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14 J. Sch. Violence 1 (2015)

handle is hein.journals/wjsv14 and id is 1 raw text is: Journal of School Violence, 14:1-10, 2015 IR Routiedge Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC Taylor&Francis Group ISSN: 1538 8220 print/1538 8239 online DOI: 10.1080/15388220.2014.968281 INTRODUCTION New Directions in Cyberbullying Research SHERI BAUMAN Disability and Psychoeducational Studies, University ofArizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA AMY BELLMORE Department of Educational Psychology, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA 7his introduction provides an overview of the special issue of the Journal of School Violence. We present a rationale for the need for new directions in cyberbullying research, and include a brief overview of the state of scholarship on this topic. We then include a brief outline of the articles included in the special issue, and point out how they address novel questions and use innovative methods to answer those questions. KEYWORDS cyberbulying, research, innovation, methodology The term cyberbullying was popularized by Bill Belsey in 2003 when he launched the website www.cyberbullying.ca. Although the term had been used in print as early as 1995, 2003 marks the beginning of its widespread use (Bauman, 2011). Very soon thereafter, scholarly articles began to appear in journals (e.g., Beran & Li, 2005; Campbell, 2005; Ybarra, 2004), launching a line of research that has been quite robust. A search of Google Scholar using the term cyberbullying yielded about 19,000 results in August 2014, barely a decade after the first articles were published. Interest has undoubtedly been aroused by the numerous media reports of cyberbullying scenarios that ended tragically. The proliferation of studies, however, has yet to reach a consensus on many points-even the definition of the term is still a subject Received August 21, 2014; accepted September 17, 2014. Address correspondence to Sheri Bauman, Disability and Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. E mail: sherib@email.arizona.edu

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