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I’ll Stand by You

Glee Characters’ Multiple Identities and Bystander Intervention on Bullying

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Over its five seasons, Glee has depicted various forms of bullying includingzsocial ostracism, cyber-bullying, physical threats and violence, and the terrible psychological cost for offenders, victims, and bystanders. In each of these instances, major characters served as bullies, victims, and bystanders to these social acts of aggression.

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Dillon, K.p. (2015). I’ll Stand by You. 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_3

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