Cooper Voigt

Professor P

English 102

24 February 2017

You, Me, and Social Media: Annotated Bibliography

Inquiry: How is human interaction is affected by social media?

Thesis: I argue that social media is a double edged sword, whereas it can be very beneficial to

oneself or a community but can also be the cause of harm to oneself or a community. The pros

and cons will be displayed to get a sense of how human interaction is shaped by social media.

Cravens, Jaclyn, et al. "Why I Stayed/Left: An Analysis of Voices of Intimate Partner Violence

on Social Media."Contemporary Family Therapy: An International Journal, vol. 37, no. 4, Dec.

2015, pp. 372-385. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s10591-015-9360-8.

The central claim of this article is about intimate partner violence and why one might stay

in that relationship. The article looks at when Ray Rice beat his girlfriend and many people took

to the social media app Twitter and gave reasons to why they stayed in their abusive relationship

or why they left their abusive relationship. The article evidence for the claim comes from a study

where researchers analyzed over 600 tweets under certain hashtags of #whyistayed and

#whyileft, using the tweets they summarized what factors convince one to continue a violent

relationship and what factors convince one to leave. The source is fairly credible considering it

has three authors, multiple credible sources, and is peer-reviewed because it is published in a

textbook called Contemporary Family Therapy (2015). It is also timely considering it was

written in 2015, and fairly relevant to the topic of social media. There may be some bias based
on the fact that the studies and all the information was pulled from people's tweets on social

media which in turn are almost always biased and there is no way of knowing if the person

tweeting is telling the truth. This source is suitable for the report because it takes a look on how

people are using a social media device such as Twitter to share their story, which can convince

others to stay or leave their relationship.

Dillman Carpentier, Francesca R., et al. "When First Comes Love (Or Lust): How Romantic and

Sexual Cues Bias First Impressions in Online Social Networking." Journal of Social Psychology,

vol. 154, no. 5, Sept. 2014, pp. 423-440. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1080/00224545.2014.933158.

This source claims that we romantically perceive others differently through social media

than in person and that difference can make them seem more alluring or romantic. They also

argue that sexual cues perceived through social media may improve attractiveness, lead to an

increase in attention, performance, competence, and other positive qualities; or sexual cues

through social media may make others view one as stereotypical sex role or as a sex object,

whereas people may only favor them if they seem open to sexual advances, consensual or not.

These claims are defended by experiments the researchers carried out where people would be

primed with a set of qualities on some person's social media on LinkedIn and then they would

give their impression upon the people. The source is fairly credible because it is a peer-reviewed

source and contains 3 highly qualified authors, the source also contains credible sources and is

relevant to the topic. Also the article was written in 2014, therefore it is timely. The source can

contain some bias considering it is working mainly on the opinions of what others view

romantically, as every person is a mixed bag it can be difficult to defend their findings which are

the opinions of people. The source is fairly suitable for my topic considering the argument of this
source is that people may perceive others differently because of social media than they would

have in a face to face environment.

Fleck, Jesse and Leigh Johnson-Migalski. "The Impact of Social Media on Personal and

Professional Lives: An Adlerian Perspective." Journal of Individual Psychology, vol. 71, no. 2,

Summer2015, pp. 135-142. EBSCOhost, login.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/login?

url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=a9h&AN=103721598&site=ehost-

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This article makes claims of social medias positive and negative impacts on health care.

It makes these claims on the grounds of looking at real examples where social media is

improving professional and personal lives in the hospitals, and examples where social media

harms because of patients opinions of therapists, the breaching of privacy, and the effect of social

media adding unnecessary stress to a patient. The source is fairly credible it is written by two

qualified authors, it is peer-reviewed and is part of a textbook called the Journal of Individual

Psychology. The article was created in 2015 and is relevant to my topic. The article may be

somewhat biased because it was written by doctors in the field of psychology and the examples

of social media being harmful/helpful is pull either from a personal account or a small pool. The

information in this source would be useful in my paper because it fairly neutrally describes the

pros and cons of social medias impact with humans at the medical level.

Galasso Bonanno, S. (2016). Social Medias Impact on Relationships. Psych Central. Retrieved

on February 27, 2017, from https://psychcentral.com/lib/social-medias-impact-on-relationships/

This article is about the emotional connect that one receives through social media. The

author claims that relationships although social media are valuable they do not have the ability of

providing one with the opportunities of deep emotional closeness. The claim that relationships
through social media are valuable is backed by studies that link social support to positive mental

health and the negative emotional impact of loneliness. The source is somewhat credible, the

author of the piece is a licensed psychologist so they have authority on the topic but the article is

published on a website, it says on the website that the piece was peer-reviewed by another

doctor, it does contain reliable sources and was written in 2016. The article seems fairly biased

whereas she stats facts but does not back them up too much, she tends to state her information as

rhetorical questions. The source does contain some relevant information to my topic such as the

claims of worth of social media.

Patton, Desmond Upton, et al. "Sticks, Stones and Facebook Accounts: What Violence Outreach

Workers Know about Social Media and Urban-Based Gang Violence in Chicago." Computers in

Human Behavior, vol. 65, Dec. 2016, pp. 591-600. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.052.

The central claim of this article is that youths in violent neighborhoods are using social

media as a tool for bragging about violence, making threats, recruiting gang members, and

planning violent crimes. They believe the rise in shootings and violent crimes in Chicago is due

to cyber bullying or taunting online. They support their claim by collecting a sample of youth

violence outreach workers and had 17 interviews, with those interviews they received

stories/examples of where youths had used social media to instigate a fight or had a relation to a

violent crime. They also argue how youths are using social media as a platform to portray an

unrealistic identity to their peers, this is backed up by a piece from an interview by an outreach

worker Jasmine on section 4. 1.1. This source is fairly credible because it has four authors,

multiple legitimate sources, and is peer reviewed considering it is part of a textbook called

Computers in Human Behavior. The article is relevant to the topic, it was written in 2016 so it is

very timely, and it could contain some bias considering they interviewed violent outreach
workers which work with troubled or gang youths which would not be the norm or average

person which can have an impact on the argument. This source is extremely suitable for my

research paper, it contains many personal stories and examples where social media had an impact

on their human interaction. It also contains good research and has a similar topic to my paper.

Pittman, Matthew and Brandon Reich. "Social Media and Loneliness: Why an Instagram Picture

May Be Worth More Than a Thousand Twitter Words." Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 62,

Sept. 2016, pp. 155-167. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1016/j.chb.2016.03.084.

This article claims that loneliness is rising in young adults but imaged-based social media

apps such as Instagram and Snapchat have the ability to alleviate loneliness due to the

enhanced intimacy they offer, while text-based applications such as Twitter of little intimacy

and hardly affect loneliness. This article defends this claim by performing a study in which 253

students were to fill out a survey that asked how happy, lonely, and how satisfied with life

were they and which apps they used to where the researchers gathered correlations between

happiness and what apps used. The source is somewhat credible, it is peer reviewed and in the

textbook Computers in Human Behavior, it contains credible sources and has two authors, it is

also relevant to the topic and was written in 2016. But it is fairly biased, although it backed up its

study findings with a lot of math and numbers the way they conducted their findings is hardly

reliable, they asked college students how happy they were and what social media apps they used,

there is two problems with that: college kids are normally somewhat stressed and almost all

college students use a large number of social media apps, so it is difficult to derive which app

made someone happy. The source would be okay to use in my research paper because although

the findings may not be trustworthy there are parts where data could be applicable to the topic.