This article written by multiple professors of Istanbul University, such as Rüstem Mustafaoğlu, displays how technology can have negative effects on health and development in children. They argue that modern technologies have affected “physical inactivity, obesity, and inadequate sleep quality.” This can all be due to “content, duration, frequency, and the posture they adopt” while using these devices. The use of these technological devices too much is referred to as inappropriate. The study seems to focus on development. I want to incorporate the studies they have highlighted and reasons indicated why technology has become a negative for children, largely in part from unnecessary or overbearing use.
Mustafaoğlu, Rüstem, et al. “The negative effects of digital technology usage on children’s development and health.” Addicta: The Turkish Journal on Addictions 5.2 (2018): 13-21.
Monica Anderson and Jingjing Jiang of the Pew Research Center highlight teens’ use of technology in this article. These two authors attempted to display the dependency many teens have to social media and their cell phone. They displayed that according to their study “95% of teens have access to a smartphone, and 45% say they are online almost constantly.” (Need to verify the 95% of teens; who are these people and where are they located, what financial background, etc.). They also illustrate the cultural shift from Facebook to other apps like YouTube, Instagram, and Snapchat. I want to mention this in my paper and discuss this shift furthermore. I also want to examine the thoughts that teens have on if social media has a positive or negative impact.
Anderson, Monica, and Jingjing Jiang. “Teens, social media & technology 2018.” Pew Research Center 31.2018 (2018): 1673-1689.
This article written by multiple people for the American Academy of Pediatrics, goes into detail about how lack of connectivity can cause various forms of anxiety if someone is cell phone or technology dependent. They also bring up how this can contribute to symptoms of social anxiety disorder when having a reliance on the internet. Communication skills and typical conversation suffers from this. Uncomfortability and avoidance can then lead to depression. I want to mention how researchers found that greater amounts of text messaging were associated with higher anxiety and depression levels. The feeling of being dependent on text messaging is associated with depression. This article also mentions how the feeling of connectivity can be a benefit. This is important to discuss in my paper for a potential counterargument. It seems too much internet with reliance and dependency is where the problem lies.
Hoge, Elizabeth, David Bickham, and Joanne Cantor. “Digital media, anxiety, and depression in children.” Pediatrics140.Supplement_2 (2017): S76-S80.
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In this article from the book Children and Youth Services Review, a pilot study on adolescents was conducted to see the use and effect technology plays in young teens’ lives. I want to be sure to mention that 92% of American teens between 13 and 17 go online daily and of that 92%, 24% are online constantly. I want to emphasize this technology driven and information flashing or appearing society that is among us. This article also mentions benefits and downsides in social media and technology. “Facebook depression” is mentioned which is used to describe symptoms of depression that come from long term use on social media. I also want to include how social media contributes to lowering feelings of social loneliness, but does not apply to emotional loneliness. By interacting on social media, many are empowered with fitting in socially. However, it is almost like a simulation or mockery as it does not supply the emotional need.
de Calheiros Velozo, Joana, and Johannes EA Stauder. “Exploring social media use as a composite construct to understand its relation to mental health: A pilot study on adolescents.” Children and Youth Services Review 91 (2018): 398-402.
Pedrero-Pérez, Eduardo J., et al. “Information and Communications Technologies (ICT): Problematic use of Internet, video games, mobile phones, instant messaging and social networks using MULTICAGE-TIC.” Adicciones 30.1 (2018).
Twenge, Jean M. “Increases in depression, self‐harm, and suicide among US adolescents after 2012 and links to technology use: possible mechanisms.” Psychiatric Research and Clinical Practice 2.1 (2020): 19-25.
Srivastava, Kalpana, et al. “Social media and mental health challenges.” Industrial Psychiatry Journal 28.2 (2019): 155.
Muflih, Muflih, and Tia Amestiasih. “Effect of social media addiction on anxiety and the risk of social health disaster in adolescents.” Indonesian Nursing Journal of Education and Clinic (INJEC) 3.1 (2018): 28-35.
Spencer, these annotations are starting to give me a sense of how your project is developing. It’s a tightly focused bibliography. Everything you look at is very recent, and this is generally a good thing! This fact does lead me to one suggestion: at some point in the process, you might ask yourself “Did earlier tech shifts—eg, the rise of television, the rise of video games—produce parallel reactions and concerns?” (It’s likely that some of your sources will in fact consider this very question, but I wanted to point it out…)
Now, the thing that jumps out at me from reading your annotations together is the distinction between “social / emotional loneliness”—is that a distinction that appears in the other sources? Is it a distinction that you could pick up as a keyterm and discuss, and use to help structure your essay?