A philosophical and evolutionary approach to cyber-bullying: social networks and the disruption of sub-moralities

Bertolotti, Tommaso; Magnani, Lorenzo

doi:10.1007/s10676-013-9324-3

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“…First, face-to-face gossip makes use of verbal language, whilst cybergossip can take the form of written messages, images, and videos. Second, cybergossip messages are recorded and can be reproduced exactly as originally created, which may influence what is shared in the first place (Bertolotti and Magnani, 2013 ). Third, cybergossip has the potential to reach a wide audience, at any time, and instantaneously.…”

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How Much Do Adolescents Cybergossip? Scale Development and Validation in Spain and Colombia

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Cybergossip is the act of two or more people making evaluative comments via digital devices about somebody who is not present. This cyberbehavior affects the social group in which it occurs and can either promote or hinder peer relationships. Scientific studies that assess the nature of this emerging and interactive behavior in the virtual world are limited. Some research on traditional gossip has identified it as an inherent and defining element of indirect relational aggression. This paper adopts and argues for a wider definition of gossip that includes positive comments and motivations. This work also suggests that cybergossip has to be measured independently from traditional gossip due to key differences when it occurs through ICT. This paper presents the Colombian and Spanish validation of the Cybergossip Questionnaire for Adolescents (CGQ-A), involving 3,747 high school students (M = 13.98 years old, SD = 1.69; 48.5% male), of which 1,931 were Colombian and 1,816 were Spanish. Test models derived from item response theory, confirmatory factor analysis, content validation, and multi-group analysis were run on the full sample and subsamples for each country and both genders. The obtained optimal fit and psychometric properties confirm the robustness and suitability of a one-dimensional structure for the cybergossip instrument. The multi-group analysis shows that the cybergossip construct is understood similarly in both countries and between girls and boys. The composite reliability ratifies convergent and divergent validity of the scale. Descriptive results show that Colombian adolescents gossip less than their Spanish counterparts and that boys and girls use cybergossip to the same extent. As a conclusion, this study confirmes the relationship between cybergossip and cyberbullying, but it also supports a focus on positive cybergossip in psychoeducational interventions to build positive virtual relationships and prevent risky cyberbehaviors.

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How Much Do Adolescents Cybergossip? Scale Development and Validation in Spain and Colombia

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“…This may explain why some people join in the bullying when they do not know the victim or the initiating bully. Bertolotti and Magnani (2013) describe this behaviour as gratuitously humiliating another person in public and compare it to "sociopathy." In this sense, it is similar to the "hate crimes" mentioned by G&F, and contempt rather than hate is more likely to justify such behaviour.…”

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Building a house of sentiment on sand: Epistemological issues with contempt

2017

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“…Considering what we exposed so far, we can indeed see how this configuration equals setting a fight arena between human beings that became DACCs, as they obtained an ubiquitous access to their social cognition (and its enhancement by bits of artificial cognition) and, in return, paid the price of forsaking (at least as long as they act-as-DACCs) the real life subdivision that separates them but also protects them, and the groups they belong to, from each other [16,36].…”

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“…If being cyborgs meant for instance carrying around powerful implanted weaponry, then the effects would be apparent to anyone: conversely, we are mostly unaware of the effects of our diffused social cyborgization apart from brief moments of wonder after some peculiar coincidences, or-we will see it in the next section-when the outcomes become violent. As already suggested by Bertolotti and Magnani [16], evolutionarily oriented cognitive studies cannot be spared from having their say about the matter inasmuch as pro-social technology is effective by reproducing and simulating our social-cognitive affordances (for instance, our inclination towards gossip), making the cyborgization of our selves utterly transparent.…”

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Of Cyborgs and Brutes: Technology-Inherited Violence and Ignorance

2016

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The broad aim of this paper is to question the ambiguous relationship between technology and intelligence. More specifically, it addresses the reasons why the ever-increasing reliance on smart technologies and wide repositories of data does not necessarily increase the display of "smart" or even "intelligent" behaviors, but rather increases new instances of "brutality" as a mix of ignorance and violence. We claim that the answer can be found in the cyborg theory, and more specifically in the possibility to blend (not always for the best) different kinds of intentionality.

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A philosophical and evolutionary approach to cyber-bullying: social networks and the disruption of sub-moralities

Cited by 25 publications

References 26 publications

How Much Do Adolescents Cybergossip? Scale Development and Validation in Spain and Colombia

How Much Do Adolescents Cybergossip? Scale Development and Validation in Spain and Colombia

Building a house of sentiment on sand: Epistemological issues with contempt

Of Cyborgs and Brutes: Technology-Inherited Violence and Ignorance

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