Darren L. (2019). Addressing social media dangers within
and beyond the college campus. Communication Education. (68):3. 371-380. DOI: 10.1080/03634523.2019.1607885

This source spoke on the accessibility of social media profiles and how people communicate. I focused in on the stalking and sexting section where there was specific discussion over the case of Facebook which can also be applied back to other apps like Instagram or Twitter. For students especially they spoke on the significant portion of student activity on Facebook being a variety of social surveillance, including stalking. These sites open the door to an “exposure of personal information of the part of users”. This relates back to the conversations of digital stalking and concerns over it through discussion of accessibility and commonality of stalking. It also shows the availability for one to stalk another, especially on a college campus.

Kanakaris, V., Tzovelekis, K., & Bandekas, D. V. (2018). Impact of anonstalk (anonymous stalking) on users of social media: a Case study. Journal of Engineering Science & Technology Review, 11(2), 126–134. https://doi.org/10.25103/jestr.112.18

This article looks into how intelligence and stalking go hand and hand. It discusses social media as a platform for getting information out there and sharing media. One specific example they give is in the case of Instagram. Instagram is discussed as a place that “offers users to get a photo, edit and share by publishing location information”. This is relevant to the topic of digital stalking in regards to the access given by media platforms. Having a focus on one’s ability to access these location information pieces allows stalking to occur. It also opens the door of discussion of how easily accessible are these points and whether one can find someone or not. This is especially prevalent in a generation of college students that constantly document their lives.

Kircaburun, K., Jonason, P. K., & Griffiths, M. D. (2018). The dark tetrad traits and problematic social media use: The mediating role of cyberbullying and cyberstalking. Personality and Individual Differences. (135). 264-269. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2018.07.034

This article associates the dark tetrad within cyberbullying, cyberstalking, and trolling. They discussed the ideas of PSMU, also known as problematic social media use, and went on to describe each of the three main ideas. Specifically with stalking, the discussion of what cyberstalking looked like in their context was discussed and the ideas of surveillance and unwanted contact was elaborated on. This helps to give more insight into the negative effects and darker side of what digital stalking is and can become.