Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Professor Leonard
English Composition
20 October 2019
Casebook
The goal of my essay is to discover more about how the impact of social media
influences the teen population today. I want to broaden my knowledge of how social media
affects my generation as people and what makes us different. I want to know if it has a more
positive or negative effect on our brains, our emotions, how we see the world, how we
communicate, how we see ourselves, and so on. Does social media have a hold on our lives
wherever we go? Is social media the reason our generation has such high standards about how
Asmelash, Leah. “Social Media Use May Harm Teens' Mental Health by Disrupting
Positive Activities, Study Says.” CNN, Cable News Network, 15 Aug. 2019,
www.cnn.com/2019/08/13/health/social-media-mental-health-trnd/index.html.
This first source is called “Social Media Use May Harm Teens' Mental Health by
Disrupting Positive Activities, Study Says.”, it was written by Leah Asmelash, and it appeared
on the CNN website on Wednesday, August 14, 2019. The article is about how social media
might not be the problem for mental health issues seen in teenagers, but rather, it's the exposure
and the frequency of its use. The article discusses how in both sexes the very frequent use of
social media was associated with greater psychological distress, but it affects the girls more than
the boys. Then the article concluded with stating ways of how to help teenagers through the
anxiety of social media by bringing in more healthy lifestyle changes for a positive way of life.
The writer’s purpose of this article is to shed light on how it’s not social media itself
that’s causing harm, but the frequent use and the exposure of certain types of content that’s
leading to the lower well-being and problems of mental health in teens. The audience for this
piece is anyone who is responsible for teens such as parents, teachers, guardians, babysitters, and
so forth. Since the article was last updated about 3 months ago the information is relevant and
makes the source more trustworthy and reliable for the audience. The writer herself is also
trustworthy and reliable because she just recently graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a
bachelor’s degree, she studied Reporting and Global Studies, with a focus on politics and the
European Union.
I plan to use this source to benefit the argument that social media leads to a negative
affect in teens. One of my questions that I was hoping to find the answer to was, “Does social
media affect teen’s mental health in a more positive or negative way?” and with this article it
helped me discover that answer. In other words, this is a good source to use for my research.
Moreno, Megan Andreas, and Ana Radovic. Technology and Adolescent Mental Health.
Springer, 2018.
This second source is called “Technology and Adolescent Mental Health”, it was written
by Megan Andreas Moreno and Ana Radovic, and it is an ebook that was published by Springer
in 2018. The book provides information about the epidemiology of mental health, how both
worlds of offline and online affect mental health in a positive and negative way in adolescents,
how technology is used for observation for mental health conditions, and finally future
approaches to technology with certain tools that are going to be used for improving the treatment
The writer’s purpose of this book is to inform readers about how the mental health of
adolescents can be affected in a positive and negative way through the internet as well as offline.
The intended audience for this book is pediatricians, family physicians, internal medicine
providers, adolescent medicine and psychiatry specialists, psychologists, social workers, as well
as any other healthcare providers working with adolescents and mental health care. This book is
a trustworthy and reliable source of information because it was published last year, which is still
considered recent, which means that the information provided is updated to this generation of
adolescents and the book is unbiased because it includes both sides of positive and negative
effects. The authors are also trustworthy and reliable because Megan Andreas Moreno is a doctor
who earned her medical degree from George Washington University, she did her residency at the
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, she did her fellowship in adolescent medicine at
the University of Washington Affiliated Hospitals, and she is board certified in adolescent
medicine. The other author, Ana Radovic, is also a doctor who got a MD at the University
Hospital of Cleveland Ohio, she specializes in Pediatrics while her Secondary Specialty is in
Adolescent Medicine, her board certifications are in Adolescent Medicine and Pediatrics, she did
her residency at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, she did her fellowship at the
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, and she is affiliated at the UPMC Children's
Hospital of Pittsburgh.
I plan to use this source when I want to learn more about the medical backgrounds of
how the internet affects the mental health of adolescents. This will be great information to use
when stating exact facts for those readers who rely on the appeal of logos to determine their view
on the topic.
Rocha, Sarah. “Talking with Teens and Families about Digital Media Use.” The Brown
University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter, vol. 35, no. 3, 2019, pp. 1–7.,
doi:10.1002/cbl.30361.
This third source is called “Talking with Teens and Families about Digital Media Use.”,
it was written by Sarah Rocha, and it first appeared on February 12, 2019 on The Brown
University Child and Adolescent Behavior Letter. This article is about how there is evidence to
suggest that there is a correlation between the increasing use of social media and increasing rates
of adolescent depression, anxiety, and suicide. There are mental health clinicians that are
reporting that the use of social media is a frequent source of family conflict. The article then
starts to talk about how clinicians are facing challenges when assessing family digital media use
The writer’s purpose of this article is to provide a set of ideas and reviews of expert‐
derived guidelines for talking with families about the use of social media. The intended audience
for this piece are experts who are trying to help families through their struggles by learning more
about how social media affected other families and getting more knowledge about
recommendations on how to provide a solution. This article is a trustworthy and reliable source
because it was published by a trusted university and it was also published earlier this year which
means that the information provided is from recent research. The author is also trustworthy and
reliable because she is a doctor who is a psychiatrist in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her
medical degree from the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and has been in
I plan to use this source to show that the use of social media doesn’t only affect the
teenagers involved, but also their families. This helps connect the older generations with the
younger ones, while also showing that the issue goes wider than what most people thought.
Roehl, Amy, and Alyssa Humphries Stewart. “Impact of Social Networking Sites and
This fourth source is called “Impact of Social Networking Sites and Digital Applications
Upon Teens.”, it was written by Amy Roehl and Alyssa Humphries Stewart, and it is a research
article that appeared in the Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences on March 1, 2018. This
article focuses on the development of youth by examining the effects of the use of social
networking sites on teens. They also include research that demonstrates that using certain types
of social media increases the existing issues that the teen population is facing, talks about new
concerns that they are worried about, and describes new ideas to help.
The writer’s purpose of this article is to inform the audience about the issues of these
teens and encourage them to engage in conversations with them about their social media use, and
to make sure they model healthy behavior. The audience for this piece are adults that have taken
responsibility for teens that are struggling with these issues as well as anyone who wants to help
them through the struggle. This article is trustworthy and reliable because the journal that
provided the article is a very well-known journal that has knowledgeable information and
research. The authors are also trustworthy and reliable because Amy Roehl is a known author of
several articles on this journal who has written and done a lot of research on children and teens.
While Alyssa Humphries Stewart got her bachelor's degree at Baylor University and is now a
professor at TCU, who is also broadening her knowledge with the help of Amy Roehl.
I plan on using this research article to help me describe the topic in a way that comes
across as general and understandable. I want this article to further my way of thinking in a more
simple manor so I don’t use too much research and information that others might not
comprehend so quickly.
Velozo, Joana De Calheiros, and Johannes E.a. Stauder. “Exploring Social Media Use as a
Adolescents.” Children and Youth Services Review, vol. 91, 2018, pp. 398–402.,
doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.06.039.
This fifth source is called “Exploring Social Media Use as a Composite Construct to
Understand Its Relation to Mental Health: A Pilot Study on Adolescents.”, it was written by
Joana de Calheiros Velozo and Johannes E A Stauder, and it first appeared on the Children and
Youth Services Review in 2018. This volume is about the pilot study of trying to understand
whether it is relevant to explore social media as a composite measure while also thinking about
how the genders would differ. This study talks about how adolescents are spending a lot of time
on social media and studying how this factor is associated to their mental health has become an
important focus point of their research. Other studies have focused on just the social media use in
general and have overlooked the factor of social media activity. This means that the differences
association between social media and mental health in teens since their study includes more than
just the general use of social media. The audience for this piece are researchers who are trying to
discover more about social media and its use as a composite construct to try and explore more
about its relation with mental health. This article is reliable because even though its a pilot study,
the authors are discovering more about this topic than the other studies normally do because they
have another factor that could recall for more accurate results. The authors are also reliable
because Joana de Calheiros Velozo is a graduate from Maastricht University who is now a
Contextual Psychiatry and a researcher for KU Leuven. The other author, Johannes E A Stauder,
is also a graduated from Maastricht University with a PHD and now he is teaching at the
I plan on using this source to help further my insight on how social media affects
adolescents mental health. If what this study says is true about how they have more accurate
information, then I can use a lot of information that's not going to be included in other studies.
Weinstein, Emily. “The Social Media See-Saw: Positive and Negative Influences on
Adolescents’ Affective Well-Being.” New Media & Society, vol. 20, no. 10,
This sixth source is called “The Social Media See-Saw: Positive and Negative Influences
on Adolescents’ Affective Well-Being.”, it was written by Emily Weinstein, and it was first
published on February 21, 2018, but the issue was later published on October 1, 2018. This
research article is about the relationship between social media usage and the well-being of
teenagers, whether enhanced or degraded, and how its not confined to an “either/or” framework.
Both positive and negative influences have an important role in the “emotional see-saw” of
social media. The surveys they conducted portrayed social media use as, for the most part, a
positive influence, while the interviews that were conducted revealed both positive and negative.
The writer’s purpose of this research article is to inform both sides of the issue with
social media. She wanted people to have all the information about the effects it has on
adolescents. The audience for this piece is mainly for anyone that’s doing research, weather that
be a professional or even a parent, it’s out there for anyone that needs/wants it. This source is
reliable because it’s an unbiased research article that has a lot of trustworthy information. The
author used her own research in this article with surveys and interviews that she conducted
herself. The author herself is also reliable because she graduated from Harvard Graduate School
of Education and she has written a good amount of other articles that consider the health of
adolescents.
I plan on using this research article to learn and write about both the positive and negative
side of my topic. Doing this will make my essay come across as unbiased and trustworthy. I also
plan on using her information she found in her surveys and interviews to help with the legitimacy
of my evidence.
“Too Much Social Media Can Make Your Teen Depressed.” Pakistan Press International
Too Much Social Media Can Make Your Teen Depressed Comments,
ppinewsagency.com/too-much-social-media-can-make-your-teen-depressed/.
This final source is called “Too Much Social Media Can Make Your Teen Depressed.”, it
was written by the PPI, and it first appeared on July 18, 2019. This source is about how even
though in some ways the internet and social media can cause teens to be more social, it also
impacts their mental health in a negative way. It states that for many years now, social media has
been considered the main threat when it comes to the mental health of its users. Research has
linked social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook to high levels of anxiety and
depression on the teenagers of today’s society. They have a lot of research to suggest that the
more teens spend on these social media platforms, the more likely they are to be depressed. Since
the more technology advances, the more screen time teenagers get, but this also increases their
depressive state. The article concludes by talking about how early identification of depression
gives clinicians and parents a large window of time in which to intervene, so they can help these
teenagers have a more healthy lifestyle. Regulating these teens’ on how much social media and
television they use is one way to help young people manage their depression.
The writer’s purpose of this article is to help spread the word of this in their country to
their clinicians and parents. Since this is a Pakistan article, their goal is to inform the people
living there about the information and evidence they got from different studies. The audience for
this piece are the clinicians and parents in pakistan who need extra information on how social
media is affecting their teens. This article is reliable because it was posted on a popular Pakistan
Press International website, every source they used as evidence was cited in their article, so you
I plan on using this article to see if Pakistan has the same results in their studies as we do
here in ours. It’s a good source to see how different these studies are and to see how the results
came out. It will be a good comparison to use when describing how teens are affected differently
by social media.