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Cyberbullying: Neither an Epidemic nor a Rarity Cyberbullying Research Center

Cyberbullying: Neither an Epidemic nor a Rarity

BlogBy Justin W. PatchinMarch 21, 20138 Comments

If you pay attention to the news reports of cyberbullying incidents (like we do), you would probably think that these inappropriate online behaviors are happening at epidemic levels. When we first started studying cyberbullying over a decade ago, Sameer and I would literally print out any news article we saw that talked about a cyberbullying…

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