This study explored how female university students in Sindh Province, Pakistan experience cyber bullying on campus. Data was collected from 120 female students at four universities. The results showed that 45% of students were frequently threatened and blackmailed online but did not report it to their families out of fear. This discourages students from freely using online spaces and disturbs their academic life. Additionally, students lacked trust in law enforcement and awareness of cyber harassment laws. It is recommended that universities organize awareness campaigns and establish bodies to prevent cyber stalking of female students in Pakistan.
This study explored how female university students in Sindh Province, Pakistan experience cyber bullying on campus. Data was collected from 120 female students at four universities. The results showed that 45% of students were frequently threatened and blackmailed online but did not report it to their families out of fear. This discourages students from freely using online spaces and disturbs their academic life. Additionally, students lacked trust in law enforcement and awareness of cyber harassment laws. It is recommended that universities organize awareness campaigns and establish bodies to prevent cyber stalking of female students in Pakistan.
This study explored how female university students in Sindh Province, Pakistan experience cyber bullying on campus. Data was collected from 120 female students at four universities. The results showed that 45% of students were frequently threatened and blackmailed online but did not report it to their families out of fear. This discourages students from freely using online spaces and disturbs their academic life. Additionally, students lacked trust in law enforcement and awareness of cyber harassment laws. It is recommended that universities organize awareness campaigns and establish bodies to prevent cyber stalking of female students in Pakistan.
This study explored how female university students in Sindh Province, Pakistan experience cyber bullying on campus. Data was collected from 120 female students at four universities. The results showed that 45% of students were frequently threatened and blackmailed online but did not report it to their families out of fear. This discourages students from freely using online spaces and disturbs their academic life. Additionally, students lacked trust in law enforcement and awareness of cyber harassment laws. It is recommended that universities organize awareness campaigns and establish bodies to prevent cyber stalking of female students in Pakistan.
understanding cyber bullying in Pakistani context:
causes and effects on young Female university students in sindh Province habibullah Magsi*, nadia agha** and inayatullah Magsi*** abstract This research was carried out to explore how female university students suffer from cyber bullying within their campuses. The data for this study was collected from 120 female students at four universities in Sindh province of Pakistan. The results show that the female students were threatened and blackmailed frequently in the university campuses. While, 45 percent of the students did not disclose such incidents to their families because of the fear of being considered immoral. Therefore, young women prefer to suffer in silence, which not only discourages the students to use cyber spaces freely, but also disturbs their academic life. Furthermore, the findings unveiled that the female students not only lacked trust in the law enforcement agencies, but were also ignorant to the current laws against cyber harassment. Therefore, it is suggested that the universities should organize awareness campaigns as well as introduce a separate body to prevent cyber stalking of young women at the country level.
introduction Cyber or online bullying is a kind of abuse and stalking through electronic communication in which a person is threatened and intimidated. Online harassment can take several forms such as sending abusive emails, threatening, blackmailing, spamming (Ellison & Akdeniz, 1998). The majority of cybercrime victims are women, suggesting that this phenomenon is uniquely gendered (Olumide, Adams, & Amodu, 2015). It affects them profoundly increasing their chances of further exploitation that may lead them to commit suicide (Citron, 2009).
Technological advances in the cyber world are fast spreading in Pakistan. The use of social media has become necessary nowadays; Facebook, Twitter, __________________________________________________________________________________ *Associate Professor of Agril. Economics, Sindh Agriculture University Tandojam, Pakistan **Assistant Professor of Gender Studies, Shah Abdul Latif University Khairpur, Pakistan ***Lecturer of Pakistan Studies, IBA-Community College Khairpur, Pakistan 103
