Cyberbullying is a problem that is being increasingly investigated by researchers, however, much of the cyberbullying research literature to date has focused on children and youth. Cyberbullying at University in International Contexts fills the gap in the research literature by examining the nature, extent, impacts, proposed solutions, and policy and practice considerations of bullying in the cyber-world at post-secondary institutions, where reports of serious cyberbullying incidents have become more prevalent.
This book brings together cutting-edge research from around the world to examine the issue of cyberbullying through a multi-disciplinary lens, offering an array of approaches, interpretations, and solutions. It is not solely focused on cyberbullying by and against students, but also includes cyberbullying by and against faculty members, and permutations involving both students and faculty, as well as institutional staff, presenting perspectives from students, practitioners and senior university policy makers. It draws on research from education, criminology, psychology, sociology, communications, law, health sciences, social work, humanities, labour studies and is valuable reading for graduate students in these fields. It is also essential reading for policymakers, practitioners and University administrators who recognize their responsibility to provide a healthy workplace for their staff, as well as a safe and respectful environment for their students.
Author(s): Wanda Cassidy, Chantal Faucher, Margaret Jackson
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2018
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of tables
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Introduction: context, framework, and perspective
Part I Nature and extent
1 Cyberbullying among university students in France: prevalence, consequences, coping, and intervention strategies
2 Relationships among university students/faculty and cyberbullying in Japan
3 Experiences of cyberbullying at a Chilean university: the voices of students
4 MySpace or yours? An exploratory study of homophobic and transphobic cyberbullying of post-secondary students
5 Power in the tower: the gendered nature of cyberbullying among students and faculty at Canadian universities
6 Cyberbullying within working contexts
Part II Impacts
7 From traditional bullying to cyberbullying: cybervictimization among higher education students
8 “You need a thick skin . . .”: impacts of cyberbullying at Canadian universities
9 Student-to-faculty targeted cyberbullying: the impact on faculty
Part III Solutions
10 In the e-presence of others: understanding and developing constructive cyber-bystander action
11 The fairness lens: a university ombudsperson’s perspective on building a kinder online culture on campus
12 Designing healthy and supportive campus communities: an example from Simon Fraser University
13 Preventive measures against cyberbullying at a university in Japan
14 Intervening against workplace cyberbullying
Part IV Policy
15 Cyberbullying in the Australian university context: the shades of harm and implications for law and policy
16 What’s policy got to do with it? The focus on cyberbullying policy at the university level
17 Faculty members who are bullies
18 Cyberbullying in the sheltering darkness of digital anonymity
Reflections and conclusions
Index
