Stranger Is Not Always Danger: The Myth and Reality of Meetings with Online Strangers
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Stranger Is Not Always Danger: The Myth and Reality of Meetings with Online Strangers
Original language description
This chapter deals with the topic of face-to-face meetings with people known only from the Internet. First, the popularized picture of online strangers as online pedophiles searching for children online is presented and contradicted to empirical evidencefrom actual Internet-initiated sexual crimes with minors. Next, the chapter focuses on findings from the general population of young Internet users and shows the typical meetings with online strangers as an activity which mostly happens among adolescentpeers and only in a minority of the cases results in negative outcomes. Lastly, the focus shifts to a description and discussion of the nature of such negative experiences based on both quantitative and qualitative data. The consequences of the inaccurate media portrayal of online strangers are also discussed, as well as future directions for research in this area.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AN - Psychology
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0184" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0184: Assembling an Interdisciplinary Team for the Research of Internet and New Media</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2015
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Living in the digital age: Self-presentation, networking, playing, and participating in politics
ISBN
9788021078109
Number of pages of the result
17
Pages from-to
78-94
Number of pages of the book
218
Publisher name
Masarykova univerzita
Place of publication
Brno
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