WHYY examines bullying in the Internet age

Police in Upper Darby recently used cell phone video uploaded to the Internet to find and arrest a group of teens who taped their torment of a classmate, but the police said they did not discuss the impact the video going viral might have on the victim. Jonathan Singer, an assistant professor of social work at Temple, said videos can act as triggers that remind kids of their trauma and can lead to post-traumatic stress disorder. "Anytime you have a videotape of somebody being bullied and it goes viral then it's re-traumatizing," Singer said. "It can bring further shame and humiliation onto the family, onto the kid, and it lives on forever."
Feb 1, 2011 | WHYY-FM