O papel social da escola frente ao ciberbullying: uma perspectiva dos diretores escolares do município de Rio Largo

Abstract

The advent of technologies together with the internet, brought numerous advances to society, allowing flexibility of communication and access to information. However, malicious use can lead to social problems, such as ciberbullying. Ciberbullying is characterized as aggressions that are committed virtually, with the intention of oppressing, humiliating and disparaging the victim. Violence will come from a person or a group of people who will generally use social media, text messages, photos and videos, threatening and / or exposing victims in embarrassing situations. Based on the assumption that ciberbullying is a result of bullying that occurs in school spaces, this research questions how the social role of schools in the face of virtual violence, that is, in the face of ciberbullying. In this sense, the research universe consists of 4 school managers, both public and private, in the city of Rio Largo, in order to find out what social role the school has been assuming in the face of ciberbullying. The study is qualitative in nature and fits into exploratory research. After the data collection, the results analyzed indicated that the principals not only knew about cyberbullying but also had experiences of cases in their own schools, by means of this data we elaborated a guide with recommendations to the reasearched schools. Therefore, the social role theses schools adopted to fight the cyberbullying occurrence it was the dialogue with the students and their guardians.