A typology of cyberbullying in youths

Abstract

This article aims to describe and analyze the types of cyberbullying in young adults. For this, a qualitative research was carried out in which open and unstructured interviews were conducted with 25 young adults from Medellín, Colombia. One of the results is a classification of cyberbullying into six types: information theft, online defamation, digital impersonation, cyber harassment, sextortion and revenge porn. At the same time, the article explores the motivations of aggressors and the effects of cyberbullying on victims.