Cyber Bullying

By Robin M. Kowalski, Patricia W. Agatston, Susan P. Limber

Book Overview

Cyber bullying has become more prevalent through the use of e-mail, instant messages, chat rooms, and other digital messaging systems. It brings with it unique challenges. Cyber Bullying provides the most current and essential information on the nature and prevalence of this epidemic, providing educators, parents, psychologists and policy-makers with critical prevention techniques and strategies for effectively addressing electronic bullying. Provides an empirically-based resource with up-to-date information about the nature and prevalence of cyber bullying through the use of email, instant messages, chat rooms, and other digital messaging systems Examines the role of anonymity in electronic bullying Includes feedback from focus groups and individual interviews with students and parents Offers a handy reference with practical strategies for educators, parents, psychologists and policy makers about prevention and intervention of cyber bullying

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1405159928
• ISBN13: 9781405159920
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Excellent information on cyber bullying AND traditional bullying

This book is an excellent resource for educators and parents because the authors have significant expertise in both traditional bullying and cyber bullying. They have conducted extensive research on cyber bullying, and are able to provide insignt into and context for this emerging youth health risk as a result of their backgrounds. Thus this book allows the reader to understand cyber bullying not just as a "technology problem" but under the broader topic of bullying and relational aggression. My insight from this book is that prevention of cyber bullying among youth needs to be addressed as part of a comprehensive bullying prevention effort in our schools and communities, not as a mere cyber safety lesson.

A must read!

I spent a lot of time researching a good book on the subject of cyberbullying. I found this book to be the most informative, well written, and illuminating. The authors are obviously experts in the field and document their statements with research. They give a broad overview of the subject and then offer concrete suggestions to parents and teachers for combatting the problem. I appreciated their Intervention Tips and I found suggestions there for new ways of monitoring children's use of the computer. This is a must read for any parent -- and educator -- as the authors also include a separate chapter on What Educators Can Do. As a parent, I also found that chapter helped me see how I might work with my child's school to control bullying and cyberbullying.

A book that educators and parents should read!

If you are a parent of an adolescent or an educator, this book is a must read. As the authors have stated, the impact of students using computers, etc. has had not only a positive but also a negative impact on the learning environment and safety issues within our schools. Cyberbullying in its infancy is creating an epidemic of problems. Awareness of the problem, what schools and parents should do to address cyberbullying, how the different states and schools systems view cyberbullying, and current resources are discussed by the authors. It is a compilation of the most current research.