%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Cyber-Harassment Victimization Among South African LGBTQIA+ Youth
%+ University of Cape Town
%A Hendricks, Kayla
%A Tsibolane, Pitso
%A Belle, Jean-Paul, Van
%Z Part 3: Security
%< avec comité de lecture
%( Lecture Notes in Computer Science
%B 19th Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (I3E)
%C Skukuza, South Africa
%Y Marié Hattingh
%Y Machdel Matthee
%Y Hanlie Smuts
%Y Ilias Pappas
%Y Yogesh K. Dwivedi
%Y Matti Mäntymäki
%I Springer International Publishing
%3 Responsible Design, Implementation and Use of Information and Communication Technology
%V LNCS-12067
%N Part II
%P 135-146
%8 2020-04-06
%D 2020
%R 10.1007/978-3-030-45002-1_12
%K Cyber-harassment
%K Cyber victimization
%K LGBTQIA+
%K Negative impact of social media
%Z Computer Science [cs]
%Z Computer Science [cs]/Networking and Internet Architecture [cs.NI]Conference papers
%X Cyber-harassment victimization is one of today’s major problems affecting the wellbeing of youth, particularly those that identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning, intersex, asexual and gender non-conforming (LGBTQIA+). This exploratory study aims to determine the nature of cyber-harassment victimization, its enablers, and the coping mechanisms that online platforms provide to prevent or stop cyber-harassment. An online survey of ninety (n = 90) LGBTQIA+ young adults of ages between 18 and 34 from South Africa reveals a high incidence of exclusion, outing and harassment, covering a wide variety of types, duration and experienced severity, taking place through text messaging and social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Most LGBTQIA+ youth resort to measures such as blocking, deleting offensive content and adjusting privacy settings to cope with cyber-victimization. Worryingly, the most severe effects of harassment such as depression, drug abuse, self-harm and suicide contemplation, have significant correlations with the harassment type used, harassment duration and harassment frequency. The paper discusses the implications for educational and social practice and future studies.
%G English
%Z TC 6
%Z WG 6.11
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-03774210/document
%2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-03774210/file/497534_1_En_12_Chapter.pdf
%L hal-03774210
%U https://inria.hal.science/hal-03774210
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