ABSTRACT
Abbie, who we met in Chapter 4, explains how much worse her experiences with bullying would have been had they occurred online. In Chapter 8, we shared the perceptions of those who played various bystander roles in face-to-face bullying. Chapter 9 specifically focuses on the role of online bystanders in cyberbullying and how their action, inaction, decisions, attitudes, and inter-relationships with the bully or victim influence their behaviour. Given the explosion of digital technologies and everyday communication via online platforms, the phenomenon of bullying has unfortunately traversed into this realm. In the lives of young people, everyday activities occur across both face-to-face and online environments. Therefore, it is essential to equip them with the necessary skills to be safe and support others to be safe in both environments. This chapter begins by distinguishing between face-toface and cyberbullying then focuses on the cyberbystander and the newly coined term of a ‘hybrid’ bystander who moves between face-to-face and online environments (Price et al. 2014).
