Abstract
Cyber-harassments on social networking sites have become an everlasting issue in present situation and women using Facebook have been found as the victim of these harassments (Choja & Nelson, 2016). Intended to identify the harassment patterns on university-going female Facebook users of Bangladesh by taking the Muted Group Theory and the Standpoint Theory as theoretical frameworks, this descriptive study has surveyed 307 female university-going Facebook users from five universities of Bangladesh through online. Findings of the survey show that 61.9% of the university-going female Facebook users of Bangladesh is being victims of different types of harassments on Facebook in different frequencies by different types of people according to their relation with them. Moreover, 84.21% of them have never taken any steps to stop these harassments, mostly because they don’t know where to seek help and what is the actual procedure. Findings of the survey also portray the lack of confidence and communication gap between victims of these types of harassments and law enforcing agencies of the country.
Keywords: harassment on Facebook, sexual harassment, cyberbullying, cybercrime, universities of Bangladesh
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To cite this article: Mridha Md. Shiblee Noman, Harassment experiences of university-going female Facebook users in Bangladesh, Journal of Journalism and Media, 4, pp.17-33, 2022.
