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SafeGuard: A Web-Based Application to Guard Against Cyberbullying
Author(s) -
Mudasser F. Wyne,
Jigyasaa Sood,
Christopher Kempton,
Thuyet Dao
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of education and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1927-5269
pISSN - 1927-5250
DOI - 10.5539/jel.v10n4p63
Subject(s) - guard (computer science) , social media , psychology , safeguard , internet privacy , intervention (counseling) , computer science , social psychology , world wide web , political science , psychiatry , law , programming language
In this day and age there is a consistent rise in the usage of social media amongst all age groups thus, more people have established an online presence that makes these users more susceptible to becoming a target of cyberbullying. SafeGuard is a web-based application that monitors social media accounts and detects critical keywords such as “hurt”, “die”, etc., and phrases to detect cyberbullying threats and emotional distress in a person’s social media post. Once a monitor discovers a match, an alert is generated for the end user in which they can initiate human intervention. This application is a new strategy for academic institution that allows them to be proactive rather than reactive against cyberbullying.

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