Looking at cyberbullying from different perspectives and roles: an online process drama research with Turkish participants

ABSTRACT

This research explores how a process drama workshop on cyberbullying can be carried out in digital space with adults, aiming to understand participants’ perspectives on cyberbullying and the workshop itself using online tools. During the research, process drama was used as a participatory research method. Participants from various cities in Türkiye created a dramatic fiction collectively and performed improvisations on cyberbullying. They evaluated the process drama workshop, and various drama strategies, and Web 2.0 tools employed during the workshop. They discussed how process drama can help in understanding cyberbullying issues, and they proposed various solutions to address the problem.

KEYWORDS:

• Online process drama
• cyberbullying
• drama as a participatory research method
• collective construction of dramatic fiction
• Web 2.0 tools in drama workshops

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 This workshop was previously implemented twice, once with high school students and once with adults. The feedback from these two workshops was reviewed, and the workshop that is the subject of this article was decided to be conducted with this group. In accordance with the nature of process drama, there were some changes in the workshop, and the dramatic fiction developed in a different way. Nevertheless, the strategies and digital tools used in this workshop share some similarities with the previous workshops.

2 Pseudonyms were used instead of the real names of the participants in the study.

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Gökhan Karaosmanoğlu

Gökhan Karaosmanoğlu specialises in drama in education. His research studies focus on creative drama, process drama, forum theatre, cyberbullying, drama in museums, digital drama practice, and drama with refugees. He facilitates drama and theatre workshops on social problems with different age groups. He is currently a faculty member in the Department of Basic Art Education in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Ankara University, Türkiye.