¹Okon Marguerite KOFFI – DJAH,²Benoît Kouakou Oi KOUAKOU

^1,2Department of Information and Communication Sciences, UFR Information, Communication and Arts (UFRICA) Felix Houphouet-Boigny University of Abidjan

This article analyzes some understanding outlines of cybercrime considering its complexity and its practice by the youth population in Côte d'Ivoire for media education. On the basis of conventions, guides and scientific publications on the phenomenon, a thematic content analysis was conducted in order to identify the axes that structure the study in response to the research objective. This problematic is based on the socio-ecological model of Sallis and Owen (1998). According to the Preamble of the Council of Europe's Convention on Cybercrime, known as the "Budapest Convention" of November 23, 2001, which entered into force on July 1, 2004, cybercrime is crime in cyberspace. In the absence of a legal definition of the phenomenon, there is confusion between crimes germane to cybercrime and cybercrime itself. The Internet, a channel of cyberspace, is presented as a web, a mesh on a planetary scale that limits the control mechanisms and reveals the difficulties of quantifying the phenomenon. Through a vicarious learning among young people in Côte d'Ivoire, cybercrime colloquially called “broutage” (grazing) is a social malaise, despite the response of the Ivorian state. The use of ICTs requires education to make each user responsible for understanding, using, defending and enjoying them, because the media world is experiencing an unprecedented shock.

Communication, cybercrime, media education, ICTs, youth.

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