Anonymity and publicity make cyberbullying more pervasive and devastating than offline bullying

Evidence

Cyberbullying has become the most pervasive and devastating form of peer malevolence as it moves beyond schools to children’s online life. Mobile phones are handy vehicles for sending mean and threatening messages via e-mail, texts and posts of malicious rumors, gossip, and embarrassing photos on social networking sites. These assaults are designed to damage the victims’ reputation and undermine their well-being. The humiliation can be perpetrated anonymously, anywhere, anytime, and publicized for all to see. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 291

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the vault’s work on how anonymity in online channels reduces accountability, echoing Milgrom on reputation systems needing identifiability to sustain trust.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 291