Ongoing and online: Children and youth's perceptions of cyber bullying

As online communication becomes children’s main way of interacting, focus groups with upper elementary and middle school students found that they saw cyberbullying as a serious problem, which some considered worse than traditional bullying because of anonymity, even though much of it actually happened within their own social groups. The study identifies themes including how cyberbullying is defined, what makes it different, its forms and whether students tell adults, and highlights how complicated the perceived anonymity of the Internet is.