Social+Media+and+Teenagers

Directions for posting articles on your group's page:

Post a link to two article/videos/sources you've found that provide interesting, relevant, detailed, and significant evidence about your group's topic. Write a 5-6 sentence paragraph below your link summarizing the key points of the article and also assessing the source's legitimacy. Use the example below as a model

When assessing a source's legitimacy, you want to consider if it is current enough for your topic, if the writer has experiences/education that qualifies him/her as an expert , if the perspective presented is balanced or biased , AND if the article provides relevant/important information.

Example of what you will post for each of the two sources you will contribute to your group:

__NPR story arguing why space exploration is still important--Sybenga__
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National Public Radio interviewed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson about his new book titled: //Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier.// Tyson argues that the idea of space exploration can motivate the best and brightest of future generations to pursue careers in science and math, which will lead to innovations in all fields within science and technology. Because space captures the imagination of the general public, a renewed investment in our space program will cultivate a renewed commitment to the disciplines of science and math. Tyson claims that NASA is severely underfunded, citing the fact that right now, one year of military funding is equal to fifty years of NASA's budget. He also argues that studying problems on other planets (global warming on Venus and the depletion of water on Mars) will help humans to develop creative solutions to similar problems on planet Earth. He also insists that it is imperative to understand the cosmos because Earth is intimately enmeshed in the universe. To illustrate, he notes the relatively small probability of an asteroid crashing into the earth in the next twenty years. Tyson is an expert in the field who recently published a book on the topic, although he takes a strong perspective in favor of the merits of space exploration, without exploring its risks.

Teen Study: Social Media is Positive Experience- Chloe Morakis http://www.npr.org/2011/11/09/142166055/teen-study-social-media-is-positive-experience This clip from NPR explores a lot of general ideas about social networking. Laura Sidel talks about how kids see the negative on some sites, but how they also see and experience friendliness. She interviews some teens, finding that most of them have seen bullying and harassment online, though many have never actually been targets. She gives statistics like 88% have seen others being mean on social networking sites while only 8% have experienced it first hand. Many teens also told her that drama can be much bigger online because there is more of an audience. She shows the other side though and discusses how 70% still say social networks are friendly places. While people can be meaner, they can also be nicer and stand up for someone who is being bullied. They also allow long distances relationships to keep going, like if a sibling is off at college. Finally, she closes by saying that some teens have lied about their age to get on social networking sites and also that teens discuss what happens online with their parents and they care about their privacy. This clip is pretty general and doesn't show bias.

Social Media, teens, parents and whether to "friend"- Chloe Morakis http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/on-parenting/post/social-media-teens-parents-and-whether-to-friend/2011/11/04/gIQAxRbL5M_blog.html The author, Janice D'Arcy has been a journalist for 15 years and has been writing about the relationship between teenagers and parents for a while. She wrote this article in the Washington Post on social media and how teenagers are responsible when it comes to sites like Facebook or Myspace. She wrote it in 2011 so it is recent and there isn't any strong bias. D'Arcy comments on how "80 percent of [teenagers] belong to social media sites" but how parents either trust their children and don't get involved, or they talk to their kids about social networking. She even states that "60 percent of teen internet and cell phone users cited their parents as their biggest influence when it comes to their connected behavior." This is an interesting article because it talks about how kids are being responsible, which not many people focus on, and it talks about the parents effective and important role, which many people fail to realize.

[|http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/09/how-facebook-and-social-m_n_921905.html#s324848&title=Task_Switching] This 2011 article is written by the Huffington Post editor and [|Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University] graduate, Jordan K. Turgeon. The article discusses how media affects teens’ minds and daily life with examples using Facebook and cellphones. Turgeon focuses on an interview with Larry D. Rosen, Ph.D., and psychology professor at California State University. Positive effects of media such as helping teens express themselves, break out, and become more empathetic with the anonymous screen that exists, are explained. Rosen remains unbiased when he introduces counteractive studies that show an existing relationship between heavy Facebook use and narcissism in teens. The articles main question “How Does Social Networking Affect Our Kids?” are answered with: narcissism, anxiety/depression, greater distractibility, virtual empathy, socializing, task switching. All in all this article has relevant information, backed up current and expert studies and provides the reader with well balanced information on both the positive and negative effects of media on teens.
 * How Facebook And Social Media Affect The Minds Of Generation Next **
 * -Amelia Gerste **

[] This 2011 article found in the Washington Post, written by regular publisher [|Cecilia Kang], looks at bullying as a result of social media. While it does not consider the positive effects social media can have and as it is biased in seeing the negative effects (bullying, teens being mean, etc.), the article provides accurate information and statistics based on studies from the Pew Research Center’s [|Internet & American Life Project], which surveyed 800 children between the ages of 12 and 17. The article goes on to elaborate on the studies findings that 9 out of 10 teens have reported witnessing bullying on social media. Kang also discusses how the younger the adolescents; the more likely they are to be “mean”. Overall, the article provides an interesting perspective on media and teens and highlights the “alter ego” teens tend to feel when on social networking sites, allowing them to take more risks.
 * Nine of 10 teenagers have witnessed bullying on social networks, study finds –Amelia Gerste **

Social Networking’s Good and Bad Impacts on Kids -olivia frymark [] This article has the psychologist, Larry D. Rosen, comment on the aspects of social media on kids. He uses research to prove some of the bad influences of technology such as, behavioral changes (presence of antisocial behaviors, mania and aggressive tendencies), increase of health issues (anxiety, depression, and psychological disorders), and most of all it is a big distraction. Kids who waste time online become distracted from their school work and as a result have lower grades than the kids who do not. Rosen also discusses the good aspects of social media on teens. People who spend more time online have become more empathetic. And kids have been able to socialize in saftey, meaning they have the security of branching out to others without being bullied because it is only happening on a computer. Finally, media has a way of engaging students in their schoolwork. This sorce is legitimate because Rosen has a PHD in psychology from California State University. It is not a bias source because he states both sides of the issue and it is relevant because this is a big contreversy concerning teens and it weighs the pros and cons based on real data.

Alone in the Crowd -olivia frymark [] This article is by Michael Price, a regular publisher for the APA, and it is about how social media has a positive and negative effect on kids. The article is divided up into the different ways social media effects its users. It is very accurate in only explaining the facts, not opinions, on how social media affects relationships, patterns of communicating, and the different effects of media between boys and girls. This article is credible because it has been published in the past 5 years so it is accurate data. And it is not biased because it states fact not opinion.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/4/800.full This article is written by two doctors discussing both positive and negative effects of social media on children and adolescents. It is very credible because it is written by two known pediatricians in the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatricians. It begins by giving facts and statistics regarding the number of teens using social media. After establishing how popular social media is, the authors give details about the benefits social media can have for teens and how it can be helpful such as enhancing socialization and learning opportunities, and accessing health information. After discussing the benefits, they then discuss the risks including cyberbullying, sexting, and a new phenomenon called "facebook depression." They also discuss privacy concerns and how websites use social media information to specifically advertise to certain users based on their likes and dislikes they gather from social websites. The article concludes by discussing the main reasons the minimum age to be on a social media site is 13 years old and ways pediatricians can assist and give advice to their teens and parents regarding social media sites.
 * The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families- Megan Denchfield**

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=264723 This article is written by Ruth Eglash, a reporter for the J-Post talking about the effects of social media and how it is the biggest threat to teens today. This article is very current and credible- gathering information from a credible nonprofit organization. Eglash uses statistics and testimonials from the non-profit organization Elem, an organization that helps youths at risk. According to Elem, cyberbullying is increasing at record rates and teens are being effected by it younger and younger with a 50% rise in children counseled under the age of 14. Eglash discusses how because of social media and the threats posed by it, teens are forced to grow up faster because they find themselves in bullying situations typically not faced until their late teens. According to a report from Elem, there was an 18% rise in verbal, sexual, and physical abuse caused by interactions on social media sites. Because these interactions happen online, parents are excluded from the actions going on therefore isolating teens and making the most at risk those who cannot confide in any adult figure. Eglash concludes her article by pointing out how dangerous the social media phenomena is by discussing how the internet allows teens to engage in activities such as bullying, verbal and sexual abuse, suicidal tendencies, gambling and prostitution easier than ever before.
 * Elem: Social Media Biggest Threat to Teens- Megan Denchfield**


 * Impact of Social Media - Charles Stewart**

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The Internet has a huge impact on the lives of teenagers. The constant and dependent use of the internet by teenagers drastically effects them in many ways such as grammatical purposes. Teenagers speak in the vernacular form all the time when on the internet which distracts their mind from speaking in the standard form when needed most. However, teenagers do use the internet for educational purposes such as learning different cultures and to extend academic research in new and interesting ways. Many parents, who often are less technologically savvy as their teenagers, find it difficult to understand and monitor their children's Internet use appropriately.

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 * Social Media/Cyber Bullying Charts - Shambriel Metts**

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Above are the links to statistics and an article I found about how media and technology plays a role on bullying in the lives of adolescents. The first link is a graph that shows evidence that technology plays a lesser role in bullying where as the article in the second link states the complete opposite. The article basically says that because technology has grown and is always improving, teens and even children now have taken on the good and the bad of technology. With Twitter and Facebook's popularity, today's youth have began to use "high-tech tools for low-ends. " Jane McKenna, the author of the Op-Ed, stated that when the youth use this, they send out "anonymous attacks, slanderous whisper campaigns and worse - criminal harassment, victimization, abuse, assault and murder."


 * Use of Web on** mobile phones - Robert Dames

> @http://web.pewinternet.org/~/media/Files/Reports/2010/PIP_Social_Media_and_Young_Adults_Report_Final_with_toplines.pdf

This book shows how the effects of mobile web have made teens convert on cellular phones to use the web rather than standard desktops. This source is legit because this is from a 2010 book from the Pew Research Center which was by Amanda Lenhart.


 * Serena McIntyre**

@http://web.pewinternet.org/~/media/Files/Reports/2010/PIP_Social_Media_and_Young_Adults_Report_Final_with_toplines.pd

This source's key points address the use of social networking in young adults lives between the ages of 12 - 29, which is stated that those are the ages where social networking is mostly used. It also addresses the point of effects it has on the teens that use it the most ( i.e. relying on social networking sites on their main sources of communication). It talks about the change of internet use and how it spiked and also dropped in the years since 2006. In the last few slides of the source it talks about how youth, teenagers, young adults, and older adults rely on social networking, gaming consoles (mostly xboxes and playstations)for most of their daily entertainment if not all.


 * Breyonna Watts**

@http://www.doctoroz.com/blog/george-joseph-lcdc/social-media-s-effect-adolescents

I find the source to be credible because it comes from a doctor and a collegue that does this type of research. The article says teens that are using the social networks like Myspace, have a higher chance to smoke, drink, and do drugs due to the influences from the internet. The article also says that parents feel that if they move their children away from their friends, the child would do better. Its easy to reconnect with old and new friends because of these social media networking sites. The sites allow the child to tell who they are and what they want and find friends and other teens that share the same interest.


 * Kourtney Boone**

@http://www.courierpress.com/news/2011/aug/15/research-confirms-social-medias-impact-on/

The effect that social media, especially Facebook has on an adolescent is debated upon positively and negatively. Facebook is said to have changed the teenage population, both education wise and growth. Facebook seems like the only way children and adolescents are supported; their only get away from the real world is expressed through virtual empathy online. Those children who encounter facebook activities through the course of work time are said to obtain lower grades in school. The fact that social media effects adolescents education proves that social media isn't good for the youth in certain areas.

So basically what I saw and worked on today on the computer lab was the effects on media on teenagers. The links I have are web media (Google) effects on teenagers. As well as a article on social media effect on teenagers to smoke which I thought was interesting. As well on effects on sexual behaviors on teenagers.
 * Marc Sibaja**

1. http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ScdF1-vHvHwC&oi=fnd&pg=PR7&dq=social+media+effect+on+teenagers&ots=2KOd8gNGTv&sig=KGZa4TOnuewzTHyYUXw2NuJvoPk#v=onepage&q=social%20media%20effect%20on%20teenagers&f=false

2.@http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1046/j.1360-0443.98.s1.6.x/abstract;jsessionid=56206FA292B3343DB45FDD8B7502BA4B.d03t01?userIsAuthenticated=false&deniedAccessCustomisedMessage=

3.@http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/116/Supplement_1/303.short