Cyberbullying: Annotated Bibliography

ACM Digital Library

In the ACM Digital Library an article called “Survey of Computational Methods in Cyberbullying Research” was chosen to be reviewed. It was published in 2016 by Homa Hosseinmardi, regarding to the topic of cyberbullying. The reason for choosing this article is that it is recent and relates to the given topic of cyberbullying. The benefit of it being published recently means that the information is not likely to be outdated and still target many problems we face today.

This article noted that cyberbullying is one of the most popular way of bullying among middle schools and high schools, due to the common use of phones and social softwares on school grounds. Cyberbullying can be done within the form of hurtful comments,
2015). The method they used was giving out anonymous questionnaire to students in a particular area and the nine health risk discovered were: increased BMI, lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol misuse, binge drinking, drunkenness, drug use, multiple sex partners and not using condoms (Kritsotakis, G., et al. 2015). They also gave out the results that supported these findings. The key messages authors were trying to get through was that traditional bullying, such as physical and verbal bullying during school years is associated with the the participation in cyber bullying for undergraduate students. Displaying a exitance of bullying from high school to university. Also another point being that traditional bullying and cyberbullying result in different health risks on the victim. Cyberbullying mainly occurs within secondary education and should be targeted for cyberbullying protection. The authors made a conclusion that better defined the points: “Traditional bullying during school years is related to undergraduate students’ engagement in cyberbullying, indicating a continuum between secondary education and university. Health risk behaviours are differentially associated with bullying
A theory that can explain the cyberbullying process from a victim’s perspective. This theory can be used to explain how cyberbullying starts, how it goes throughout and how it ends. Also to investigate how adolescent victims of cyberbullying cope with their issues. Interviews were done one-on-one with 15 adolescent victims that were cyberbullied. Their key finding was that once the victim is targeted, they get involved into a cyberbullying cycle. This cycle begin with them being cyberbullied, losing oneself and then attempting to cope with the problems. When cyberbullying on the victim lessened, the victim moves into the resolving stage, and last, finding oneself (Brandau, M.S. 2016). According to the authors: “The findings from this study give hope that cyberbullying victims can arise from a cyberbullying experience feeling stronger and empowered to help others cope with cyberbullying victimization. Emerging from cyberbullying gives us greater insight into the phenomenon of cyberbullying from the victims’ perspective and can be used to inform public health efforts aimed at preventing and intervening in cyberbullying behaviors.” and this summarize the message that the author want to get through (Brandau, M.S.