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cybernetics Philosophy

Technological Bullying

Technology is no longer a peripheral factor in abuse and social harm. It has become part of the mechanism. Research on technology-facilitated coercive control shows how perpetrators use everyday digital tools — smartphones, cloud accounts, GPS services, social media, spyware, smart home systems — to extend surveillance, isolation and intimidation beyond physical proximity, making abuse […]

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Psychology

Institutional Bullying as Behavioural Reflex

Questions could be asked of whether institutional contexts inadvertently invoke bullying, cognitive dissonance and tribal dominance behaviours. Like arguing on social media, people are unconsciously driven in this direction, psychologically and behaviourally “shaped” by their context.