Wikipedia: Cyberbullying

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Cyber-bullying
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Cyber bullying (cyber-bullying, online bullying) is the use of electronic
information and communication devices such as e-mail, instant messaging,
text messages, Blogs, mobile phones, pagers, Instant messages and defamatory
websites to bully or otherwise harass an individual or group through
personal attacks or other means, and it may constitute a computer crime.
Cyberbullying is willful and repeated harm inflicted through the medium of
electronic text. Like bullying, cyberbullying involves recurring harm and
can be distinguished from peer harassment as a subset of aggressive behavior
because bullying represents a pattern of behavior committed over a period of
time. The term cyberbullying was first used by Canadian educator Bill
Belsey, creator of the Web site www.bullying.org.

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a.. 1 Examples of cyberbullying
b.. 2 Issues specific to cyberbullying
c.. 3 Research
d.. 4 Further reading
e.. 5 See also
f.. 6 External links

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Examples of cyberbullying
One of the more recognized instances of cyberbullying occurred when Eric
Harris, one of the killers in the Columbine High School massacre, put up a
web site where he discussed murdering his fellow students, although no
action was taken against Harris by the authorities at the time. [1] Another
notable example was the Star Wars kid whose classmates uploaded illegally
obtained video footage of him posing as the Star Wars character Darth Maul
onto Kazaa in 2003. The footage was downloaded extensively and modified
causing the subject extensive embarrassment resulting in treatment in a
psychiatric hospital.

People Magazine (March 21, 2005) reported on a case involving a 13 year old
boy who committed suicide as a result of cyberbullying. Classmates had been
taunting and teasing him about his size via instant messages for about a
month.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberbullying

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