NUI Galway professor tells conference schools are struggling to stop cyberbullying [advertiser.ie]
- Published: 29 July 2010
NUI Galway professor Keith Sullivan who is attached to the school of education has said that the problem of cyberbullying is escalating in our schools, and it is difficult to stop due to the anonymity of the perpetrator.
Speaking at the annual conference of the International School of Psychology Association in Dublin recently Prof Sullivan identified key areas which were allowing the problem of cyberbullying to grow.
Prof Sullivan blamed the ease with which bullys can use the internet 24 hours a day to harass and intimidate their victims, and he also said that the language being used online was not familiar to adults and this was a problem.
A recently released survey has revealed that more than one in four boys in Ireland say they have been bullied while one in five girls say they have been victims of bullying.
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