(Cyber)bullying: Norms and resistance in Mediterranean societies and beyond

3rd Interna1onal Conference on (Cyber)bullying (CICY3)

After a first edition held in Nancy (University of Lorraine) from December 5 to 7, 2022, followed by a second edition hosted on June 3 and 4, 2024 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland), the International Conference on (Cyber)bullying (CICY) is preparing its third edition. The conference will take place at Galatasaray University (Istanbul, Turkey) on April 27 and 28, 2026. It continues the scholarly discussions initiated during the previous meetings, which created opportunities to exchange theoretical, methodological, and interdisciplinary perspectives on contemporary forms of bullying, harassment, and cyberviolence. Entitled “(Cyber)bullying: Norms and Resistance in Mediterranean Societies and Beyond,” this edition aims to broaden its geographical scope by emphasizing the specific dynamics of the Mediterranean region, while maintaining its commitment to international and comparative dialogue.

As in previous editions, the conference welcomes papers addressing the mechanisms and effects of bullying, harassment, cyberbullying, and online hate speech, as well as the tools used to combat them. Practical and collaborative workshops will also be included in the program in order to foster dialogue between researchers, practitioners, institutional stakeholders, and civil-society organizations involved in preventing digital violence. For the 2026 edition, four thematic areas are proposed, exploring different dimensions of cyberviolence: its forms and dynamics, vulnerabilities linked to life-course trajectories, issues related to terminology and social recognition, and the evaluation of prevention mechanisms and knowledge-transmission practices. Each theme invites critical and comparative analyses of individual, collective, and institutional responses to digital violence, as well as the tools used to understand and counter it.