Youth Violence and Social Media

SOCIAL SCIENCE REVIEW ARCHIVES , 2025

Abstract The current study was conducted on the impacts of social media usage on cyberbullying among youth in districts lower Dir Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. A sample size of 354 students was randomly selected for the collection of primary data by using structured questionnaires. The primary data was analyzed using descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage distribution) and inferential statistics, specifically the chi-square test. The present study found that the proliferation of the use of smartphones and the rising level of the usage of social media has transformed the practice of bullying at micro and macro levels. Children, teens, and youth of poor families become the victims of bullying more than those who have high income to encounter such kind of online bullying. Furthermore, cyberbullying is the most popular online crime on social media. Likewise, the majority of cyberbullies send explicit images to users they did not ask for and spread false rumors about social media users. Similarly, some common questions asked by someone other than your parents like where you were, who they are, with whom you were, and what you were doing, also come under the domain of cyberbullying. Similarly, the majority of social media users become victims of offensive names and have been threatened by someone through online social websites. Cyberbullying deteriorates well-being physically, socially, and psychologically. Cyberbullying is also vulnerable and threatens the social and economic stability of social media users. Keywords: Cyberbullying, Social Media, Victims, Dir Lower.

The term cyberbullying, for its devastating consequences, has become a significant topic in recent years. Technological advances have constructed a fertile environment for cyberbullying, which is increasing rapidly. Social media platforms, such as Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, or YouTube, offer ground for generating and distributing cyberbullying content. This study aimed to investigate the behavioral change pattern through cyberbullying in social media. A quantitative survey method was used in the study. A simple random sampling technique was used for selecting the sample. The sample size was 393 (male 223, female 170). The study found that Facebook is the most cyberbullying-friendly media (94.15%). Almost half of the respondents have experienced cyberbullying, and 74.5% of respondents avoid it if they are bullied. Most respondents stated that cyberbullying changed their social, mental, economic, and physical behavior. Users who practice cyberbullying use different methods. These include posting cyberbullying content, mentioning, forwarding, sharing, reacting, and participating in cyberbullying discussions.

IGI Global, 2022

This chapter focuses on the social media vulnerabilities due to excessive usage among the youth in developing countries like India. The increasing psychological dependence and ubiquitousness in the availability of technological gadgets make interaction possible at any time to anyone making the act of cyberbullying easier. The vulnerable sections of every society, especially the children, youth, and women, face incremental psychological health issues due to the negative impact of ever-increasing cyberbullying in one way or another. The chapter reports descriptively the extensive damages that are inflicted by social media platforms on the productivity of the developing countries due to the negative influence on the youth and working population of the developing countries including India.

AIP Conference , 2022

In the era of the internet, which is increasingly fast and growing today, the delivery of information and feedback on that information is very fast. Every second the posts, both statuses, stories and news spread in cyberspace continue to grow. This is none other than because of the very large number of social media support and various content sharing models. Cyberbullying is someone using information and communication technology such as, internet, cellphone, computer, camera, audio/video recording to share SMS, pictures or videos with threats, hoaxes and terror. This activity makes the victim feel embarrassed, stressed or depressed because all their disgrace is published on social media, it is difficult to delete something that has already been posted. This crime continues to grow along with the rapid development of the use of information technology and the internet. This study aims to analyze the phenomenon of cyberbullying among teenagers in Indonesia.

The Sri Lanka Journal of Human Rights, 2023

ABSTRACT This study encompasses the impact of Social Media platforms and violence against young girls. Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) is a gross violation of human rights that affects women, men, boys, and girls globally (Butchart and Milton 2014; Dahlberg and Krug 2002). Social media is at the forefront of digital technology. Currently, Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) has become a common phenomenon on social media. The objectives of this research are to study the way use of social media by young girls, to understand the various forms of social media violence, and to identify youths’ perspectives of their role in making online and social media platforms safer. This research studied how social media impacts gender-based violence among girls in Sri Lanka. The sample included two villages in the Kurunegala district: Sadalankawa, and Makandura. Both in-depth interviews and structured interviews were conducted to collect the required data. The survey was conducted from March to April 2023 among a representative sample of 50 youth (40 girls & 10 boys) in the age group of 18–24-year-olds and 24-30 Years old.

2023

Two billion people utilize the platform daily.Cyber victimization—online attacks or harm—has increased with social media use. Cyberbullying, or digital bullying, affects a large number of 11- to 14-year-olds. Despite empirical evidence that spending more time on social media platforms may increase the risk of cyber-victimization, there is little research on how adolescents use social media. A study found that 20% of youth participated in cyberbullying as perpetrators or victims. Social media use has increased cyber victimization among 12-18-year-olds in several nations. This study seeks to correlate two Indian variables. The study examined social media usage and cyber-victimization it is a correlation study that helps identify patterns and relationships between variables. It also illuminates complex phenomena and future research. This study examines the hypothesis that social media use causes cyberbullying. Results show that cyber victimization is rare and mild. The correlation coefficient between the scales is 0.78, indicating a strong positive link. The association is statistically insignificant because the p-value of 0.4 surpasses the 0.05 threshold for statistical significance. This shows that social media use increases online victimization.

Advances in social science, education and humanities research, 2023

Teenagers are very familiar with various social media platforms that are around us. Bullying is often obtained from social media, so they are triggered to carry out various forms of bullying which they also know through social media. Of course, there are many reasons behind them making various choices of forms of cyberbullying on social media. This research is to find out the reasons for choosing a form of cyberbullying by adolescents in Surakarta. The approach used is phenomenological qualitative. Six informants, with characteristics: 15-19 years old, high school students, and internet users for social media, access 4-5 hours per day. Data collection by interview, analyzed descriptive qualitative. As a result, the most common forms of cyberbullying by high school youth in Surakarta are outing and trickery. The reason is the extreme hatred and dislike of the victim's excessive, ostentatious behavior. Impersonation is used by men, cyberstalking by women. This result serves as a lesson for parents, teachers and youth that bullying for any reason posted on social media needs to be prevented, and will be subject to the ITE Law.

Journal of Islamic Psychology and Behavioral Sciences, 2023

The purpose of this study is to analyze how often perpetrators carry out cyberbullying actions. The type of research used is a type of survey. Respondents resulting from the survey amounted to N = 58 who were determined using data collection carried out by distributing online questionnaires through the Google form. Meanwhile, this study used the Mixed Method method with a sequential explanatory design. The results of this study can be concluded that most cyberbullying perpetrators have carried out cyberbullying and the majority are involved in low-level cyberbullying with an age range of 17-18 years.

Journal of New Media and Mass Communication, 2020

Use of wide range of social media, particularly by adolescent youths, is on an increasing trend. Children who watch many hours of violence on television, while they were in school days tend to show higher levels of aggressive behavior when they became teenagers. Adolescent group normally watch and actively take part in various issues popping up in social media. More or less they spend considerable time on actively interacting with these social Medias. Among children, there is a natural tendency to imitate what they see. They are generally less sensitive to the pain and suffering of others. Often children turn to behave in aggressive manner. News on violence also contributes to increased violence, mainly in the form of imitative suicides and acts of aggression. Video games are clearly capable of producing an increase in aggression and violence. In nutshell, the paper attempt long-term longitudinal studies which may be capable of demonstrating long-term effects in Indian contest. Social media post on controversial remarks against any religion, community, deities, eminent personalities have greater repercussion. The study reveals that most of the adolescent youth have disturbed lifestyle. This has resulted in adverse changes in their behavioral pattern and are highly prone to the violence. The focus of the media should be to develop a conducive atmosphere in the society. Contribution/Originality: This study is one of very few studies which have investigated to find out excessive use of Social Media by adolescent youth in Indian Context and consequent change in their behavioral pattern. This aims to document the explore the present pattern so as to focus on remedial measures. 1. INTRODUCTION Social media plays major role in the day to day life of every person. Social media share common interests, activities and personal relations. Use of internet, Television, WhatsApp and other social media, particularly by adolescent youths are on increasing trend. In a democratic set up there exist heterogeneity among the people, this often results in conflicts and violence, sometimes leading to huge communal violence and loss of properties and human life. India currently has a population of 1.36 billion, which is 17.1 percentage of the world's total population. The median age of the population in the country is 27.1 years, as such India is known as a "young country". Out of this population, 230 million or 70 percent are active social media users. The life expectancy is 69 years in India

The International Journal of Indian Psychology , 2023

In the modern time, where anything can be accessed with a single click, social media has become more and more important in today's environment. The Internet has had a significant influence on everyone's life, and it goes without saying that young people make up the majority of internet users. The youth of the present time are living a digital life with the internet technology. It provides various comforts to its users. No doubt internet technology has provided us lot of benefits; however, it also operates as a breeding environment for certain undesirable behaviours, one example of such undesirable behaviour is cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is the misuse of technology with the intention to harass and harm others. Due to the fact that it is a common problem among youngster and has more harmful effects than expected. It has many negative consequences on its victims such as stress, anxiety, social dissatisfaction, negative school attitude and in some cases substances abuse, depression, physical harm, mental strain and in extreme cases suicide also. That is the reasons why it is treated as the disease in the 21st century. The tragic events and increased incidence of this new kind of bullying have therefore made researchers, educators, government officials, and parents aware of its severe ramifications. The main aim of this paper is to highlight cyberbullying and its expected consequences on the youngsters in the present digital age.