Cyberbullying: Issues for Policy Makers

Cyberbullying: Issues for Policy Makers - Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 3 July 2007. "Cyber bullying is a term used to describe covert, psychological bullying behaviours among mainly teenagers through email, chat rooms, mobile phones, text messages, mobile phone cameras and websites (Campbell 2005; Brown, Jackson & Cassidy 2006). As a relatively new phenomenon, there is limited research on cyber bullying. The rise of cyber bullying is attributed primarily to increased adolescent access to the internet and mobile phones, facilitated by the anonymity provided by the internet. Willard (2003, cited in Brown, Jackson & Cassidy 2006) noted that its appeal to teenagers comes from five factors."