Dr José Ramón Agustina, Dr Irene Montiel and doctoral candidates Aina Gassó and Victoria Fernández, who are all teachers and researchers in the Faculty of Law, recently published an article in which they conclude that cyberbullying victimisation rates are increasing when compared to traditional bullying.

In a monograph for the second quartile journal entitled Educación y futuro. Revista de investigación aplicada y experiencias educativas, the four authors explain that since the end of the 1970s bullying between school-age minors has become consolidated as a global victimisation phenomenon of the greatest magnitude, but in recent years due to “rapid progress in information and communication technologies (ICT) a new type of bullying has emerged among minors that is directly derived from it, called cyberbullying”. 

The available scientific literature on cyberbullying is analysed in the article, providing a reflection of the existing data and approaches that have been used to tackle this type of bullying until now. The aim behind this is to understand the implications of the transition from bullying to cyberbullying.