For my critique paper, I have chosen to critique “Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard” by Justin W. Patchin and Sameer Hinduja. This article was about the national problem that mostly affects adolescent students around the world on a daily basis. Bullying has been around for a very long time, researchers have been studying what goes on in our school systems, and how bullying has and is increasing in our school systems. Through decades of research that have been achieved we can look back and see how bullying has evolved from just being in our school systems to being in our streets, and finally in our pockets and social medias. In the article “Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard” I have seen the best definition of bullying I could find, “Bullying
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With the advances in technology this problems seems to grow and find newer and more efficient ways to effect their targets. The authors of “Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard” have displayed a very good statistical view on why bullying has a very negative effect on adolescent students, and how cyber bullying has advanced the skills of those bullies. In the article “Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard” the authors had some interesting points such as, bully’s who continue their actions could lead them down a darker patch to criminal deviance and other criminal activities. Another topic that I agree with is that, cyber bullying is only going to grow with the advances in technology, via emails, text messages, social media. The last topic that I want to elaborate on of that the authors has talked about in their article is the affects on the victims of bullying and cyber bullying. In the article, the authors have stated that they expect the cyber-bullying phenomenon to continue growing though the years, I agree with the statements made in the article by the authors because of the facts given in the article compared to the facts that is available today. In the article the authors talked about the availability of electronics such as cell phones and home computers and how they are growing with every passing …show more content…
In 2002 there were a total of around 665,065,014 people that were registered to have Internet service, this number is substantially higher today totaling around 3.4 billion people that is about 46% of the world compared to 2002, when 10% of the world only had Internet. In todays society instead of using old messaging software like ICQ, or AOL Messenger or any other messaging software, we have Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Snap Chat, Instagram, and many more things that make it easier for people to connect with each other which can ultimately help bully’s reach there intended target much easier. Research gathered from NetSafe shows “almost one in five teenagers had experiences cyber bullying” (NetSafe 2012, Cyber-Bullying Grows
With the advances in technology this problems seems to grow and find newer and more efficient ways to effect their targets. The authors of “Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard” have displayed a very good statistical view on why bullying has a very negative effect on adolescent students, and how cyber bullying has advanced the skills of those bullies. In the article “Bullies Move Beyond the Schoolyard” the authors had some interesting points such as, bully’s who continue their actions could lead them down a darker patch to criminal deviance and other criminal activities. Another topic that I agree with is that, cyber bullying is only going to grow with the advances in technology, via emails, text messages, social media. The last topic that I want to elaborate on of that the authors has talked about in their article is the affects on the victims of bullying and cyber bullying. In the article, the authors have stated that they expect the cyber-bullying phenomenon to continue growing though the years, I agree with the statements made in the article by the authors because of the facts given in the article compared to the facts that is available today. In the article the authors talked about the availability of electronics such as cell phones and home computers and how they are growing with every passing …show more content…
In 2002 there were a total of around 665,065,014 people that were registered to have Internet service, this number is substantially higher today totaling around 3.4 billion people that is about 46% of the world compared to 2002, when 10% of the world only had Internet. In todays society instead of using old messaging software like ICQ, or AOL Messenger or any other messaging software, we have Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Snap Chat, Instagram, and many more things that make it easier for people to connect with each other which can ultimately help bully’s reach there intended target much easier. Research gathered from NetSafe shows “almost one in five teenagers had experiences cyber bullying” (NetSafe 2012, Cyber-Bullying Grows