The social media, online and digital abuse and harassment of social workers, probation officers and social work students in Ireland: A national survey

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dc.contributor.authorBurns, Kenneth
dc.contributor.authorHalvey, Olwen
dc.contributor.authorÓ Súilleabháin, Fiachra
dc.contributor.authorO’Callaghan, Elaine
dc.contributor.authorCoelho, Gabriel
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-04T11:52:31Z
dc.date.available2024-06-14T15:47:42Zen
dc.date.available2024-07-04T11:52:31Z
dc.date.issued2024-06-08
dc.date.updated2024-06-14T14:47:46Zen
dc.description.abstractAn estimated five billion people use social media globally. The digital world enables networking and community-building beyond geographical and jurisdictional boundaries, it can facilitate information-sharing and knowledge development, and facilitates speedy access and communications links. On the other hand, digital and social media platforms can also be sources and purveyors of hurt, discrimination, defamation, hatred, abuse, cyberbullying and disinformation. Their increased usage within professional practice has become a nascent area for scholarly debate and research. Our scoping literature search indicated that there are very few studies examining this issue within the profession. This article seeks to address a considerable gap in the research by reporting the findings from an exploratory study in Ireland focusing on social workers, probation officers and social work students. Three hundred seventy-nine participants completed an online survey on their experiences of using social media, with eighty-three (21.9 per cent) participants indicating that they had experienced online and digital abuse and harassment. Facebook, Twitter (now X), and email were the top three sources of abuse and harassment by platform.
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dc.identifier.articleidbcae091
dc.identifier.citationBurns, K., Halvey, O., Ó Súilleabháin, F., O’Callaghan, E. and Coelho, G. (2024) 'The social media, online and digital abuse and harassment of social workers, probation officers and social work students in Ireland: A national survey', The British Journal of Social Work, bcae091 (21pp). https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae091
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcae091en
dc.identifier.eissn1468-263X
dc.identifier.endpage21
dc.identifier.issn0045-3102
dc.identifier.journaltitleThe British Journal of Social Work
dc.identifier.startpage1
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16095
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherOxford University Press
dc.rights© 2024, the Authors. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectCyberbullying
dc.subjectDigital social work
dc.subjectOnline abuse and harassment
dc.subjectProbation
dc.subjectSocial media
dc.subjectWorkplace violence
dc.subjectIntroduction
dc.titleThe social media, online and digital abuse and harassment of social workers, probation officers and social work students in Ireland: A national surveyen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)
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