Cyberbullying Among Urban Teens

Abstract

Cyberbullying is said to be a way of bullying in cyberspace, especially on social media. And the perpetrators are urban teenagers because of technological advances. Cyberbullying occurs because of the convenience in cyberspace, but in Indonesia, this case is still underestimated. Using Henry Tafjel's theory of social identity, there are three theories of social identification, social categorization, and social comparison. The methodology used is qualitative, with a descriptive research type and a genomerology paradigm. The informants used two teenagers, with the type of informant above 17 years old and under 20 years old living in Surabaya. This research was conducted in Surabaya which was selected by snowball. Collecting data using inductive interviews and literature study. While the data analysis techniques used transcripts, data reduction, data presentation, and concluding.