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Pheobe Prince moved with her family from Ireland, their country of origin, to begin a new life in the United States, settling in the beautiful western Massachusetts town of South Hadley. When she began attending South Hadley High School, she made a few friends who commented how happy and well-adjusted she appeared. Under the surface, though, she was concealing an intense emotional pain. On a continuing basis, other students at school tormented her on-line calling her an “Irish slut” and “a whore.” Fearing she could no longer endure her peers’ abusive taunts, Phoebe took her life. She was fifteen years old.
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Blumenfeld, W.J. (2013). The Nature of Social Communication Technologies and Cyberbullying. In: Clough, M.P., Olson, J.K., Niederhauser, D.S. (eds) The Nature of Technology. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-269-3_15
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