phishing, romance scams, catfishing), online harassment (e.g., cyberbullying, trolling, revenge porn, hate crimes), identity-related crimes (e.g., identity theft, doxing), hacking (e.g., malware, cryptojacking, account hacking), and denial-of-service crimes. As a part of its contribution, the chapter introduces a summary taxonomy of cybercrimes against individuals and a case for why they will continue to occur if concerted interdisciplinary efforts are not pursued.

scholarly journals Advancing Research into Dark Participation

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 209-214
Author(s):  
Oscar Westlund
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Media Literacy ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Thematic Issue ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Online Harassment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Media Manipulation

Dark participation is and should be an essential concept for scholars, students and beyond, considering how widespread disinformation, online harassment, hate speech, media manipulation etc. has become in contemporary society. This commentary engages with the contributions to this timely thematic issue, which advance scholarship into dark participation associated with news and misinformation as well as hate in a worthwhile way. The commentary closes with a call for further research into four main areas: 1) the motivations that drive dark participation behaviors by individuals and coordinated groups; 2) how these individuals and groups exploit platforms and technologies for diverse forms of dark participation; 3) how news publishers, journalists, fact-checkers, platform companies and authorities are dealing with dark participation; and 4) how the public can advance their media literacy for digital media in order to better deal with dark participation. Authorities must advance and broaden their approaches focused on schools and libraries, and may also use emerging technologies in doing so.

“I can be your Tinder nightmare”: Harassment and misogyny in the online sexual marketplace

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Scripts ◽  
Online Harassment ◽  
Discursive Analysis ◽  
Dating Apps ◽  
Sexual Rejection ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Growing Body ◽  
Feminine Subject ◽  
Feminist Poststructuralist ◽  
Feminist Work

On Instagram, the accounts Bye Felipe and Tinder Nightmares feature screen-grabbed messages of sexist abuse and harassment women have received from men on dating apps. This paper presents a discursive analysis of 526 posts from these Instagrams. Utilising a psychosocial and feminist poststructuralist perspective, it examines how harassing messages reproduce certain gendered discourses and (hetero)sexual scripts, and analyses how harassers attempt to position themselves and the feminine subject in interaction. The analysis presents two themes, termed the “not hot enough” discourse and the “missing discourse of consent”, which are unpacked to reveal a patriarchal logic in which a woman's constructed “worth” in the online sexual marketplace resides in her beauty and sexual propriety. Occurring in response to women's exercise of choice and to (real or imagined) sexual rejection, it is argued these are disciplinary discourses that attempt to (re)position women and femininity as sexually subordinate to masculinity and men. This paper makes a novel contribution to a growing body of feminist work on online harassment and misogyny. It also considers the implications for feminist theorising on the link between postfeminism and contemporary forms of sexism, and ends with some reflections on strategies of feminist resistance.

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