Article Review #1

Cyberbullying  and Cyberbullicide Ideation Among Jordanian College Students

https://cybercrimejournal.com/menuscript/index.php/cybercrimejournal/article/view/329/98

Although there are many good things that come out of the internet, the internet has many flaws and can be unsafe if you are not careful. Many people are uneducated on the threats that the internet can pose to them. Cyberbullying may not be seen as a major threat when thinking of cybercrime, but it poses a threat to one’s mental health. The people that pose the biggest threat to fall victim to cyberbullying are children.

Cyberbullying causes health risks to teenagers worldwide via social media platforms and gaming platforms, which is used to send harmful messages or threats. Impressionable children can end up sending private information that could cause them hurt to people online. There are many campaigns in place to help combat cyberbullying and end the cycle of violence against children. The campaign, “The New Epidemic at the Time of the Pandemic”, strives to help people that have fallen victim to acts of cyberbullying.

Countries like Jordan have decided to take action against cyberbullying. Jordan started to address cyberbullying as a legal, social and health issue. 

Article Review #2

Factors Influencing the Formation of Intellectual Security among University Students

In this article, a study was done to identify the key factors that have effects on intellectual security for university students during their academic careers. The population of students from Batna 2 University and the University of Jordan were used to show this study. As intellectual security is considered to be one of the most fundamental factors to the motivation levels of people, college students are one of the most affected groups of people of the pros and cons of intellectual security. With the young facing many things that could affect their intellectual security, it is important that they have the help they need from family to guide them in the right direction.

The article uses many different types of social sciences to identify what has effects on the intellectual security of college students. The social science of anthropology is used to show the factors that gender and educational background have on intellectual safety on students by stating

that male students have tendencies to have more independent attitudes which may affect how they perform in group settings, while female students tend to display more signs of needs for a collaborative learning environment. It uses the social science of geography by selecting two countries, Jordan and Algeria for this study.

There were three research questions asked in this article: what factors influence the formation of intellectual security among students, Does the academic level of college students play a role in the students’ evaluations of the factors that influence their intellectual security, and Is there a significant difference in what factors influences students’ intellectual security based on what gender the student is? Surveys were taken by students to show tables of the results.  The results of the first question state that the factors that influence intellectual security are digital media, university environment, family, and social media. As for the second question, the table in the article provides evidence that male and female students are very similar in the impacts they face on intellectual security. The results of the third question also lead to no significant differences. These results show the importance of possibly exploring other factors that could result in a wider variety of results. By using prescriptive analysis, this article uses the data found from this study and provides future actions that should be taken by both the colleges used for this study to better the intellectual safety of their students. Overall this study provided much needed evidence of what factors contribute or are detrimental to the betterment of intellectual security of, not just students, but society as a whole.