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- Title
Drawing the Threat: A Study on Perceptions of the Online Pervert among Estonian High School Students.
- Authors
Murumaa-Mengel, Maria
- Abstract
This article analyzes Estonian high school students’ (N = 10) perceptions of the online pervert. To get a multimodal and thorough understanding of this phenomenon, 12th graders were first asked to make drawings of online perverts and, later, follow-up in-depth interviews were conducted. A combination of visual and verbal methods helped to reveal that the young did not see themselves sharing any noticeable characteristics with the pervert and tended to construct this ‘otherness’ mainly through psyche, age, nationality and appearance. The definition of a pervert, however, was very ambiguous, as the interviewees perceived the pervert to be, on the one hand, harmful, violent, obscene and insidious, and, on the other hand, a sad, lonely voyeur or a rather ordinary person.
- Subjects
ESTONIA; HIGH school student attitudes; ONLINE sexual predators; PARAPHILIAS; YOUTHS' attitudes; INTERNET privacy; YOUTH
- Publication
Young, 2015, Vol 23, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1103-3088
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1103308814557395