Annotated Bibliography and Double Journal Entry

Well hello there! Welcome to my blog. Last time we spent some time together, I told you that I had chosen to write my next essay on the affects that social media can have on a family. I have found some interesting information to share with you today! For this assignment, we needed to find about ten sources and then narrow those ten down to five. After we found the five sources that we liked, we needed to write an annotated bibliography on the source. What is an annotated bibliography? Well, it's basically a way that I can prove to my readers that my source is credible and will be useful towards my research. And beneath my first source you will see a box with two columns. This is called a double journal entry. This is where we can pick out some interesting things from the articles that we chose as our source. Or we can pick out things that we do not agree with or maybe it's something that we completely agree with, but either way, we pick what interests us and type that in on the left column. Then in the right column we write out personal responses to the interesting things that we picked out of the article. So below is what I was able to find. I hope you enjoy!

Topic: How does Social Media affect a persons social life/reality and how does that affect their relationships with their family?

Works Cited

1. Davis III, Charles H. F., Regina Deil-Amen, Cecilia Rios-Aguilar, and Manuel Sacremento Gonzalez Canche. "Join Academia.edu & Share Your Research with the World." Social Media in Higher Education: A Literature Review and Research Directions. The Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona and Claremont Graduate University, n.d. Web. 04 Nov. 2013.

Annotated Bibliography:

I chose this article as a source for my next essay because first and foremost, the authors of this article are professors or assistant professors at a research based university, the University of Arizona. Each of these contributors have either written a book or done extensive study on the variables (race, culture, technology, and finances) that can affect a students success through out college. Amen and Aguilar have even recently received funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (a foundation dedicated to funding technological advances for the benefit of those in need) in order to research how colleges and universities are able to use social media for educational purposes. I focused primarily on page three, with the topic title of “Becoming Social”. Throughout this portion of the article, Davis, Amen, Aguilar, and Canche discuss the affects that Social Media has had on any one person. In short, they argue that social media has given people the ability to feel connected. However, this has resulted in the lack of time spent doing homework and other educational and emotionally uplifting experiences (time with friends, family, etc.). The authors even go on to state how much time on average is spent on social media each day and how that affects our brain development. Being that my topic is how social media affects people and their interactions with their family, I believe that this source will be incredibly helpful as I research the psychological affects that Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc. affect any one person and how their time is spent in regards to their relationships with others.

Double Journal Entry: “Over the last decade, and particularly in the last five or six years, SMT has transformed our thinking about our relationships, our connections with and affinity to others, and the influence and persuasive power of online communities on how we think, organize, and act politically.” “Since the inception of the internet, and integration of email technology into our personal and work lives, our ways of communicating began to change.” “Social media technology links people together in ways that resemble traditional feelings of connection, belonging, loosely defined memberships, exchange of feelings and ideas, and the reporting of experiences and actions.” Today, the adoption of social media technology now stretches across the globe integrating into the lives of individuals of diverse social, national, racial, and ethnic, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.” “young people...spend on average, more than eight hours a day exposed to digital technology.”

how has social media affected our thinking processes? Is there a way that we can still be involved with social media and not fall into this trap? MAKE NOTE TO RESEARCH MORE. How does social media have a tendency to change our views on how we think, organize, and act politically? How have our ways of communicating begun to change? Is it because social media has a tendency to change our views? I think that social media takes up too much time that we should be using learning life. Social media makes me feel connected to others through long distance communication. But how else are there ways for me to keep in contact with others without becoming addicted to social media. How does culture have an affect on our use of social media? Is there a way that we can all stay on the same track with communication in different cultures? How does the time that we spend on social media have a way of distracting us in the long run? I think that those eight hours a day would be better of spent learning life through family time and experiences with people around us.

2. Ho, Sally. "Bullying on the Latest Social Media Sites for Teens Worries Parents." Chicago Tribune. N.p., 28 Oct. 2013. Web. 05 Nov. 2013.

I believe that this website will be a reliable source because it's article is a contemporary look at how parent's are concerned about what happens on social media. While this article focuses more on the bullying aspect of social media, this too, can have a major impact on the way that the child interacts with his or her family member. Sally Ho, a Tribune reporter for the Chicago Tribune News, recently wrote this article because of the rapid increase in bullying due to communication on social media websites. This article references Kristine Schultz, a mother of a girl who was highly involved with social media. While Mrs. Schultz did some research on a specific media site that was often used, Ask.fm, she came across an alarming and very saddening discovery. There were actually youth suicides linked to this website because of the bullying that had taken place vis this place of communication. However, while suicide might be the most severe outcome of social media, there are many other results that can have a major affect on a child. I believe that while this source may require extra research to distinguish between what is valuable for my essay and what is not, I am certain that with the quotes, personal examples, and explicit suggestions, the Chicago Tribune will prove to be of great value.

3. Bowen, Lisa. "About APA." Http://www.apa.org. American Pyschological Association, 6 Aug. 2011. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.

I chose this article as a source because it is a fairly recent depiction on the good and bad affects that are attached to social media. While the author is not directly affirmed on this website, there are a few people that the article refers us to for further information. The most prominent, however, is Lisa Bowen, the Director of Public Affairs. In the right side column of this article she offers her services to discuss both privately and openly about this issue as well as information as to where the article's reader could find some added information about this issue. In this article, the author portrays how easy it is for a student in either middle school or high school, to allow social media to affect their attitude socially among friends. However, it is also suggested that social media can help a child who struggles in face to face conversations to still feel social and make friends through an internet connection. The author also adds some positive aspects to social media that I do not necessarily agree with. While I will have to deepen my thoughts about some of these statements, I do believe that this article will be most helpful as it will add some variety to my essay as well as a professionals perspective on how social media can become too much a part of a child's life.

4. Lazarus, David. "Facebook Shows How Privacy Is Passe." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 03 Feb. 2012. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.

This article has already proven to be one that will be immensely helpful just because I read the title, “Facebook Shows How Privacy Is Passe”. David Lazarus, the author of this article, is a writer for the Las Angeles Times, the largest metropolitan newspaper in the country. Lazarus takes this small portion of the newspaper to briefly tell his readers that we live in a “post-privacy era”. Lazarus also mentions how the lack of privacy has caused some people to have conflicts with others because of the amount of information that was shared via the net. Our culture is so open about every aspect of our lives, that there is no sense of a private life within the family. This being said, I believe that this article will be beneficial to me as I write this article. Mainly because Lazarus takes me a little bit deeper into the thought process of how much social media users today are posting about themselves online for all to see. And also how that can result in conflicts and tension between not the other web users, but also family and friends who are subjected to social media.

5. Schurgin O'Keefe, Gwen, MD, and Kathleen Clark Pearson, MD. "The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families." The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families. American Academy of Pediatrics, n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2013.

This article will be of great value to me because it was written especially by two doctors who are pediatricians. They took this article to a whole new level by introducing me, as its reader, to the real effects that social media can have on a child. Because adolescents spend far too much time on the internet, O'Keefe and Pearson say that these children are growing and experiencing puberty through the internet rather than through real life situations. They also briefly discuss how children who are highly active in the social media world, often get involved in cyber bullying, sexting, and many privacy issues. Because of these problems, children are prone to not associate themselves with people around them and often fall into even more situations much more harming to themselves. This article is easy to read and full of a lot of professional insight on this issue that I think will be helpful as I write my essay.