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Thi Phuong Nhan Nguyen
Professor Alfred Carson
ENGL 1102
26 March 2021
Annotated Bibliography
"Cannabis, smartphones and mental illness: How workplace health and safety is changing." The
Canadian Broadacasting Corporation, 30 Apr. 2019. Gale In Context: Opposing
Viewpoints, http://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A584031418/OVIC?u=cht2&xid=54d1966a.
Accessed 12 Nov. 2019.
This broadcast transcript mentions the social changing brought on by things like smartphones
and the legalization of cannabis is rapidly turning the conservation from physical towards mental
health, and they tried to find a five-year plan on how to mitigate those dangers.
“Smartphones, other distractions can be more deadly than impaired driving, data suggests.” The
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, 29 Oct, 2019, p. NA. Gale In Context: Opposing
Viewpoints,https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A604121500/OVIC?u=cht2&sid=OVIC&xid=
26dd1171. Accessed 12 Nov. 2019.
This broadcast transcript mentions how harm of using smartphones while driving the car. They
explain people, especially young adults, distracted driving: they call it is “a disconnect”. “an
addiction”. They left some evidence, its consequence, and how several provinces tried to prevent
that from getting worse.
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“Apple Shareholders Want the Company to Keep Children Away from Screen. Good.” The
Washington Post, 2018. EBSCOhost,
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cl. 523017132&site=eds-live&scope=site.
“Blue Light from Smartphones Could Accelerate Blindness.” Xinhua News Agency, 2018.
EBSCOhost,search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=edsg
wh&AN=edsgcl.549973135&site=eds-live&scope=site.
This article is about the science report that blue light from digital devices like smartphones could
accelerate blindness. They give us some evidences that if we look at the phone’s screen in the
dark, blue light continuously might cause poisonous molecules to be generated in the eye’s lightsensitive cells and lead to macular degeneration, which cause blind.
“Is It Time to Ban Children from Using Smartphones?” Gulf News (United Arab Emirates),
2017. EBSCOhost,
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gcl.519578495&sitc=cds-live&scopc=sitc.
“Will a WiFi Network Harm Your Children?” The London Evening Standard (London,
England), 2006. EBSCOhost,
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cl.154715639&site=eds-live&scope=site.
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This broadcast transcript is the debate between “campaigners” and several people about should
or should not remove wireless computer networks (Wi-Fi) from their homes and the school.
Some researchers believe low-level radiation causes loss of concentration, headaches, fatigue,
behavioral problems and possibly cancer. They say children could be more at risk because of
their thinner skulls and developing nervous system. Therefore, some families and colleges
remove Wi-Fi and replace it with cables.
Chiang Jeng-Tung. “Transitions in Smartphone Addiction Proneness among Children: The
Effect of Gender and Use Patterns.” PLoS ONE, no. 5, 2019. EBSCOhost,
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l.587216654&site=eds-live&scope=site.
Lipczynska Sonya. “The Health Apps on Your Smart Phone: Science or Snake Oil?” Journal of
Mental Health, vol. 25, no. 5, pp. 385-386, Oct. 2016. EBSCOhost, doi:
10.3109/09638237.2016.1167859.
Park, Joo-Hee. “The Effects of Smart Phone Gaming Duration on Muscle Activation and Spinal
Posture: Pilot Study.” Physiotherapy Theory & Practice, vol. 33, no. 8, pp. 661-669, Aug.
2017. EBSCOhost, doi: 10.1080/09593985.2017.1328716.
Lisa Shaw and Rebecca Terrell. “What SCREENS ARE DOING TO OUR KIDS.” The New
American, no. 12, p.10, 2019. EBSCOhost,
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cl.593148768&site=eds-live&scope=site.
This article mentions how technology, especially smartphones and computer, influence children
in both physical and mentally such as cyberbullying, techno-perversion, decreased brain volume
in the right striatum, decreased left striatum activation, and lower functional connectivity to the
prefrontal cortex, the amount of gray matter in the brain decreases, and so on. At the end of the
article, they give some advice for improving that status.