Tynes is principal investigator on the Teen Life Online and in Schools Project, which studies race-related cyberbullying.

Tynes was a graduate student at University of California, Los Angeles, studying the relationship between youth identity and the internet.

[5] Through the development of a risk and resilience framework, Tynes has shown that whilst online interactions can threaten the social identify of adolescents, there are strategies to mitigate this.

[1][6] Based on her research, Tynes developed a mobile-driven application that helps young people cope with online racial discrimination.

She showed that the regular exposure to traumatic incidents that involved people of color online can result in poor mental health outcomes.