Annotated Bibliography
Tayla Jones Jones 1
Ahn, June. "The Effect of Social Network Sites on Adolescents’ Social and Academic Development: Current Theories and Controversies."Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62.8 (2011): 1435-445. Web. In this article, the author examines the truth behind the controversies based around teens and their participation in social networking. She focuses on scientific studies rather than casual theories and methodologies. The article “reviews relevant research that informs several controversies concerning social networking sites and adolescents” (June, 1435). It appears that social networking has a negative impact on adolescents, allowing things like cyberbullying to take place when it never existed as a problem in the past.
O'Keeffe, Gwenn S. "The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families." Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics127 (2011): 800-04. Web. In this article, Gwenn S. O’Keeffe examines the positive and negative uses and effects of the use of social media websites by teens and tweens in America. The “benefits of children and adolescents using social media” that the article lists are socialization and communication, enhanced learning opportunities, and accessing health information. The “risks of youth using social media” are cyberbullying, online harassment, sexting, and Facebook Depression. Overall, she sees social networking websites as a potentially useful tool for tweens and teens to use, but recognizes that most of them will not be using them in the useful way she has in mind.
Jones 2
Xue, Lan. “China: The Prizes and Pitfalls of Progress.” Everything’s an Argument.” Ed. Stephen Patterson. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004. 389-394. Print. China is beginning to perform more scientific research than ever before. While there are more opportunities for ideas and innovation, the management of these ideas is extremely difficult. The author, Lan Xue, believes
Ahn, June. "The Effect of Social Network Sites on Adolescents’ Social and Academic Development: Current Theories and Controversies."Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 62.8 (2011): 1435-445. Web. In this article, the author examines the truth behind the controversies based around teens and their participation in social networking. She focuses on scientific studies rather than casual theories and methodologies. The article “reviews relevant research that informs several controversies concerning social networking sites and adolescents” (June, 1435). It appears that social networking has a negative impact on adolescents, allowing things like cyberbullying to take place when it never existed as a problem in the past.
O'Keeffe, Gwenn S. "The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families." Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics127 (2011): 800-04. Web. In this article, Gwenn S. O’Keeffe examines the positive and negative uses and effects of the use of social media websites by teens and tweens in America. The “benefits of children and adolescents using social media” that the article lists are socialization and communication, enhanced learning opportunities, and accessing health information. The “risks of youth using social media” are cyberbullying, online harassment, sexting, and Facebook Depression. Overall, she sees social networking websites as a potentially useful tool for tweens and teens to use, but recognizes that most of them will not be using them in the useful way she has in mind.
Jones 2
Xue, Lan. “China: The Prizes and Pitfalls of Progress.” Everything’s an Argument.” Ed. Stephen Patterson. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2004. 389-394. Print. China is beginning to perform more scientific research than ever before. While there are more opportunities for ideas and innovation, the management of these ideas is extremely difficult. The author, Lan Xue, believes