The DLSU-Social Development Research Center will launch its report titled "How Filipino Youth Identify and Act on Bullying and Harassment on Social Media: Report Launch" on July 8, 2022, from 10:00 to 11:30 am via Zoom.
This report approached the question of bullying and harassment on social media with the premise that these are communicative and socially constructed. It drew from online in-depth interviews with 152 Filipino youth aged 15-24 from four sites across the country: Manila (for National Capital Region), Batangas (for Balance Luzon), Negros Occidental (for Visayas), and Misamis Occidental (for Mindanao) to understand and spotlight what young Filipinos consider as constitutive of bullying and harassment on social media, and how they are impacted by and act on them.
The report offers data-driven recommendations for platforms, schools, guardians, and the youth in terms of how social media bullying and harassment can be prevented and its impact for victims mitigated. This launch involves the presentation of the project’s key findings and the viewing of multimedia materials (in Tagalog, Bisaya, and Hiligaynon) produced for the youth, guardians, and the schools.
