Bulletin: Cyberworlds – Cybersecurity and Social Media

Articles

• Gil Baram, Israeli Defense in the Age of Cyber War
• Tamar Lahav and Osnat Roth-Cohen, The Changing Blogosphere and Its Impact on Public Relations Practice and Professional Ethics
• Amit M. Schejter and Noam Tirosh, The Digital Divide in Israel
• Revital Sela-Shayovitz, David C. Pyrooz, and Scott H. Decker, Israeli and US Gangs in the Virtual World
• Efrat Shoham, Perceptions among Israeli Talkbackers Regarding Female Violence
• Lior Tabansky, Cyber Security Challenges: The Israeli Water Sector Example
• Moran Yarchi et al, Invest, Engage, and Win: Online Campaigns and Their Outcomes in an Israeli Election
• Thomas Zeitzoff, Does Social Media Influence Conflict? Evidence from the 2012 Gaza Conflict
• Gadi Zerach, Pathological Narcissism, Cyberbullying Victimization and Offending among Homosexual and Heterosexual Participants in Online Dating Websites

 

Reviews

• Rikke Bjerg Jensen, on Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein’s Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age

Theses

• Shahirah Elaiza Wan Hassan, Hashtag Wars: Twitter as a Discursive Space in the ‘Battle of Narratives’ between pro-Israelis and pro-Palestinians (MA, Victoria University of Wellington)

Events

• “Cybersecurity in an Age of Uncertainty: U.S.-Israel Perspectives” Conference; American University Center for Israel Studies, March 20-21, 2017

 

New Article: Tarablus et al, Cyber Bullying Among Teenagers in Israel

Tarablus, Tamar, Tali Heiman, and Dorit Olenik-Shemesh. “Cyber Bullying Among Teenagers in Israel: An Examination of Cyber Bullying, Traditional Bullying, and Socioemotional Functioning.” Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma 24.6 (2015): 707-20.

 

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2015.1049763

 

Abstract
In this study, the relationships between cyber bullying and involvement in traditional bullying, with reference to social support and gender differences, was examined. Social support plays an important role in empowering victims of cyber bullying and has a significant influence on children and teenagers’ well-being. A sample made up of 458 Israeli junior high students (242 female, 216 male) in the age range of 11 to 13 completed 4 questionnaires. Results indicated that there is an overlap between involvement in cyber bullying and involvement in traditional bullying. The findings indicate that girls were more likely to be cyber victims than boys and that boys were more likely to be cyber bullies than girls. Examination of the relationships between gender and social support variables such as friends, family, and others, shows that girls who were cyber victims reported having more support in all 3 types than cyber bullied boys. These findings can serve as a basis for prevention and intervention programs to cope with cyber bullying.

 

 

New Article: Peled et al, Normative Beliefs About Cyberaggression in Israeli Youth

Peled, Yehuda, Efrat Pieterse, Mandy B. Medvin, and Linda P. Domanski, “Normative Beliefs About Cyberaggression in Israeli Youth.” In Proceedings of Society for Information Technology & Teacher Education International Conference 2015 (ed. D. Slykhuis & G. Marks; Chesapeake, Va.: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education, 2015), 1265-1270.

 

Abstract

We examined student views about cyberaggression among Israeli 5th-10th grades using a self-report, cross-sectional design. Results from 823 Jewish-Israeli and Arab-Israeli youth were analyzed on measures of normative beliefs about cyberaggression, face-to-face aggression, strategy responses to hypothetical cyber scenarios, and amount of electronic usage. Findings indicated that normative beliefs about cyberaggression were associated with traditional aggression, increased with grade, that males had higher normative beliefs than females, and that gender differences in cyberstrategies were supported. Normative beliefs predicted direct cyberaggressive strategies more clearly than indirect strategies, regardless of degree of electronic usage. Findings suggest that such views can influence student choices of behaviors, but that methodologically we need a clearer understanding of the influence of beliefs on indirect strategies.