摘要：AbstractCyberbullying has recently emerged as a widespread and new form of bullying and harassment. It refers to the use of information and communication technologies, specifically mobile phones or the internet, to support deliberate behavior to harm others. Cyberbullying and bullying are partly similar phenomena: they share the intention to attack an other person who is vulnerable and cannot properly defend himself, but they differ for many other aspects: (1) the aggression forms - the damage is often physical or verbal in bullying, while it is textual or visual in cyberbullying and it refers to the social image, the dignity and reputation instead of to the physical body; (2) the “visibility” in bullying compared to the partial “invisibility” and anonymity in cyberbulling, (3) the large audiences in a peer group on internet compared with the small groups that are the usual audience in traditional bullying. In the present paper features of cyberbullying that distinguish it from most traditional forms of bullying will be analyse. On the basis of emerged differences operational suggestions and strategies for dealing with minors in the two different conditions will be presented both in schools and in clinical setting.
关键词：Bullying;Cyberbullying;Aggression;Internet peer group
