Cyberaggression and Сyberbullying in Forensic Practice

Abstract

The paper analyzes materials with the phenomena of cyberaggression and cyberbullying on the topic of history, received for a comprehensive forensic psycholinguistic study on the example of the cases received by the Moscow State Budgetary Institution “Moscow Research Centre”. The aim of the work is to describe the structural and the content characteristics of the information material with signs of cyberaggression. The structural characteristics include the features of the communication process, such as the function of an addressee and an addresser, the type of a message, the encoding and the channel of information, the purpose and the result of communication; the content psychological characteristics, taking into account various options for cyberaggression (flaming, trolling, hating, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, etc.), are the following: the type of the communicative situation presented in the material, the methods of psychological influence, the socio-psychological orientation of the material. The characteristics presented in the article will allow structuring the conduct of psychological and linguistic research on information materials in line with the study of cyberaggression, expand the possibilities of a comprehensive forensic psycholinguistic study on information materials.