According to some specialists, ceremonial funeral practices are inclined to disappear, particularly as death is an object of repression in contemporary society. However, it seems that new forms of rituals are developing through modern technologies. Virtual tombs, memorial webpages, and the celebration of death anniversaries are now common currency on the Internet. Nonetheless, the overexposure favored by the Web seems to question traditional ways of "living out" one's grief, subjecting the living and the dead to a redefinition of concepts of time and space, and entailing new forms of interaction.

The cyberspace represents a platform for social relations which permit to be in touch with the World, to be "seen" by others and to "see" others. As new technologies emerge, ways of viewing are revised, especially through screens: though it has facilitated communication, the main innovation of the virtual world has been seeing, hearing and showing everything with the individual at the center of permanent interactions. But this overexposure can be dangerous: in attempting to be as much a part of the virtual world through self-exposition, individuals expose themselves to potential sources of humiliation. This exploratory analysis will outline the main literature concerning humiliation in the virtual world. By looking at the interaction occurring in the Internet, it will be shown that a dialectic exchange between "being seen" and "seeing" others exists and that it can be a trap for the individuals which leads to humiliation, henceforth called "cyberhumiliation". It will be also attempted to outline the differences between cyber-humiliation and humiliation in the contemporary society.

The internet constitutes a virtual "place" for sociability. It is a platform for interactions based on reciprocal and dialectic exchange between "being seen by others" and "seeing others". As new technologies emerge, ways of viewing are revised: The main innovation of the internet has been, in ordinary life as in the media, seeing, hearing and showing everything with the individual at the center of permanent interactions established in a virtual world that makes it unseen by the naked eye. But visibility is a trap: In attempting to a part of the virtual world through self-exposition, individuals expose themselves to potential sources of humiliation. This article will explore how the internet has redefined individuals' representations of self, while exposing them to the misappropriation of their image.Keywords: Cyberbullying, Gaze, Humiliation, Interactions, Internet, Selfpresentation.Yrd. Doç. Dr., Uluslararası Kıbrıs Üniversitesi, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi, jadilmac@hotmail.com Bu makale iThenticate sistemi tarafından taranmıştır.

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À travers une étude comparative entre les sites de prévention français et anglais, il s’agit dans cet article de comprendre comment le cyberharcèlement est appréhendé par les divers acteurs tant officiels que non officiels. Après avoir évoqué dans une première partie l’influence de Dan Olweus dans la conceptualisation de ce phénomène, une analyse des discours véhiculés par les sites préventifs en question est proposée : l’objectif est de voir en quels termes est décrite l’humiliation sur Internet en vue de sensibiliser les citoyens à de tels dangers. Enfin, une discussion des limites des mesures préconisées dans les deux contextes nationaux fait l’objet d’une troisième partie.