Perceived impact of cyberbullying • Picture/video clip and Phone call were perceived to have more impact on the victim than traditional forms of bullying. • Website and Text message bullying were rated as being about equal in impact to traditional bullying. • Chat room, Instant messaging and Email bullying bullying were believed to have less of an impact than traditional forms of bullying.

Interes granular look. Reminds me of the emotional response that the online rape described by Julian Dibbell in A Rape In Cyberspace invoked in the victims of that incident.

from the 1996 publication, AN INVESTIGATION INTO CYBERBULLYING, ITS FORMS, AWARENESS AND IMPACT, AND THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN AGE AND GENDER IN  CYBERBULLYING: A Report to the Anti-Bullying Alliance by Peter Smith, Jess Mahdavi, Manuel Carvalho and Neil Tippett from the Unit for School and Family Studies, Goldsmiths College, University of London.

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