Cyber bullying is the use of information and communication technologies to victimise individuals. This is a growing problem and a headline grabber! (Lodge and Frydenberg: 2007)
Cyber-bullying shows the emergence of age old prejudices and disputes between school children played out via digital technology (although bullying is by no means limited to kids, cyber or otherwise!)
Lodge and Frydenberg stated in their University of Melbourne report on cyber-bullying that; emails, instant messaging, short messaging, multimedia messaging, web logs (blogs), personal websites, chat rooms, discussion boards, online personal polling sites have 'become an intricate part of their [children aged between 11-17] social being' (2007).
Their report which showed:
That girls from independent schools Had the highest rate of cyber-bullying. The report justified these results as a sign that higher socioeconomic groups would have more access to technology and that girls used communication technology more in forming friendships.
Lodge and Frydenberg, (2007), Cyber-bullying inAustralian schools, a profile of adolescent coping and insights for school practitioners, Unversity of Mebourne, vol 24 no1.
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