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Using a large-scale dataset from Hong Kong, this study describes the prevalence of cyberbullying and examines how gender and grade level relate to cyberbullying among secondary school students in Hong Kong. Participants were 1,855 students from secondary schools (Forms 1 to 7). Students were given an anonymous questionnaire that included a scale for reporting their experiences of cyberbullying. Responses indicated that 17.8% of students reported cyberbullying and 30.9% experienced at least one type of cyberbullying in the past three months. Curses, insults, and humiliation were the most common types of cyberbullying. Males reported higher rates of bullying and victimization than did females. The overall rates of bullying and victimization peaked in Forms 2 or 3 and in Form 6. Cyberbullying among secondary students in Hong Kong is a serious problem that needs immediate attention. Potential intervention programs should target males and students in Forms 2, 3, and 6. Programs should mainly aim to reduce online curses, insults, and humiliation by students.

The year 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of its access to the Internet. This paper provides a comprehensive review of China’s domestic network governance, with a focus on the ethical meaning of civilization in the Chinese context. It aims to explore how regulating Internet cultural phenomena and building a civilized Internet have become distinctive features of China’s Internet civilization construction. It uses a qualitative research design to analyze China’s Internet development over the past three decades, from coping with technological shocks to autonomously constructing a civilized regulatory system and making China’s Internet civilization propositions. The findings reveal the reasons for forming the current network governance pattern, highlighting Beijing’s unique approach to Internet governance. The study explores the intersection between China’s traditional cultural values and its modern Internet development, providing insights into Beijing’s Internet regulatory efforts and their impact on the global Internet community and making a number of recommendations. Additionally, the practical implications of this study are discussed, along with suggestions for future research directions in the field of Internet civilization construction.

Recent statistics report a significant increase in individuals reporting they have been raped by a stranger they met through the Internet (Internet facilitated rape or IFR). Previous literature has primarily focused on child victims; hence, the overriding aim of this study is to further our understanding of IFR in terms of crime scene behaviour. One hundred and forty-four IFR cases and two comparative samples of age-matched stranger rapists (confidence approach and surprise approach) were coded for 38 crime scene behaviours. Findings suggest that the platforms IFR offenders used to meet their victims were not suggestive of the behaviour they were likely to display. In terms of specific offence behaviours, the IFR and confidence approach rapists were considerably similar, but both samples were comparatively different from the surprise approach rapists. Thus, this may indicate that the method of approach used by a stranger rapist has a significant effect on the subsequent rape crime scene behaviour displayed regardless of any prior contact. A smallest space analysis of the IFR sample revealed three distinct themes of behaviour, criminal sophistication, interpersonal involvement and violence with 71% of offenders displaying one dominant theme. The practical and theoretical implications of the findings are discussed.