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Annotated Bibliography

How Cyberbullying Has Taken a Turn For The Worst

Kameron Rickard
Professor Malcolm Campbell
English 1103
16 March 2016

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Fagbenle, Temitayo. Online Shaming A New Level of Cyberbullying For Girls. National

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Public Radio. National Public Radio, 7 Jan 2013. Web. 1 Mar. 2016
This news source reveals a new level of cyberbullying that is taking place online and is
directly related to females. This source writes about how various teenagers have begun living
and spending their entire lives online. They have started to live through social media websites
such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. The extent in which cyberbullying has
gone to is astonishing, writes a sixteen year old girl named Temitayo Fagbenle. What is
happening online is something that shames women and is just like The Scarlet Letter in the
seventeenth century. Today, explicit pictures of girls are being posted everywhere on social
media to get reactions from their peers and harm the female population. For example, an intimate
video was posted by a male of his girlfriend, who had no idea she was being recorded. Temitayo
tells NPR that she sees posts like this happening every other day and it truly is ruining females
lives. This new level of cyberbullying has taken a toll and has begun to transform into something
that is occurring everyday.
The interviewee in this source is a sixteen-year-old girl named Temitayo Fagbenle. She
is a rookie reporter with WNYC who now majors in Chillness with a minor in Social Justice. She
is a young reporter for lots of articles such as Teens are Losing More Sleep Than Ever and
The Evolution of Marijuana Culture. She also spent time reporting about police brutality in

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many times, it looks effortless!
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Comment [2]: Make sure you quote this if
this is what Temitayo is saying.

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this because it is a book
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Comment [4]: Young girls or old girls?
What is the demographic?
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little confusing!
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the Bronx. This source was published in 2013 so the information is up to date and pertains to my

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topic. The audience this article is intended for is teenagers and young teens with the purpose of

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Comment [7]: What is chillness??

addressing the serious issues that social media plays with cyberbullying, a main part in my paper.
This newspaper source will fit very well into my paper and I plan on using it in my final
project. I really liked how this source interviewed a teen at such a young age who shared her own

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Comment [8]: Great paragraph! Love how
you evaluate the source and tell me more about
it rather than saying it was good
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experience. The information in this source will provide great examples for my final project and
really let young teens know the dangers of cyberbullying and the affects it has on them.
Li, Qing. Cyberbullying in Schools. Sage Journals 27.2 (2006): 157-70. ArticleFirst. Web. 3

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Mar. 2016.
This scholarly article sets a major focus on adolescences experiences with
cyberbullying. The article introduces the readers with an insight on how cyberbullying has grown
due to the unfolding of new technology in classrooms. Bullies use this new technology, such as
laptops, to humiliate and harm their peers, something the teachers were unaware of.
Cyberbullying has also grown into a form of sexual harassment, especially towards females. The
primary experiment raised in this source is the link between cyberbullying and the different
genders (male or female) and whether or not one gets bullied/bullies more than the other, along
with how they react. The subjects of this study were randomly selected middle-schoolers because
this is the age in which young teenagers are more vulnerable. The research and study found that
more females (25.6%) than males (25%) have been cyberbullied. In addition, more males
(40.8%) than females (27.8%) were bullies themselves. Another large focus in this article is the
fact that cyberbullying is occurring during school hours and is beginning to spread more rapidly.
This source is a peer-reviewed, scholarly article by Qing Li. Qing Li is an associate
professor of educational technology at the Faculty of Education, University of Calgary. Dr. Li

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Comment [9]: Seems like the target is only
females, not males at all. Thats sad.
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Comment [10]: The sentence before this
one was a great way to lead into the content of
the source. As you can see in my previous
comment, I touch on the fact that females are
the target. Great way to leave the reader
anxious and ready to read.
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professor, to an assistant professor at the University of Calgary to a professor herself. This study

Comment [13]: Maybe merge these two

sentences together the first one is too short. If
you cant merge these two sentences together,
then add something to the first sentence so its
not so short.

cites a good amount of sources from 2003 and 2004, so this information is still pretty recent and

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relevant today. This article was just right for what I was looking for. It offered a lot of

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information that is directly related to my topic of cyberbullying. I do think it would be too hard

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specialized in educational technology. Dr. Li has lots of experience from being only a visiting

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to understand for students younger than college level reading due to some of the language, facts,
and the study itself. It provides a lot of statistics that younger teenagers might not understand.
This article was entirely fact with the addition of an actual experiment involving real life middle
schoolers. Dr. Li doesnt provide her own opinion, but you can tell where she stands in the way
she writes, which is against bullying. The positive aspect of this article is that there is a broad

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introduction before the actual study is discussed. This allows for the readers to understand the
main focus of the article. One thing I would have wished to read and learn about was where the
author herself stood on the topic and why she wrote about it. I believe this would be helpful in

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which I can relate my thoughts and opinions to hers. This source does a great job in citing other
sources rather than using information Dr. Li already knew; this way I can search those sources
and learn more if I intended to.

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After taking lots of time to evaluate, read this source, and learn more about the author
herself, I have learned a lot about my topic that I didnt know before. This is a good way to tell
that the article I chose was very helpful. It provided a different approach to cyberbullying in
which it didnt just focus on why its bad, but it branched off into an experiment based off males
and females and the differences between the two. Learning that males are more likely to bully
than females and females are more prone to being bullied is really insightful. Although I am
unsure of using this source in my actual project, I can definitely see some facts from the

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introduction and experiment showing up in my later paper.

Cyberbully. Dir. Charles Biname. Perf. Emily Osment and Kay Panabaker. ABC Family, 2011.
This film, created in 2011, follows a seventeen-year-olds life and how she encounters
cyberbullying. Teen girl, Taylor Hillridge, played by Emily Osment, grows up with a single

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of the film.

mother and younger brother. She isnt the most popular in school and is a little awkward around

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others, constantly getting picked on by popular student, Lindsay. Taylor has two best friends,
Samantha and Cheyenne that in the end push her to her breaking point. For Taylors seventeenth
birthday, her mother gave her a laptop and she couldnt be more excited to finally have freedom
online. There is a popular new social website, Cliquester, that she decided to join. When Taylor
gets a chat from a random guy, the film takes a turn. Both her best friends assume he is fake,
especially when he starts spreading rumors about her online. This results in severe verbal abuse
online by other students and leads Taylor into severe depression. After posting a video to her
peers saying she is going to commit suicide, she tries to overdose on pills, but her mother catches
her. In the end, Samantha, one of her best friends, admits to creating the fake James account and
her mother goes to the school in hopes of enforcing rules against cyberbullying.
The director, Charles Biname, is a Quebec director who began work as an assistant
director with the National Film Board of Canada. Charles Biname has directed lots of movies as
well as winning awards such as the Golden Screen Award and the Crystal Globe. This film does
a great job showing the affects of cyberbullying on teens and what it can do to a family. This
movie was published in 2011 and was directed towards teenagers and young adults to show them
the severity of bullying. This source fits perfectly for my topic and defines a lot of things I hoped
to talk about in my paper, such as cyberbullying leading into depression and suicide. I plan on
using this film in my final project to provide an example of situations where cyberbullying takes
place.
I found this film very helpful in my research about cyberbullying due to the in depth story
of a teen who encounters severe harassment online. This film really allowed me to see firsthand
how cyberbullying can tear ones life apart and how effective it is, which is what I was looking

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for before I watched it. This source will be an essential example in my final project and I plan
on using specific scenes from this movie to get points across.
Stand For The Silent. Stand For The Silent, 2010. Web. 12 Mar. 2016

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great source for your paper.

The Stand For the Silent organization was created by a group of students at Oklahoma
State University in 2010. This organization was started after a boy named Ty Smalley took his
own life due to retaliation against a bully who had bullied him for years. This organization acts
as way of support for kids of all ages and also works to being awareness to bullying. Kirk and

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source it is, then lead into this sentence. Keep
the repetition you have been using in all your
other parts of the paper.

Laura Smalley are the parents of Ty and their story appears in the film, Bully. They like to
educate other students on how to prevent bullying and make sure it doesnt happen to other
families. This website offers lots of ways to become involved along with being able to donate
and even providing ways to become a sponsor. Stand For The Silent has become one of the most
efficient organizations around the world.
This website is one of the largest anti-bullying organizations and has really spread their
word online to families and friends. This website was published in 2010 so this organization has
made its way in a few short years. I think this website is such a great idea and has brought so
much awareness to bullying and families who didnt know much about it. Kirk and Laura
Smalley work hard to educate other families about the dangers of bullying and offer various
ways to donate and spread the word through the website. This organization is aimed at children,
teens, young teens and adults of all ages in order to get our help and to hopefully clean this world
of bullying. Using this source is going to be a great asset to my final project because I can
provide examples of ways that individuals can get involved themselves and make a difference.
After exploring through this website and learning about this organization, I have come to
realize that it is incredibly helpful. Ive learned that there are so many ways to become involved

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in helping to stop bullying and ways to spread the word. For example, the website offers t-shirts
and other clothing items along with wristbands to help spread awareness. I also plan on using
Kirk and Laura along with their story and how they educated students about bullying.

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