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Portraits of the Most Severely Affected Population in Online Violence
- 1 Wanjiang University of Technology
- 2 Shanghai University
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Abstract
In today’s new high-tech era, the phenomenon of cyberviolence, with the proliferation of social media in most people’s lives, has attracted global attention to cyberviolence and its victims. More and more research evidence shows that victims vulnerable to cyber violence share many similar characteristics. So, this paper aims to conduct a scientific study to find out the specific portrait of the vulnerable victim group. This paper collects data from network questionnaires, frequency analysis, validity analysis, reliability analysis, and chi-square test. A total of 437 random Chinese netizens participated in this study; the results of the study show that the people who are vulnerable to network violence, basically in line with the portrait, the experimental results present: the susceptible boys are those who are Gentle and Kind, have a postgraduate education, are underage, and work in the service industry. The susceptible girls are radical, with a high school education or below, aged 10-19, primarily underage, and working as housewives. This paper can provide direction for cybersecurity practitioners to reduce the harm suffered by victims of cyberviolence.
Keywords
cyber bullying, victim portrait, social media, safeguard rights and interests, types of online violence
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Gao,L.;Ma,Y. (2023). Portraits of the Most Severely Affected Population in Online Violence. Communications in Humanities Research,19,35-41.
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