(NOTE: Christina Salmivalli of Turku University will be a Keynote Speaker at the 7th Annual Conference of the International Bullying Prevention Association in Seattle this November. – Mike)
It used to be that the bully in the schoolyard taunted victims face to face. Today, attacks of name calling or being the target of rumors can come via e-mails and text messages, sometimes anonymously, from a teenage cyberbully sitting at a computer or texting on a cell phone long after the school bell has rung and the halls have gone dark. Now, new research is painting a worrisome portrait of those attackers and their victims.