A Study of Cyberbullying Detection and Mitigation on Instagram

Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author. Copyright is held by the owner/author(s). CSCW '16 Companion, February 27 March 02, 2016, San Francisco, CA, USA ACM 978-1-4503-3950-6/16/02. http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2818052.2874346 Abstract My dissertation addresses developing applications to mitigate anxiety and depression resulting from cyberbullying. Through the “Continuum of Harm” framework, the technological solutions resulting from participatory design sessions I conducted with adolescents can be categorized through a three-pronged approach: 1) Primary Prevention, in which the cyberbullying incident is prevented before it starts; 2) Secondary Prevention, where the goal is to decrease the problem after it has been identified, and 3) Tertiary Prevention, when intervention occurs after a problem has already caused harm. I investigate the design and effectiveness of technological mechanisms to mitigate cyberbullying through Tertiary prevention on the popular social networking platform Instagram.