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What is Online Bullying

Handbook of Research on Cyberbullying and Online Harassment in the Workplace
Damaging harassment or threats using electronic means such as email, social media, or text.
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Preventing Cyberbullying and Online Harassment
Jess Nerren (California State University, San Bernardino, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-4912-4.ch022
Abstract
The prevention of online harassment and cyberbullying is an important priority in offices, schools, businesses, and society-at-large. As the world becomes more connected, there is the unfortunate opportunity for harassment and bullying to occur in online environments. Sometimes this is related to offline interactions and sometimes it is solely online. Online harassment and bullying is an unethical and sometimes illegal behavior, which will be discussed in this chapter through the lens of interpretivism and using cognitive dissonance theory and spiral of silence theory. In addition, there are opportunities to proactively take action, which can reduce the likelihood of our online connections turning into harassing environments.
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The Prevalence of Online Violence Against Female Students at a Private University in Malawi
Entails receiving unwanted, offensive, sexually explicit emails or SMS messages; inappropriate, offensive advances on social networking websites or in Internet chat rooms.
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