Cyber-bullying and Anonymity: Modeling and Analysis of Social Media Conversations

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25540141
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Web informatics, Service informatics
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: NAKANO Tadashi 大阪大学, 生命機能研究科, 招聘准教授 (70571173)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: ネットいじめ / ソーシャルメディア / コミュニケーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Cyber-bullying is a growing concern in today's information society. Cyber-bullying is a form of bullying that abuses technology to attack victims repeatedly over a long period of time. Cyber-bullies may use personal computers, cell phones or Internet services to negatively impact the mental health of victims. In this project, we collected a set of messages exchanged among users on a social networking web site, and analyzed the messages to characterize the features of cyber-bullying. In this project, we also discussed techniques to locate victims of cyber-bullying based on how users exchange messages.

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