La cyberintimidation à l'épreuve du milieu scolaire québécois : regards d'intervenants sur l'irruption des nouvelles technologies à l'école1

摘要

In Quebec, the emergence of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the school environment regularly prompts media and politics attention, often through the matter of cyberbullying. But what does the milieu itself think about this? To answer the question, we conducted semi-structured interviews with stakeholders from two school boards in two different regions. These interviews turned out to be most instructive. Giving to the stakeholders themselves the task of delimiting the problems brought to the school community by ICT, especially the sudden emergence in school of social networks, we could establish that 1) the rhetoric of cyberbullying finds only a faint echo, if any, among the stakeholders in the field, 2) the problems raised by ICT in school are not associated only to a possible suffering of the youth, and 3) they are also linked to the elusiveness of the phenomenon (what is cyberbullying?), the porosity of the school walls (where does "school" begin? where does it end?), and the total lack of command of a given environment (should ICT be part of socialization in school, or not?). Our research, therefore, warns against too fast and too consensual analyses regarding the fight against (cyber) bullying.