Asst Prof (Sociology Programme), Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Assam downtown University, Gandhi Nagar, Panikhaiti, Guwahati, Assam, India, Email id: drsupu00@gmail.com
The proliferation of social media sites has made stalking a new form of social harassment and potential victimization. The study has thrown light on how stalking is done through social media, its impact on the victims and the coping strategies adopted by the victims have also been discussed. The study also presents 3 brief case studies about stalking incidences. The study is qualitative as well as quantitative in nature. Snowball sampling method and Case study method are well thought-out as the suitable way for collecting the quantitative and qualitative data respectively. Quantities data was collected from the female students of Cotton State University, Guwhati and Tezpur Central University, Tezpur. Total number of respondents for quantities data was 100.
Facebook, Social Media, Stalking, Stalker, Victims, Whatsapp
