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Resent-From: <d004620@polito.it> From: Pew Research Center Internet Project <info@pewinternet.org> Date: 22 ottobre 2014 18:17:38 CEST To: <demartin@polito.it> Subject: New Report: 4 in 10 internet users have been harassed online Reply-To: Pew Research Center Internet Project <info@pewinternet.org>

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OCTOBER 22, 2014 Online Harassment

Harassment has become a common part of online life. Fully 73% of adult internet users have seen someone be harassed in some way online and 40% have personally experienced it. Young women experience particularly severe forms.

Online adults who witnessed harassment said they had seen at least one of the following occur to others online: 60% of internet users said they had witnessed someone being called offensive names 53% had seen efforts to purposefully embarrass someone 25% witnessed someone being harassed for a sustained period of time 24% had seen someone being physically threatened 19% said they witnessed someone being sexually harassed 18% said they had seen someone be stalked

Internet users who have personally experienced online harassment said they were the target of at least one of the following online: 27% of internet users have been called offensive names 22% have had someone try to purposefully embarrass them 8% have been physically threatened 8% have been stalked 7% have been harassed for a sustained period 6% have been sexually harassed

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