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Maddie Callaham
DR.C
ENG 1101
9 October 2018
Annotated Bibliography

Social media has influenced people’s lives in more way than I can count. Studies have

shown that there is a link between time spent on people phones and depression. Teen depression

has become a huge problem in the world today, and if it is related to social media, that is a

problem. Families need to be properly educated with how social media can affect their teenagers.

Teenagers who have depression issues act differently than teenagers who are not. They start to

shut down, and not have interests in regular activities. Teenage depression is a problem in the

world today, and I believe a part of it is because of social media.

Guinta, Maggie R. “Social Media and Adolescent Health.” Pediatric Nursing, vol. 44, no. 4, July 2018,

pp. 196–201. EBSCOhost,

sinclair.ohionet.org:80/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=c9h&

AN=131366570&site=eds-live.

Social media has become a huge part of our lives. Social media has a positive impact on

people, but also poses several potential risks. Nurses have been trained to educate adolescents

and their families about the effects of social media. Families need to have more education when

it comes to social media’s effect on people.

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This website falls under the CRAAP test in several ways. The authors are professors of

the nursing department at Columbia University. The article was written in 2018, so it is relevant.

The article is also a scholarly journal.

This article will help me with my argument that social media affects mental health of

teenagers by giving medial reasons. Healthcare team members have been educated with

addressing families about social media. If it’s important for healthcare professionals to know,

then it must be a big problem in the world.

Jacob, Austin. Personal Interview. 4 October 2018.

AJ was a victim of cyberbullying. When he was a young teenager, he was called terrible

names by terrible people. He got called ugly, short, and unwanted by his family. The bullies

claimed that since he was adopted, his parents should have sold him. He believed everything that

they have told him. He didn’t think he was worth anything, and didn’t have a purpose to life. He

became depressed, and he would stay in his room all of the time and not talk to anyone. AJ has

learned from this experience. He has blossomed into a confident young man, and if anyone tried

to make fun of him, he would brush it off. He learned to not care what people thought of him and

be himself.

This interview passes the CRAAP test in a few way. AJ told me a story that was a

personal experience. He relived the emotions and related them back to me.
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I will use the information that I have gathered to show how people can be affected by

social media. I can also use the information to show how people can feel during this time and if

the person changes as they grow up.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro. “The Risk Of Teen Depression And Suicide Is Linked To Smartphone Use, Study

Says.” Weekend Edition Sunday (NPR), Dec. 2017. EBSCOhost,

sinclair.ohionet.org:80/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&

AN=6XN201712171313&site=ehost-live.

The rate of teen suicide has increased when smartphones came out. Teens that spend

most of their time on their phone are more likely to have bad mental health. Teenagers could be

doing better activities for their health, such as sleeping.

The article falls under the CRAAP test in a few ways. The author works for the Weekend

Edition Sunday Newspaper, a company designed to inform people. Also, the article was written

in 2017, so it is relevant.

I think this article will help me show the terrible effects of social media. Teenagers spend

a majority of their time on their phone being on social media websites. It has changed me be

knowing the percentage of people who commit suicide due to technology.

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Pantic, Igor. “Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking.” Current Neurology and

Neuroscience Reports., U.S. National Library of Medicine, 1 Oct. 2014,

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4183915/.

Social media has caused changes in the way people interact. Studies show that time used

on social media’s relates to symptoms of depression. Children who spend a lot of time on social

media sites are more likely to have low self-esteem.

This article passes the CRAAP test by a few ways. The author, Igor Pantic, is a part of

the Ministry of Science and Education for the Republic of Serbia. The website is a .gov which

means it is run by the government.

I can use this article to help me by showing the link between depression and social media.

I can talk about how children can be affected by having low self-esteem and affecting them when

they grow up.

Salmela-Aro, Katariina, et al. “The Dark Side of Internet Use: Two Longitudinal Studies of Excessive

Internet Use, Depressive Symptoms, School Burnout and Engagement Among Finnish Early and

Late Adolescents.” Journal of Youth & Adolescence, vol. 46, no. 2, Feb. 2017, pp. 343–357.

EBSCOhost, doi:10.1007/s10964-016-0494-2.

Researchers have found a connection between excessive time on the internet to

depression and school burnouts. There has been an increase concern with the health of students

associated with technology, such as mobile devices, computers, social media, and internet. On

average, females typically suffer more from depression than males.

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This article falls under the CRAPP test in a few ways. The author, Katariina Salmela-

Aro, is a professor at the University of Helsinki. She specializes in doing research. The website

is a .gov, so that means it is a government website and is protected from people editing the

documents.

This article will help me write my paper, because it shows the connections between

internet usage and depression. I think I will find a lot of information about the mental health of

people after using social media.