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Ryan Haines

Mrs. E

English 1102

February 28, 2013

Annotated Bibliography Introduction This collection of works was gathered to gain insight knowledge about how Media affect the average teenager. With these works I plan to look into my line of inquiry of how exactly media plays a role in the average teen life and how it has positive and negative effects on them. At first I had planned to do my research on the effect of media on college student grade point averages, but with the limited amount of research, I broadened my horizon to a bigger topic that could be better researched and developed. Work 1 Nichols, Sharon L, and Thomas L. Good. America's Teenagers-Myths and Realities: Media Images, Schooling, and the Social Costs of Careless Indifference. Mahwah, N.J: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004. Print. This book goes in to the study of how media affects the American youths culture. It is seen that many teenagers are left by youth to socialize themselves. The authors Sharon L. Nichols and Thomas L. Good use this book to analyze how the typical youth interacts and

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understanding some of the key issues they go through. Key topics Nichols and Good touch one are youth violence; sex lives of teenagers; tobacco, alcohol, drugs and teens; healthy living and decision making; working teens; and how all of this has been affected by the media. The literature has some key topics I want to talk about in my paper, such as youth violence and alcohol and drug use. I believe this book is a good stepping stone in the right place for me to find out where exactly the research for this topics goes and to figure out for myself what more is there to actually research about that is not included in this book. I do not plan to use the whole book, but particular chapters such as: Youth and Media or Media, Sex, and the Adolescent. I am finding more reinforcement, reading about how much the 61% of teens uses a computer daily. This shows me that the average teen does use the computer on a daily basis for some sort of reason. Work 2 edr rancesc. Connected Minds: Technology and Today's Learners. Paris: OECD, 2012. Print. This research novel is based around education and how learning has been affected since the introduction of digital media. The author, Francesc Pedro, talks about how in this generation we are constantly connected and always rapidly changing. He uses research evidence and statistics to draw conclusions about the effects of technology adoption on cognitive development, social values, and learning expectation. Also he goes to find how this change in technology has affected our education system in anyway and if so how has that affected our youth. The work by Francesc has shown me how connected our lives are to one another and also

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to the media itself self. This research has changed my line of inquiry a bit to look into how connected we are and the affect this has had on teenagers. Almost all teenagers are going through schooling, with a few exceptions, that being said a huge part of their life is their school work. If media affects this then that is key in how it affects their whole lives. What I have found from this book is that media is somewhat helping education grow by using it as an advantage to keep students more engaged in school. Most students prefer for their teachers to use some sort of technology then paper or pencil because they fill they learn more from that experience. This has shined a light on my topic that education can actually grow from media, not be harmed. Work 3 Roberts, Donald F, and Ulla G. Foehr. Kids and Media in America. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Print. Novel is a report of national, random sample survey of US children and adolescents use various media. This research goes back 30 years, showing the changes and progression of movement. The books author, Donald Roberts, goes on to define the different types of youth media users for the first time. The book is filled with statistics, graphs, tables, and more to better demonstrate the changes of the youths society over the past 30 years. Also he makes an effort to distinguish between age groups and genders when doing his research to show the development of children through media. The report seems to be a graphical analysis that will be necessary in doing my paper, allowing me to visual see what changes have happened. Although this book was printed in 2004, and media has changed so much, it shows information back to 1974, allowing me to see where

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media starts from. Being able to see the changes in media would allow me to see why it changed and what patterns have happened. Also following these patterns would allow me to make an educated guess about what the future will be for Media and teens. Overall, usages will come in direct affect with how teens are effected by media, so this book is needed to see a trend of usages in teens Work 4 Sivashanker, Karthik. Cyberbullying and the Digital Self. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.. 52 (February 2013): 113-115. Web. This journal was written by a psychiatrist, talking about a previous patient she had helped with online media. The patient had been cyber bullied through websites like Facebook, and had attempted suicide. In this article, Sivashanker, talks about a digital self, this is a digital version of ones self. It is our social networking profile and in some cases this is a bigger part of our lives then we like to admit, says Sivashanker. Her patient deleted her account that had been bullied, but not soon after did she show more signs of depression and suicidal thoughts. With the death of her Digital Self she felt that death was upon her, so Sivashanker gave her an outlet through a blog. Through this blog she was able to give her voice out and communicate with other going through the same situations. Depression left her completely as she became more involved in this experiment and accepted it as her new Digital self. This research journal really opened up my eyes to some of the major side effects of using media in a negative way. One of the key things I saw from this article was the Digital Self. This description of the role media plays in our lives becomes clear throughout the article. Whenever we talk about teenagers and media one of the hottest topics to talk about is cyber bullying and

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teen suicide, which were two topics I want to hit when doing my research paper. With this article I am able to see a true story and the analysis by a professional what happened and why.