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A NEW DIGITAL AGE AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS: ASK.FM – A WEBSITE FOR ENTERTAINMENT OR CYBERBULLYING

International Journal of Advanced Statistics and IT&c for Economics and Life Sciences

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Title A NEW DIGITAL AGE AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS: ASK.FM – A WEBSITE FOR ENTERTAINMENT OR CYBERBULLYING
 
Creator Vincek, Denis
 
Description Unlike Web 1.0, which was primarily used to gather information, we are today dealing with Web 2.0, which could be perceived as social software as it enables communication and sharing of information between users. Thus, when speaking about the Internet of today, we are referring to a medium that uses social networks, blogs and other virtual communities to connect people, which further emphasize its social dimension in the new digital age. The students of today spend over two thirds of their time online on entertainment and the reason for this lies in Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. The study conducted among the students of seventh and eighth grades in a Croatian elementary showed that 69 percent of participants had an active account on the internet social network Ask.fm, which now has 134 million registered users. As a website with all traits of a social network, Ask.fm enables people to ask questions to each other and respond to them whenever they want. The questions can be asked anonymously or with a revealed identity. The study conducted on a sample of 1000 questions and answers showed that 17.3 percent of those questions open up certain ethical dilemmas – from inappropriate words (swearing), sexist terms, denial of positive life values to cyberbullying, and seven fatalities which ended in Ask.fm bullying-related suicides have been recorded among the youths. The study has shown that Ask.fm has no positive traits.
 
Publisher Lucia Blaga University of Sibiu
 
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Date 2016-06-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://magazines.ulbsibiu.ro/ijasitels/index.php/IJASITELS/article/view/1
 
Source International Journal of Advanced Statistics and IT&c for Economics and Life Sciences; Vol 6, No 1 (2016): IJASITELS
2067-354X
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://magazines.ulbsibiu.ro/ijasitels/index.php/IJASITELS/article/view/1/10
 
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