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Kyle Talarico Adam Padgett ENGL 1102 Feburary, 23, 2014 Annotated Bibliography Inquiry: Is social media as big

of a problem as many news articles claim? Proposed thesis: Social media problems are greatly exaggerated by the news.
Rosen, L.D., et al. "Is Facebook Creating iDisorders? The Link Between Clinical Symptoms Of Psychiatric Disorders and Technology Use, Attitudes And Anxiety." Computers In Human Behavior 29.3 (2013): 12431254. Academic Search Complete. Web. 23 Feb. 2014

Adam Padgett! 4/3/14 2:14 PM Comment [1]: Okay, this is a very interesting and one that I have not read from other students.

The goal of this study was to conclude if there are connections between social media and six personality disorders, schizoid, narcissistic, antisocial, compulsive, paranoid and histrionic. It also studied the correlation between social media and three mood disorders, major depression, dysthymia and bipolar-mania. The study had internet users from teens to adults fill out an online survey. Using this survey they found many correlations between the use of Facebook and several psychological disorders. They were able to link that those with bipolar-mania generally have more friends than those without it, one could infer that those with a high number of friends have bipolar-mania which simply might not be the case. It's not so much that a high number of friends indicates a sign of bipolar-mania but that a high number of friends is a side effect of bipolar-mania. The study has a lot of information connecting the proposed disorders with certain correlations between technology today. The limitations of the study are as follows: the study was performed in southern California which could not be a good representation of the whole country, the study does not clear up the question of cause and effect, it could be that
Adam Padgett! 4/3/14 2:18 PM Comment [3]: Good. I really like this clarification here. Adam Padgett! 4/3/14 2:19 PM Deleted: , Adam Padgett! 4/3/14 2:16 PM Deleted: Adam Padgett! 4/3/14 2:17 PM Comment [2]: Okay, so what does this link mean? Whats the point in pointing this out, in other words?

social media causes these disorders or the disorders cause the subject to reach out to social media.
Adam Padgett! 4/3/14 2:19 PM Comment [4]: Okay this is good engagement here.

STROM, PARIS, and ROBERT STROM. "Growing Up With Social Networks And Online Communities." Education Digest 78.1 (2012): 48-51. Academic Search Complete. Web. 23 Feb. 2014.

This article is about as the title suggest growing up with social media and the possible benefits and deficits of having social media in the development process. Some of the main points of the article are cyberbullying and the negative effect it can have on its victims, how the time of keeping a Facebook profile up to date can lead to less meaningful friendships, and how many youths today are beginning to start blogs instead of private journals. This is important because it shows how much teens today have a problem keeping things private, now not even the most private things, a journal, are being kept private but instead are being put on the internet for everyone to see. It talks of the reliance on texting of todays teenagers and gives percentages on how much texting is used between teenagers. It also points out that there are many users of Facebook that are well under the age of 13.
Adam Padgett! 4/3/14 2:22 PM Comment [5]: Okay this is all interesting, but Im not seeing the connection to your thesis about media over-exaggeration. Adam Padgett! 4/3/14 2:21 PM Deleted: nit Adam Padgett! 4/3/14 2:20 PM Deleted: '

Tazghini, Sarah, and Karen L. Siedlecki. "A Mixed Method Approach To Examining Facebook Use And Its Relationship To Self-Esteem." Computers In Human Behavior 29.3 (2013): 827-832. Academic Search

Complete. Web. 23 Feb. 2014.

This is a study performed using college students as the test subjects and the research was collected online. Its main focus was the relationship between social media sites and the self-esteem of its users. It found that those with lower self-esteem were more likely to
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accept friend requests from people that they don't know and frequently untagged themselves from photos. It also found that the opposite, those with higher self-esteem, found more enjoyment out of posting photos and statuses. The positive uses for social media that were gathered from statements of the participants were mostly centered around keeping in touch with family members or old friends that now lived far away. The negative uses that were gathered from the same question were causing relationship conflicts, loss of privacy, and that it was overall too addicting. Some limitations of the study were that there were only 201 participants and out of the 201 only 136 completed the survey yet the information of the incomplete surveys was still used and still showed the same trends as those that completed the survey.
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Greenberg, Barbara. "8 Problems with Teens and Social Media." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 20 June 2013. Web. 06 Mar. 2014. The article is set up as a letter to a concerned mother, the letter contains eight bullet points. The bullet points consisted of loosing face-to-face interaction, becoming addicted to cell phone use, and sleep-deprivation. She made a special point on how the anonymity of online sites can cause teens to become more aggressive than normal. I plan to use this source as a comparison between the facts and what the media thinks is the problem. It would be impossible to cite examples of the media's ideals without an example of them.
Adam Padgett! 4/3/14 2:26 PM Comment [6]: Okay, this is good to set up a contrast. But I think the nature of your thesis, youll need to include other examples. As long as you have four peer-reviewed sources, you can bring in several other mainstream media articles that you believe are blowing the issue out of proportion, backing up your claim with your peer-reviewed sources, of course. Adam Padgett! 4/3/14 2:27 PM Deleted: O

Whitehill, Jennifer, M., Libby, N. Brockman, and Megan, A. Moreno. "Just Talk To Me: Communicating With College Students About Depression Disclosures On Facebook." Journal of Adolescent Health 52.1 (2013): 122-127. CINAHL Plus with Full Text. Web. 6 Mar. 2014.

This study observes how a student suffering from depression would like to approached if

someone had seen displays of depression on the suffers Facebook page. It found that 93% of the participants were comfortable being approached by a known adult, and approximately half were okay with being approached by a stranger about it. The mode of approach was different from known adults to strangers, the study found that a meeting inperson was preferred for known adults, while e-mail or using a friend as a stepping stone was preferred for strangers. The study was conducted on students ranging from 18 to 19 at a large public university, 60 students in total participated in the study with 60% being female participants. Due to small sample size the results could be a poor representation for a larger group of Facebook users. The study also only choose students with public profiles which means the results could be different for those with more private profiles. Kyle, I think you have complied some really interesting and compelling research here. I think you have done a very good job analyzing these sources and adding your perspectives to those sources. I think I would like to see more in the way of a discussing and drawing a connection from these sources to your future conversation on the mainstream news media. I feel like some of these sources discuss very disparate aspects of social media, and Im not seeing you tie these disparate ideas closely enough. You could run the risk of composing a fragmented and disjointed essay, otherwise. Good work here, but I do need to see that connection, especially in your research paper.
Adam Padgett! 4/3/14 2:30 PM Comment [7]: Okay, does the source address this potential discrepancy?

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