How citizen journalism can lead to cyber bullying

Tuesday, June 14, 2016 - 11:31 in Psychology & Sociology

Citizen journalism is often seen as a more democratic form of journalism, where the public contributes to the reporting, analysis and dissemination of news. Sociologist and criminologist Agneta Mallén at Lund University in Sweden has studied the phenomenon and shown some of its downsides, including how it sometimes leads to outright cyber bullying.

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