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        <journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">INFEDU</journal-id>
        <journal-title-group>
            <journal-title>Informatics in Education</journal-title>
        </journal-title-group>
        <issn pub-type="epub">1648-5831</issn>
        <issn pub-type="ppub">1648-5831</issn>
        <publisher>
            <publisher-name>VU</publisher-name>
        </publisher>
    </journal-meta>
    <article-meta>
                <article-id pub-id-type="publisher-id">INFE136</article-id>
                        <article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.15388/infedu.2009.08</article-id>
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                <subject>Article</subject>
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                        <title-group>
            <article-title>Research into Cyberbullying: Student Perspectives on Cybersafe Learning Environments</article-title>
        </title-group>
                        <contrib-group>
                                        <contrib contrib-type="author">
                                                <name>
                    <surname>STACEY</surname>
                    <given-names>Elizabeth</given-names>
                </name>
                                <email xlink:href="mailto:estacey@deakin.edu.au">estacey@deakin.edu.au</email>
                                                <xref ref-type="aff" rid="j_INFEDU_aff_000"/>
                                            </contrib>
                        <aff id="j_INFEDU_aff_000">Deakin University 221 Burwood Highway Burwood, Victoria, Australia</aff>
                                </contrib-group>
                                                                            <volume>8</volume>
                                <issue>1</issue>
                                    <fpage>115</fpage>
                        <lpage>130</lpage>
						<pub-date pub-type="epub">
                        <day>15</day>
                                    <month>04</month>
                        <year>2009</year>
        </pub-date>
                                                        <abstract>
                        <p>This paper reports a qualitative study designed to investigate the issues of cybersafety and cyberbullying and report how students are coping with them. Through discussion with 74 students, aged from 10 to 17, in focus groups divided into three age levels, data were gathered in three schools in Victoria, Australia, where few such studies had been set. Social networking sites and synchronous chat sites were found to be the places where cyberbullying most commonly occurred, with email and texting on mobile phones also used for bullying. Grades 8 and 9 most often reported cyberbullying and also reported behaviours and internet contacts that were cybersafety risks. Most groups preferred to handle these issues themselves or with their friends rather then alert parents and teachers who may limit their technology access. They supported education about these issues for both adults and school students and favoured a structured mediation group of their peers to counsel and advise victims.</p>
                    </abstract>
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            <label>Keywords</label>
                        <kwd>cyberworld</kwd>
                        <kwd>cybersafety</kwd>
                        <kwd>cyberbullying</kwd>
                        <kwd>Internet</kwd>
                        <kwd>social networking</kwd>
                        <kwd>synchronous chat</kwd>
                        <kwd>texting</kwd>
                        <kwd>mobile phones</kwd>
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