Construction of a secure and safe society: a gender perspective

Abstract

This paper examines how traditional stalking changes its form into cyberstalking by penetrating ICT among people, and what cyberstalking has risk for people's daily lives, in focusing on gender and ICT. Furthermore, we also examine how ICT obfuscates the boundary between real space and cyber space: because online communities can function as "social reality" and imprint people with specific norms. ICT have some kind of influence on people's formation of social norms through the Internet.