a) Author’s scholarly credentials (discipline? institutional affiliation? other important works?) 
b) Nature of author’s project (theory? disciplines? important authors?) 
c) Paraphrase / summary of work’s major claim 
d) Work’s use(s) for your project: use the B-TEAM language! 
e) Significance/possible limitations or biases/special features of the work?–e.g., glossary,  
appendices, particularly good index) 

Source 1: https://revistas.uned.es/index.php/empiria/article/view/23249/18765  

• The author Goran Bolin is a professor of media studies at the University of Sweeden. He is also the author of many media and culture related books.  
• In this article, he is talking primarily about generational landscapes. The main point he is trying to get across is that generational identities develop over time.  
• This could be useful for me because it talks a lot about generational identities, and I am describing gen z as one of the most mediated generations which could be some sort of identity. He also talks about media landscapes and how social media can shape our lives and how our lives can shape social media. This allows me to incorporate the aspects of mental health because social media shapes are mental health while we shape what is seen on social media.  
• The only limitation to this source is that it does not touch on the idea of poor mental health caused by social media; however, it does give me generational theories that back my point of gen z’s generational identity.  

Source 2: Reifova, Irena Carpentier, and Sylvie Fiserova. “Ageing On-Line in Risk Society: Elderly People Managing the New Risks via New Media in the Context of Decreasing Ontological Security.” Cyberpsychology, vol. 6, no. 2, Sept. 2012, pp. 1–9. EBSCOhost, https://doi.org/10.5817/CP2012-2-5. ]  

• Ageing on-line in risk society is a study about elderly generations and their use of social media. It goes into the details of how it can either benefit them or how it could help them. The study is written by Irena Carpentier Reifova who works at Charles University in the Social Sciences and Department of Media Studies. She works on critical media studies and has an interest in popular culture. This was also written by Sylvie Fiserova who is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Media Studies. She has a master’s degree in Media Studies and is working on her PhD project that deals with the usage of new media by middle-aged people. The study is talking about how older generations do not necessarily find the internet and new innovative technologies that useful. It also goes into the risks that social media has. It can be a risk to your health and to your own ontological security, which is a sense of order and stability in regard to your own life. The one shortcoming may have been that the study is targeting a very high-level audience so it could be difficult to understand it at times.  

Source 3: https://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2573&context=buspapers  

• The author, Charles Areni, is a professor at the university of Wollongong, and works for a marketing research and consultancy business.  
• The main idea of this source is ontological security, the security one has in their own life, and how people compensate with a lack of ontological security. A long with this, one of the sources sub categories talks about the increasing usage of social media and how it can cause an addiction.  
• Talking about this addiction and how it relates to ontological security goes exactly with my argument of increasing social media usage leads to poor mental health.  
• A limitation I could see with this source is it does not really seem to tie together ontological security and a lack of it to social media usage.  

Source 4: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0231924  

• The author Jungling Gao’s affiliations are with the School of Public Health and Fudan Institute of Health communication.  
• This source takes a survey of teenagers following the pandemic and surveys their exposure to social media and their mental health status. The results of this study show that the pandemic led to increased social media usage which resulted in an uprising in anxiety and depression.  
• I could use this to prove that the more people on social media, the more mental health problems there are. During the pandemic, one of the only things people could do was spend time on Instagram, tik tok, snapchat, and you tube. Because of this, mental health issues became increasingly more prevalent.  
• I believe this source will be very helpful with the statistical and data analysis it gives.  

Source 5: https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.1089/cyber.2016.0444 

Source 6: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02673843.2019.1590851