Bullying in era of social media is subject of book by Michigan State …

“‘The New Bullying’ explores how laws, lawsuits, computers and news coverage have changed bullying forever,” said Oswald. “From band hazing to bullying in the workplace to bullying in schools and cyberspace, it details the changes that continue to plague this age-old issue.”

Dozens of people were interviewed for the project, including Michigan State faculty members with expertise in the field, the head of a bullying treatment program at William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, and “students and their parents who have experienced bullying firsthand,” Oswald said.

In a posting on the project’s website, student Allen Martin said class members interviewed students from Dearborn’s McCullough-Unis School who were visiting Michigan State on a journalism project of their own.

Eight-grader Mirvat Chammout said verbal cruelty is the form of bullying she encounters most often.

“I’m saying, ‘Why me? What did I do to them?’” Mirvat said in a video-recorded interview. “I feel sad. I feel alone in the world.”

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