HEC/News: Cyberspace bullying proliferates at colleges (The Press of Atlantic City)

HEC/News
Wednesday, March 11, 2009

Cyberspace bullying proliferates at colleges
The Press of Atlantic City (NJ) March 9, 2009
By Diane D'Amico

"A professor in the business school at The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, Kraft has been studying bullying in its newest form - cyberbullying - and how the schoolyard bully can easily reach into college classrooms and company boardrooms all around the world..."

"...she did a survey on cyberbullying and cyberstalking among students at Stockton and presented her results at the college's Day of Scholarship last week. A survey was sent to sophomores, juniors and seniors and 471 responded, 74 percent of them female."

"Of those who responded, 10 percent said they had been victims of cyberbullying, and 9 percent said they had been cyberstalked, which was when they feared for their safety..."

"The reported cyberbullying was done through texting, instant messaging, cell-phone calls, e-mail and some postings to a social network site like Facebook. In most cases, the instances involved name-calling..."

Full article available at http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/164/story/423124.html

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