Minchul Kim

Mr.Padgett
ENGL 1102
March, 10
th
2014

Annotated Bibliography
Inquiry: How bad is our cyber bullying problem?
Proposed thesis: Cyber Bullying is a problem within social media and actions needs to be taken
Francine Dehue, Catherine Bolman, and Trijntje Vllink. CyberPsychology & Behavior. April
2008, 11(2): 217-223.
This article has tremendous amount of information and charts about cyber bullying. It
includes numerical values of how many were cyber bullied, how they were bullied (from
what source), and what they did after being cyber bullied. The author took 31 primary
schools, and six secondary schools for the survey. I found it quite interesting they
surveyed children in the younger side being that I also am looking to see how our
younger people will be affected by social media and cyber bullying. The statistics of the
results are quite amazing and I can even relate to some of these things when I was
younger. It is said from the article that many of the students have been bullied by MSN
(Which I can relate to any other Instant Messaging sites). Then the article shows the
reactions to cyber bullying. Although a major portion of the students have replied that
they were not bullied, the next highest reaction is to pretend to ignore it. This answer
choice is interesting, pretending to ignore the bullying basically means they are taking in
the bullying and is affecting them somehow. Not only that, can you really ignore bullying?
Although people may say they ignore a lot of things, can you really completely ignore
something that you forget it completely? There is a lot of information that is provided
from this source and this will help me prove my thesis.

David D. Luxton, Jennifer D. June, and Jonathan M. Fairall. Social Media and Suicide: A Public
Health Perspective. American Journal of Public Health: May 2012, Vol. 102, No. S2, pp. S195-
S200.
The intro to this article and what was found was really surprising. For information, the
author searched up online keywords that related to suicide. The first few were factual
information about suicide and even sites that provided help about suicidal thoughts, but
then there were social media sites like chat rooms that allow people to talk about their
thoughts and were pro-suicide (meaning sites that encouraged suicide). These results
were very shocking to me, although I did somewhat expected sites like these, but were
not aware that lot of people indeed go to these sites. The author has also found a link
between internet and social media use to suicidal rates in countries by using information
from World Health Organizations and the United nations Development Programs Web
sites. Then this article talks about how social media and its negative effect of cyber
bullying is affecting suicides. There is even a term now that link cyber bullying and
suicide and calls it cyberbullicide. Suicide is a serious topic and this will definitely help
for the cause of anti-cyber bullying.
Gwenn Schurgin OKeeffee, Kathleen Clarke-Pearson, The Impact of Social Media on Children,
Adolescents, and Families, March 28, 2011, Pediatrics Vol 127 No 4 pp800-804

This article tackles many effects of social media. There is even a term that is used in this
article called the Facebook Depression. This is defined as depression that develops
when preteens and tweens spend a great deal of time on social media sites, such as
facebook, and then begin to exhibit classic symptoms of depression. I can definitely see
some people experience this being that at an adolescent age, acceptance of others and
connection of peers is an important element in their lives now a day. Privacy is also a
concern with social media and cyberbulling. This article explains people are currently
posting too much information online. This can lead to making people more vulnerable to
cyber bullying. The more information a potential cyber bully has, more effect it can lead
to a person who is getting bullied. Not only that, the article uses the term what goes
online stays online meaning pretty much what you put online could be potentially be
public.

Students Perspectives on Cyber Bullying
Patricia W. Agatston, Robin Kowalski, Susan Limber

The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine 1
December 2007

This article also was made to record the results of responses from teenagers about cyber
bullying. The information gathered was quite interesting. It gave a more precise group
that was interviewed such as giving how many of the students are eligible for
free/reduced lunch and how the students financial status may affect cyber bullying. The
results were somewhat expected. The students were asked if they were familiar with
technology and most of them replied that they were very familiar. Most also owned
cellular devices and used social media sites like Myspace. Being a bit more dated, the
form of cyber bullying happened in sites Myspace, emails, and text messages. Then the
question was given, what you can do if you are being cyber bullying. Most students did
not think of getting help from schools at all and most likely report to parents at home if
seriously threatening but would be reluctant to reporting to parents being that is possible
for the parents to limit internet use of the student. This is almost like a cycle, the students
wants to use social media sites like Myspace, but does not want to experience the
negative effects like Cyber Bullying, and they wont seek help cause of the desire to use
internet and Myspace. Could this be a possible problem we have right now that kids are
in a cycle? Although this seems a bit simple and not too likely, it is a possible case.

"What is Cyberbullying." Home. N.p., n.d. Web. 8 Mar. 2014.
http://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/what-is-it/>
This is website made to give awareness as to what cyber bullying is, what it can do, and
how to prevent it. The information is designed to help younger people who use internet
frequently to deal with cyber bullying, Cyber Bullying can happen not only on just
social media websites, but can technically can happen anywhere at any time as long it is
happening online. Some information given here is quite interesting. The reason why
cyber bullying can be severe is that after you receive a hurting message, that message is
still there. It is not as if someone said it once, but its in a text form that can stay or
unable to delete. The reason why cyber bullying happens so much is that you can easily
bully someone without being revealing yourself. The bullies can be anonymous and can
send cyber bullying messages and pictures easily and quickly online.