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“The Culture of Mean offers a sea change, asking us to reconsider everything we think we know about bullying. Through careful analysis of both public policy and media myths about bullying—that relational bullying is carried out only by girls and that it is more damaging than physically violent bullying, that bullying and suicide are inextricable, that youth inevitably use new communication technologies to cyberbully—Emily D. Ryalls makes clear that our current cultural response to bullying not only is ineffectual but also perpetuates troubling sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia. A cutting-edge and unwavering media analysis useful for media scholars, policy makers, parents, and the countless of us who have both been bullies and bullied.”—Sarah Projansky, University of Utah

The Culture of Mean offers a sea change, asking us to reconsider everything we think we know about bullying. Through careful analysis of both public policy and media myths about bullying-that relational bullying is carried out only by girls and that it is more damaging than physically violent bullying, that bullying and suicide are inextricable, that youth inevitably use new communication technologies to cyberbully-Emily D. Ryalls makes clear that our current cultural response to bullying not only is ineffectual but also perpetuates troubling sexism, racism, classism, and homophobia. A cutting-edge and unwavering media analysis useful for media scholars, policy makers, parents, and the countless of us who have both been bullies and bullied. -Sarah Projansky, University of Utah

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Emily D. Ryalls received her Ph.D. from the University of South Florida. She is an assistant professor in the Communication Studies Department at California Polytechnic State University.

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