The Printemps numérique, as part of the financial support program Together Against Bullying of the Québec Ministry of Family, presents the report « Cyberviolence among the youth: The challenges of the cyberbullying » and the « Framework of skills of prevention of the cyberbullying among the youth » produced by the sociologist and researcher Amina Yagoubi PhD. These documents aim to raise awareness, prevent and equip the educational and community stakeholders in response to the cyberbullying.
Main objectives
- Raise awareness: Provide tools to recognize forms of cyberbullying.
- Prevent: Encourage safe and responsible online practices.
- Protect: Develop strategies to support the youth affected by the cyberbullying.
Why this report is important?
The cyberviolence, including the cyberbullying, affects seriously the mental health and the well-being of the victims. A collective response combining education, legislation, technological tools and psychological support is essential to curb this scourge. This review of the literature highlights:
- the importance of a education digital inclusive.
- The need of laws adapted in counter the online abuse.
- The serious psychological impacts, such as the isolation and the distress emotional, among the young victims.
Structure of the report
- Data and context: Exploration of the trends current, including of the statistics.
- Forms and impacts of the cyberviolence: Study of the different forms of cyberviolence such as the sexting, the doxing, the deepfakes, etc. Analysis of the repercussions to short and way terme on the mental health and social youth.
- Technological solutions and international initiatives: Presentation of programs such as ReThink and of the applications as BullStop, used in raise awareness and protect the youth contre the cyberbullying.
- Recommendations practical: Actions in the parents, educators and decision-makers public in reduce the risks of cyberbullying.
Points key to remember
- Statistics worrying: 57 % youth Québecers aged of 10 to 18 ans reportent have experienced a form of cyberbullying and this only 22 % young victims that vont seek of the help.
- Roles major of the parents and educators·professionals: Awareness and guidance youth in their navigation digital.
- Local and international initiatives: Of the programs innovative aim to educate the youth on the uses responsibles of the technologies. Among eux, the initiative of the Cafés digital of the Printemps numérique, that fosters the discussion and the awareness around practices digital safe.
NEW – Framework of skills of prevention of the cyberbullying among the youth
In the continuation of the publication of its review of literature, the Printemps numérique unveils the Framework of skills of prevention of the cyberbullying among the youth, a tools innovative, in order of better prevent and counter the cyberbullying that affects of increasingly the youth of Québec.
This that the Framework provides:
Because that the teachers·e·s, educators·rice·s, workers·e·s youth and parents lack often tools adapted, the Framework highlights to their disposal:
- a language common in better understand aborder the cyberbullying;
- of the reference points clear and concrete in intervene of way effective;
- of the guidelines guidelines practical in strengthen the consistency of the actions educational in all the milieux.
A approach structured and inclusive
The Framework appuie on the expertise of the environment and is built around of:
- 2 axes: reflective & pragmatic
- 4 dimensions: society, individual, education, justice
It covers the together of the spaces where the cyberbullying manifests and supports the development of skills digital essential in the security youth.
