Online Lifestyle and Cybersecurity: Risk Factors of Interpersonal Cybercrime on Social Networking Sites

• In Event: Interpersonal Violence in Cyberspace: Cyberbullying, Sexting, Revenge Porn, and Cyber-Harassment

Abstract

Previous interpersonal cybercrime victimization literature on online harassment or online sexual harassment attempted to explain the characteristics of victims via self-reported survey, but failed to demonstrate the characteristics of non-victims. While characteristics of victims are important, it is also crucial to understand factors that prevent people from becoming a victim of cybercrime. Hence, by applying the ideas from lifestyle exposure theory, this study demonstrates factors driven from both victims and non-victims’ everyday lifestyles in relation to three types of interpersonal cybercrime: online harassment, online sexual harassment, and catfishing.

Authors

• Kyung-shick Choi, Boston University

• Hannarae Lee, Indiana University Bloomington

• Daniel LeClair, Boston University