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  • Adina’s Deck— a film about three 8th-graders who help their friend who’s been cyberbullied.
  • Let’s Fight It Together— a film produced by Childnet International to be used in schools to support discussion and awareness-raising around cyberbullying.
  • Odd Girl Out— a film about a girl who is bullied at school and online.
  • At a Distance— a short film produced by NetSafe for the 8-12-year-old audience. It highlights forms and effects of cyberbullying and the importance of bystanders.
  • Cyberbully— a TV movie broadcast July 17, 2011 on ABC Family.It depicts a teenage girl who is subjected to a campaign of bullying through a social networking site.[101]
  • The Casual Vacancy – a young girl is subjected to harassing images repeatedly posted on her Facebook page.
  • The Truth about Truman School, a 2008 children’s book about a middle school girl who is cyberbullied by one of her classmates
  • Chatroom, a 2010 British thriller film directed by Hideo Nakata about five teenagers who meet on the internet and encourage each other’s bad behaviour.
  • Star Wars: Jedi Academy: Return of the Padawan, a 2014 book by Jeffrey Brown features cyberbullying on “Holobook,” a fictionalized Star Warsversion of Facebook.
  • “URL, Interrupted,” an episode of CSI: Cyber, featured a storyline about a girl named Zoe Tan who was watched through her computer via malware and cyberbullied with a website called “Kill Yourself Zoe Tan.”

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