Slonje, R., Smith, P. K., & Frisén, A. (2013). The nature of cyberbullying, and strategies for prevention. Computers in human behavior, 29(1), 26-32.

Slonje, Smith, and Frisén analyze the definition of various terms related to cyberbullying in light of the current literature. The Slonje et al. research by interviewing some students between the age of 13 and 15 years with cyberbullying experiences to understand how it occurs, copping as well as prevention strategies. The article relates the source of traditional bullying as power imbalances with cyberbullying where individuals propagate bullying through media to people who cannot defend themselves. Power imbalances in cyberbullying refer to the technical ability and authority to ICT (Slonje et al., 2013). The authors find that motives of cyberbullying can be from revenge, boredom or redirection of feelings.

The article offers an essential source of cyberbullying because it provides a deeper understanding of the source through analysis of its development form the traditional form. The information creates a basis for analyzing the motives behind the cyberbullying and therefore intervention strategies. This information, therefore, is essential to develop a study which aims to solve cyberbullying in young people.

Slonje, R., & Smith, P. K. (2008). Cyberbullying: Another main type of bullying?. Scandinavian journal of psychology, 49(2), 147-154.

In the article, Slonje and Smith research to analyze the nature of current cyberbullying using 320 respondents at the adolescent stage. The authors relate the traditional bullying with cyberbullying to understand the various forms of bullying on electronic media. According to Slonje and Smith (2008), cyberbullying is aggression on the electronic media platform. The findings from their research show that cyberbullying occurs more through emails, followed by pictures and video clips (Slonje & Smith, 2008). However, cyberbullying cannot reduce in schools by restricting electronic gadgets because students have the same devices at home.

The article is rich in informing cyberbullying studies because it provides an overview of how it occurs and the rate. The report further shows the platform where cyberbullying happens most, information which is helpful when carrying out research to concentrate more on Emails, photographs, and videos. The authors also offer a direction which one can take to find out a solution to the problem by pointing out that restricting mobile gadgets is not a remedy.

MacFarlane, B., & Mina, K. (2018). Cyberbullying and the Gifted: Considerations for Social and Emotional Development. Gifted Child Today, 41(3), 130-135.

The article analyzes the occurrence of cyberbullying in gifted children and how teachers and parents can help them to overcome the situation. The authors explain why talented children are primary targets by bullies by stating that such people are exceptional in their reasoning. Gifted children cannot judge negatively. However, bullies perceive them to boast their knowledge and good teacher relationship and therefore target them (MacFarlane & Mina, 2018). According to the authors, stakeholders can help such children by making them understand cyberbullying and its different forms and also guide them in creating relationships which can solve such issues.

The article offers valuable information on one of the primary target of the bullies and motivation which can further guide research on the occurrence of such incidences. Researchers can use the report as a lead to understanding how young people cope with bullies and therefore create a strategy of helping them. The article also provides a direction towards helping bullied people from which a study can extend.

Beer, P., Hallet, F., Hawkins, C., & Hewitson, D. (2017). Short Research Report: Cyberbullying Levels of Impact in a Special School Setting. International Journal of Emotional Education, 9(1), 121-124.

This article takes a unique direction to look at how cyberbullying occurs in disabled youths. Although there is little know about bullying on such young people, the authors carry out research using students with different special needs to provide precise details on the unique context. Beer et al. (2017) points out that there is more risk to cyberbullying in young people with special needs compared to their colleagues. The study informs the reasons for high risk as potential retaliate and cyber victimization. From the research, the article provides three social-cultural factors that lead to cyberbullying in those young people including the community, relationship, and identity.

The article is resourceful in cyberbullying studies because it informs and the area which has limited literature about cyberbullying on special needs youths. It provides information on how cyberbullying affects such young people which researchers can use as a lead to investigate the topic further. Also, the article provides a context to analyze the individual factors which heighten cyberbullying in those young people.

Romera, E. M., Cano, J. J., García-Fernández, C. M., & Ortega-Ruiz, R. (2016). Cyberbullying: Social Competence, Motivation and Peer Relationships= Cyberbullying: competencia social, motivación y relaciones entre iguales. Comunicar, 24(48), 71-79.

Romera et al. (2016), in the article, compares the physical bullying with cyberbullying to inform on how social cognition plays a role in modern bullying. The author researches teenagers to understand how social characters affect victims and bullies on the electronic platform. Through their research, Romera et al. (2016), provides that bullies get support from peers and pressure to attain social goals which motivate them on the act. On the other hand, the victims are active o the bullies with motivation to achieve popularity goals and retaliated on low peer acceptance.

The article provides useful information to studies on cyberbullying because it gives the factors that motivate the bullies from both sides. The information is essential in understanding how cyberbullying magnifies from a small action and therefore provides a guide on researches on accelerators of the electronic aggression. Further, the article provides the role which victims play in the bullies and therefore informs studies on strategies to help the affected people.

Bauman, S., Toomey, R. B., & Walker, J. L. (2013). Associations among bullying, cyberbullying, and suicide in high school students. Journal of Adolescence, 36(2), 341-350.

Bauman et al. (2013), carries out research to determine the relationship between bullying, victimization, depression and suicidal behaviors using high school students. The author’s comparison informs that the four elements link each other. Young people experiencing cyberbullying usually attempt to or commit suicide. However, the article points out that there is no direct relationship between cyberbullying and suicide. Through the research, Bauman et al. (2013) find that cyberbullying leads to depression which in turn brings about suicidal thoughts. In most cases, the article provides that depression links cyberbullying with suicidal thoughts in the female. Depression in male creates a relationship between physical bullying in male and suicide.

The article is a useful resource to use in cyberbullying studies because it provides information on the results of bullies. It informs a controversial topic about the relationship between suicide and cyberbullying. The authors, through research, provide reliable information to show that cyberbullying and suicide relates indirectly. The report guides studies on the effects of cyberbullying to consider an in-depth relationship while eliminating suicide.

Lee, E. B. (2017). Cyberbullying: Prevalence and Predictors Among African American Young Adults. Journal of Black Studies, 48(1), 57-73.

Lee (2017), carries out research on college students to identify the common platform of cyberbullying. The study compares information exchanges between mobile phones and the internet to find out which is the common avenue among college students. The analysis shows that cyberbullying among college students occurs commonly through text messages, direct calls, and social sites. Further, the article provides that personal information like photographs which young people share creates a lead towards victimization and cyberbullying.

The article is informative in studies relating to cyberbullying because of the reach information on the accelerators of victimization through electronic media. It provides information to guide research about how victims of bullying contribute to their victimization. The article further serves as a resource to inform studies on the common platforms through which cyberbullying occurs. The results of the research can provide a direction towards investigation on ways to prevent cyberbullying since it offers the significant accelerators of victimization.

Weber, N. L., & Pelfrey, W. V. (2014). Cyberbullying: Causes, consequences, and coping strategies. Lfb Scholarly Pub Llc.

Weber and Pelfrey create an analysis of how the internet and mobile phone communications have changed the way young people discover themselves and communicate to understand the existence of cyberbullying. Weber and palfrey use Parrett’s and children’s experiences on electronic communication to understand the effect on young people. The book develops an explanation of how young people have taken their relationship and conflicts further to electronic platforms where they can be able to express themselves better. According to Weber and Palfrey (2014), young people seek more connections on electronic media where those who experience physical bullying retaliated inform of cyberbullying.

The book contains useful information relating to how cyberbullying has come to exist. It gives an idea of how young people are pulling themselves towards it and how it attracts them to create a strategy on how to control them. This book is resourceful in cyberbullying studies more so those concerned with policies and procedures to control it since it offers information on its foundation and motivators.

Shapiro, Gabrielle L. “62.2 Cyberbullying.” Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 57.10 (2018): S88-S89.

Shapiro analyzes a series of studies on young people’s mental disorders to bring the picture of the extent of cyberbullying as well as strategies to control it. In one of the researches, the article presents information which reveals that over 75 percent of the young people in the justice system experience mental disorders which leads them to violence actions (Shapiro, 2018). The article furthers the study on those mental disorders to show that most of the cases are coming from cyberbullying where the social sites create a risk to the young from all spheres of life.

The article offers a study which is helpful towards research on the urgency and strategies to control cyberbullying. It provides a well-developed analysis to researchers on cyberbullying from its causes and motivators which can serve as a lead on studies related to procedures of managing social media use. This article is applicable in any survey on cyberbullying because it touches all subtopics covered from the rate, causes, motivators, and ways to mitigate it.

Dennehy, R., Cronin, M., & Arensman, E. (2019). Involving young people in cyberbullying research: The implementation and evaluation of a rights‐based approach. Health Expectations, 22(1), 54–64.

Dennehy et al. (2019) research to understand the challenges facing the mitigation of cyberbullying among young people. The researcher uses young people to administer the research process so that they can bring in their perspective on how they understand the strategies to control electronic bullying.  The findings which the article presents reveal that parents, teachers, and guardians do not involve young people when helping them to cope with cyberbullying. The young have their perspective on the best strategies which parents can integrate to come up with a working method.

This article does well in presenting views of young people, significant victims, relating to cyberbullying.  It provides firsthand information on cyberbullying studies to understand how parents and teachers can involve the young to mitigate the situation. Most researches regarding cyberbullying aims at coming with strategies to control such acts and therefore, the article proves to be resourceful with data from the ground.