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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 hash tags 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 three 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-
live.

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 through 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 are 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 such as

measurements of offered intimacy from apps could be applicable to the topic.

Cooper,

Looks like you are working with a really fascinating topic. You do a good job summarizing these

sources and discussing their general positions on issues related to digital interactions. I would

like to see your focus narrow down quite a bit. It seems like youve cast a pretty wide net here,

which is fine in these preliminary stages, but there are topics of loneliness, dating, and violence

that dont really intersect that much aside from occurring in digital/online spaces. So consider

which of these lines of thinking is most appealing to you and focus your paper (your thesis) on

that line of thinking. The discussions on romantic relationships and online interaction seem to

have the most in common. Looking forward to seeing how this one shapes up.

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