Erica Boakye

RWS 1302
Prof. Riley Welcker
Literature Review
Social Media Controversies
Question 1: What do social media cause to students GPA?
Sources and Paragraphs:
In 2013, Cao, Yingxia, and Hong concluded, The use of social media application in
college teaching has theoretical basis from pedagogical theories and technology adoption
theories. Pedagogical theories support that social media applications can enrich students
learning experience and improve educational outcomes. Technology adoption theories
explain the cause and effect of different factors of social media such as Twitter and
blogging as valuable contemporary curriculum content and learning experience (p. 581).
As Wang et al. (2012) states, Data were collected from a sample of 247 Chinese
university students via an online survey. The results suggest that perceived enjoyment,
perceived social presence, and perceived usefulness are key user satisfaction. Perceived
social presence and perceived media richness are positively associated with perceived
enjoyment. It was found that perceived enjoyment, perceived social presence, and
perceived enjoyment media richness have significant effects on perceived usefulness. Of
interest, perceived enjoyment and perceived social presence have stronger effects on user
satisfaction than perceived usefulness (p. 153).
Ahn (2011) claims that even though social media may have good impacts on students,
youth spend a considerable portion of their daily life interacting through social media

which is a bad thing. She continues that Subsequently, question and controversies
emerge about the effects SNS have on adolescent development. This review outlines the
theoretical frameworks researchers have used to understand adolescents and SNS. It
brings together work from disparate fields that examine the relationship between SNS
and social capital, privacy, youth safety, psychological well-being, and educational
achievement. These research strands speak to high-profile concerns and controversies that
surround youth participation in these online communities, and offer ripe areas for future
research (p.1435).
Asdaque, Khan, and Rizvi agree that The internet is of the greatest recent advancement
in the world of information technology and has become a useful instrument that has
fostered the process of making the world a global village. This is a universal fact that the
use of internet has a great impact on the students academic achievement and social life.
The study was conducted to determine the effect of use of internet on the academic
performance, social life and outdoor activity of University students in Pakistan. The study
will be helpful for the university students, researchers and curriculum developers in order
to find out the correlation of use of internet and academic performance. The study is
significant for the university teachers to analyze the effect of use of internet on academic
performance of students. The study will be supportive to explore the correlation of use of
internet and social life of university students. Conclusion was drawn with the help of
graphical representations indicating the impact of use of internet on academic
achievement and social life of university students. Survey research was conducted on one
hundred BS students, selected from two Federal Universities of Pakistan (2010).
As Ferzetti et al. disagrees, The advent of the internet has led to the rapid growth of the
variety - and amount - of information that is now available. While online technology has

benefited a great number of people, it is also felt that the internet might replace other
activities that could be more beneficial or productive. In other words, it could serve as a
distractor, lending credence to the statement that "time spent doing one thing cannot be
spent doing another." This study specifically examines the amount of internet usage and
its effects on college students' GPAs (n.d.).
Krakowsky argues that social media is not only a distraction to teenagers who have
become addicted to checking their news feeds, but that it can lead to psychological and
health issues (2014). Her research shows that a number of anxiety and personality
disorders stem from spending too much time on the Internet.
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Question 2: How do social media cause conflict between people?

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