Abstract

VELAZQUEZ REYES, Luz María; REYES JAIMES, Gabriel Renato  and  ESPINOZA AVILA, Laura. From Cyber Violence to Physical Violence: The Day Holk Broke into High School. Educación [online]. 2021, vol.45, n.1, pp.87-103. ISSN 2215-2644.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/revedu.v45i1.40529.

The article reconstructs an episode of school violence perpetrated by a middle school student at an urban public school in central Mexico. The boy was carrying out a challenge from an online group (Holk Legion) he belonged to which consisted of injuring a specific number of people. In fulfilling the challenge, he physically injured five classmates and the fulfillment of its mission, he physically injured five classmates, causing innumerable psychological injuries to the entire school community, including himself, the victimizer. Approximately 30 open-ended interviews were conducted with five teachers, two mothers and one student. In addition, 1,200 articles on the incident from the Facebook account of five students were analyzed. It was concluded that the aggressor, in his search for affiliation and recognition carried out the self-assigned role with the consent of the group administrators and without analyzing the injuries caused by his actions, given that student perspectives on perpetrated violence range from indifference to advocacy of violence, thereby trivializing it.

Keywords : Information and Communication Technologies; ICTs; Online Violence; Recognition; Roles; Responsibility.

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