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identity during the course of the abuse on another party. This is illustrated in the following
definition:
Aggressive, cruel and/or threatening, Repetitive, Characterized as an imbalance of
physical, psychological and/or emotional power. The power advantage may be due
to social status, age, size, ability and/or popularity, and anonymity. (Englander et al.,
2009)
Additionally, the cloak of anonymity, where a person feels anonymous due to the
physical removal of presence, gives a power advantage because the abuse is hard to stop on
the end of the victim. Compounding this issue is the fact that students will not tell adults
about the abuse for fear of losing their access to the electronic communication technology
that they enjoy for other social connections Thus, the offender is able to use, even if
unaware of it, this specific phenomenon to their advantage.
Another interesting implication related to the power imbalances afforded by
electronic communication technology, is the suggestion by Patchin and Hinduja (2011) that
students bully as a result of strain on their lives. In addition other studies have shown that
students who are bullied in traditional settings, then bully online as a result of the
aforementioned strain. Therefore, cyberbullying is a substantially different phenomenon
than traditionally bullying because of this enormous shift in the ability to have a power
advantage and effectively abuse other parties when it most likely would not be possible for
that individual or group in a traditional face-to-face setting.
5.3.2.2 Cyberbullying Includes Both Affective Actions and Affective Consequences
Like traditional bullying, there are consequences to the victim(s)' affect. The
ongoing, and pervasive abuse inevitably has an effect on the emotional well being of the
victim(s). It is this negative consequence to the affect that drives the phenomenon as it is89
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Winn, Matthew R. Analyzing Patterns Within Academic and Legal Definitions: a Qualitative Content Analysis of the Term "Cyberbullying", dissertation, August 2013; Denton, Texas. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc283860/m1/90/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; .