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The news has been abuzz with coverage of teen bullying, as well as tragic bullyingrelated suicides (coined “bullycides”), for several years. This media attention escalated in January 2010, when 15-year-old Phoebe Prince took her own life as a result of relentless torment from her peers (Melnick, 2010), and continues with the recent story of 15-year-old Bart Palosz, who shot himself in August 2013 after enduring years of physical and verbal harassment at school (Hussey & Leland, 2013).
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Walsh, K. (2015). A Gleek Perspective on Slushie Facials. In: Johnson, B.C., Faill, D.K. (eds) Glee and New Directions for Social Change. Youth, Media, & Culture Series. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-905-0_2
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