globalized. Social media is one of the biggest key in making it happen. It is a globalizing agent. Apart from its benefits it has dark side too in the form of cyber harassment/stalking which leads to many social and psychological problems for the people under influence of this technology. The aim of this research essay is to investigate the increase of cyber harassment and bullying on social media and highlight the steps that are taken for its prevention. In order to have better understanding, we first going
skeptical about myths that all online offences are necessarily anonymous, that effective prosecution is impossible and that courts or police are unsympathetic. Identity Management Cyber stalkers feed on digital information: information about their victims and signals from their victims that the target of the stalking is in pain. Potential victims (whether 9 or 90) can and arguably should manage their online presence, in particular their online identity – the information available on the net that
growth of the new crime which is cyber-crime throughout the world. Wordpress (n.d), research revealed that the history of cyber-crime happens when computers and networks came into being in the 1990s, hacking was done basically to get more information about the systems and hackers even competed against one another to win the tag of the best hacker, as a result, many networks were affected. There are a lot of definitions for cyber-crime. According to Joseph (2006), cyber-crime defines as crimes committed
it has showed in an intense social issue, called Cyber bullying. Modern technology may either give positive or negative effects to those who use if often in the society. On one hand it can give us relatedness; on the other it can boost emotional stress (Mitchel, 2011). As such young internet user, along with students, may be at the sympathy of cyber bullies. The sufferer, under an extraordinary emotional stress, students can't focus on their studies, and in this way their scholastic advancement is
The reason to why have I chosen this issue is because cybercrime is an arising issue in Pakistan and I am acquainted to individuals who have been made victims of cybercrime. Terms such as Internet fraud, cyber bullying, and identity theft etc. all come under the world of ‘Cybercrime’. The damages caused by cybercrime vary depending on the type of crime committed. Damages caused by cybercrime can affect a person both psychologically and economically. A person commits cybercrime either by being motivated
Indeed, proposals for amendment of Kenya’s cyber laws have been scrutinised with a keen human rights eye to ensure that rights are safeguarded. Considering that crimes must be defined before anyone can be punished for committing them, human right practitioners are always wary of the personal rights
The journal is on survey of cases of online harassment and suggests the introduction of such tools that reports and controls harassments or unwelcomed comment and that they should be placed under the control of the online users. For instance, the social networking websites should have