Zagrożenia internetowe dla młodzieży – klasyfikacja, skala występowania w Polsce oraz profilaktyka

Abstract

In the time of COVID-19 pandemic and prolonged remote education, the issue of youth safety online is of particular importance. Building on international literature, the article presents the classification of internet threats based on the 4Cs model, and then analyses in detail four issues most frequent in the public debate: exposure to online pornography, sexting (sending intimate materials among young people), cyberbullying (peer violence with the use of electronic media) and internet overuse (internet addiction). The following scheme was adopted for each of them: defining the problem, assessing the scale of its prevalence in Poland on the basis of the latest available data and selected prevention proposals.