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How to Stop "Violence"-Characteristics of Internet Violence Among College Students, Subjects' Responses and the Way to Solve the Problems

Author(s)

Mohan Zheng

Affiliation(s)

School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, China

Abstract

In the new era, people's understanding of the connotation of "cyber violence" has gradually changed from focusing on the "theory of violent information" to focusing on the "theory of violent behaviour", and the research on the behaviour of cyber violence has been more in-depth on the formation path and governance mechanism of cyber violence, with a lack of research on the behaviour of those who are victims of cyber violence. In terms of behavioural research on cyber violence, current research is more in-depth on the formation path and governance mechanism of cyber violence, and there is a lack of research on the coping behaviours and precautionary measures of those who are subjected to cyber violence. This study collects data through qualitative research methods, focusing on 32 small-scale cases of college students' online violence, and summarises the routes of this type of online violence, concluding that privatisation, competitiveness, confrontation and semi-hiddenness are the main features, and analysing the subjective responses to different college students' online violence, and discovering that avoidance, rationalisation and other psychological preventive mechanisms play an important role in the selection of the subject, and that the strong awareness of the risk of online violence plays a significant role in the selection of the subject. At the same time, it is found that psychological prevention mechanisms such as avoidance and rationalisation play an important role in the selection of subjects, while the strength of risk awareness of cyber violence determines whether college students can keenly perceive the emergence of cyber violence and its tendency to intensify, and stronger risk awareness can help college students to take the right measures before the incident worsens and prevent the formation of cyber violence as much as possible.

Keywords

Internet Violence; College Students; Risk Perception; Coping Strategies.

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