A new study of college students in India has shown that while internet access has become central to academic life, it has also opened the door to troubling forms of unethical or illegal behavior online, ranging from harassment and hacking to the misuse of institutional networks. The umbrella neologism for this behavior is cyberdeviance. The results of a survey of some 264 students are discussed in the International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management.
College students’ cyberdeviance linked to economic anxiety and job insecurity
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