Annotated Bibliography
O'Keeffe, G. S., & Clarke-Pearson, K. (2011). The Impact of Social Media on Children,
Adolescents, and Families. Pediatrics, 127(4), 800–804.
https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2011-0054
This study shows the positives and negatives of social media on children and
adolescents. It reviews how social media impacts children and adolescents in many
different ways whether good or bad. This source is credible and is not biased since the
authors also talked about the positive effects of social media and not just negatives. In
addition, both authors are experienced medical doctors each at very famous and wellknown institutions such as the University of Washington and University of North
Carolina. This study has helped support my topic since I was able to get both arguments
and counterarguments ideas from this article. It also supported my arguments on how
social media has negative effects on teens.
Akram, W., & Kumar, R. (2017). A Study on Positive and Negative Effects of Social Media on
Society. International Journal of Computer Sciences and Engineering, 5(10), 351–354.
https://doi.org/10.26438/ijcse/v5i10.351354
This article studies the many effects of social media on society whether good or bad. It
also studies the different social media platforms and discusses its uses and a background
about it. Once again, this article minimizes the amount of bias by including both positive
and negative effects of social media and does not stick to only one of them. The author,
Waseem Akram, is a professor in the department of computer applications at Government
Degree College Mendhar. This article has helped me write my counterargument
paragraph talking about social media being an effective method of communication for
teenagers. Furthermore, it had many other ideas I could have extracted if needed.
Jiang, S., & Ngien, A. (2020). The Effects of Instagram Use, Social Comparison, and
Self-Esteem on Social Anxiety: A Survey Study in Singapore. Social Media + Society,
6(2), 205630512091248. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120912488
The journal article talks about the level of self-esteem in teenagers who use social media.
It has many studies and research in an attempt to reach a conclusion about the relation
between social media and teens. Talking about bias, this article has used statistics and
studies to prove their arguments and have not made any hasty generalizations. The first
author, Dr. Jiang Shaohai, works as an assistant professor in the department of
communications and new media at a Singaporean university with the name of National
University of Singapore. However, the second author, Annabel Ngien, has a master’s
degree in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford. The studies and
statistics in this article have gotten to a conclusion that teens’ self-esteem gets affected by
social media. Its results have also matched my survey results, and both have built up
together to write my third argument paragraph.
Primack, B. A., Shensa, A., Sidani, J. E., Whaite, E. O., Lin, L. yi, Rosen, D., … Miller, E.
(2017). Social Media Use and Perceived Social Isolation Among Young Adults in the
U.S. American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 53(1), 1–8.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amepre.2017.01.010
The purpose of this journal article is to show some links between the use of social media
and the rate of social isolation between youth in the US. The conclusion made after all
the studies was that teens with higher social media usage are more likely to feel socially
isolated than people with a low social media usage. There was an effort to minimize
biases as much as possible in this paper by many means including taking a sample that
approximates 97% of the US population. In addition, social media usage was taken from
a lot of social media platforms and not just one or two. This journal article has many
authors, and all are experiences in their major. Although this article contains nine authors,
it is of high professionalism since all of them are either PhD holders or are working
towards their PhD and in addition they are all also working at very well-known
universities. The experience and intelligence of all nine authors is combined and
published in this journal. Overall, this journal was important to me for my arguments
since it was a very reliable one and made me understand my argument about selfisolation better in order to write better.
Press. Nelson, R. (2020, May 16). Social media effects: It may be encouraging social isolation.
https://www.viewpointcenter.com/blog/social-media-effects-social-isolation/.
This online article explains how social media sometimes causes teens to be self-isolated.
It studies social media in relation to social isolation in regard to just teens which is a very
good point for my essay considering that teens are my focus. Biases are avoided as much
as possible in this article since it has studied only teens and includes research from the
University of Pennsylvania to prove their points. ViewPoint Center is a medical center
dedicated to help teens aged 12-17 overcome any self-related issues and has treatment
for many mental health issues that teenagers face. Keeping this in mind, this article has
helped me improve my image about social isolation and I felt comfortable using this
source since it is dedicated to helping teens and also supported my arguments.