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Can E-safety Compromise Children’s Rights?
Tijana Milosevic ·
Summary
Written by AI, not yet AICS's view · claude-sonnet-5-5This book chapter reviews research on digital bullying using literature from several disciplines. It examines how the media cover e-safety, online risks and harms, and looks at moral and technopanics, meaning exaggerated concerns about young people's use of technology. It argues that protection from digital bullying should be considered within children's rights. It also calls for attention to the wider culture of humiliation and to dignity, instead of simple blame-focused responses after bullying cases.
Key points
- The chapter reviews and critically examines research findings on digital bullying from an interdisciplinary literature.
- It critically analyzes media coverage of e-safety, online risks and harms.
- It discusses moral and technopanics as exaggerated concerns over youth use of technology and their consequences for various stakeholders.
- It builds the case for treating protection from digital bullying in the context of children's rights.
- It argues for addressing the culture of humiliation and focusing on dignity rather than simplistic finger-pointing.
Limitations
Only the abstract is available, so specific research findings, data sources and any country context cannot be assessed. It is a critical review and does not evaluate an intervention.
Abstract
This chapter provides a more elaborate review and a critical examination of research findings about digital bullying, drawing from an interdisciplinary literature. In light of these findings, it critically analyzes media coverage of e-safety, online risks and harms, which digital bullying is an example of, as well as moral and technopanics –exaggerated concerns over youth use of technology and the consequences that emerge under such circumstances for various stakeholders. This chapter also builds the case for considering protection from digital bullying in the context of children’s rights. Wider social and cultural problems that remain less discussed in public discourse on digital bullying are given special attention to, building the case as to why it is important to address the culture of humiliation, focusing attention on dignity, rather than engaging in simplistic binaries of finger-pointing that are so often witnessed in the aftermaths of digital bullying cases.