Social and Existential Threats to Personal Security in Virtual Communities: “Groups of Death” and “Columbine Communities”

Liudmila Vladimirovna Baeva
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Liudmila Vladimirovna Baeva: Astrakhan State University, Russia

International Journal of Technoethics (IJT), 2020, vol. 11, issue 1, 1-16

Abstract: The article is devoted to the problem of destructive cyber influence. The objects of the study are “death groups” calling on young people to commit suicide, as well as the “Columbine communities,” which are associated with acts of aggression and murder in educational institutions. The problem of virtual youth communities of destructive type is presented from the positions of philosophical, anthropological, existential, and axiological analysis.

Date: 2020
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