Cyberbullying is uniquely devastating because its abuse is permanent and inescapable

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. … Verbal abuse posted online can remain there permanently, to be viewed anywhere, anytime, by anyone. There is no way to escape from it physically or to know how to deal with a faceless attacker. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 291

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s past work on toxic noise and ambient hostility — Both examine how pervasive, unescapable environmental threats (loud sound, permanent online abuse) corrode well-being differently from one-time assaults.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 291