Resumen de Combating Cyberbullying in Nigeria: A Case for the Media and Information Literacy City
The value neutrality of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) affords users the luxuryof determining the gratification to be derived from technological devices usage, whether positiveor adverse. The outbreak of menaces such as cyberbullying, which is an adverse externality of technology’svalue neutrality, has necessitated the development of country-specific laws, establishedto address cyberbullying. While acknowledging the roles of these antibullying policies and othermultidisciplinary control measures, either recommended or already in use, this study investigatedthe prevalence of cyberbullying in Nigeria and its control measures, through a review of studies thathad been conducted in Nigeria. From the review, it was noted that most of the available studieswere conducted in educational silos and focused on legal and psychological control models withoutrecourse to the socio and techno-cultural context of cyberbullying as a derivative of informationsociety. This article, within the context of information society, recommends media and informationliteracy education as a tool for addressing cyberbullying.
