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Jaden Angle

English 1102-041

Ms. Caruso

Intertextual Annotated Bibliography

February 21, 2013

How Does Social Media Affect Health?

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Social media is powerful and impactful to every ones health in todays society. That is

why my main inquiry question is How does social media affect health? With this question I

explored different affects social media had on health by following leads and questions. From

this main question I found three main articles to start my inquiry. The three main articles I

obtained from my main inquiry question are Social Media Causing a Generation of Narcissistic

Kids?by Sara Novak, Social medias effect on rape cultureby Anna Wagner, andHow Does

Social Media Affect Self Esteem? by Jennifer Rose. From these articles I constructed and in depth

exploration of my main inquiry question.

The first article from my main question, Social Media Causing a Generation of

Narcissistic Kids?, explains how facebook and other social media networks are influencing teens

behavior and affecting their psychological makeup. According to this article Dr. Larry Rosen, a

social media researcher at California State University explains, "Teens who use Facebook more

often show more narcissistic tendencies while young adults who have a strong Facebook

presence show more signs of other psychological disorders, including antisocial behaviors,
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mania and aggressive tendencies."(Novak par.6). After reading this article I caught myself

pondering what the word narcissistic meant, so to fully understand what affect this article was

trying to convey I needed to find out what narcissistic meant. Which lead me to my next

question, What is Narcissism?. That question leads me to my next article called, Narcissistic

Personality Disorder. In this article my question was answered, I found out that someone who is

Narcissistic is obsessed with themselves to the extreme. This article goes on to describes a basic

outline and provides some words that we might place with Narcissism which are; cocky,

conceded, selfish, and arrogant.

My second article I obtained from my main question is Social medias effect on rape

cultureby Anna Wagner. I found this article to be quite surprising. It goes into detail about

social media and how it contributes to the rape culture we live in. Which I was unaware of this

rape culture, but in this article it is stated, "Marshall Universitys womens studies department in

West Virginia defines rape culture as an environment in which rape is prevalent and in which

sexual violence against women is normalized and excused in the media and popular

culture."(Wagner par.4). The social media site it was referring to was Reddit, which I have never

heard of before. Thus sparking my interest and leading me to my next question, What is this

Reddit site doing to contribute to this rape culture. This lead directed me to the article,Reddit

Rape Thread: Why I Dont Care What Rapists Have To Say by Abbey Lewis. It talks about how

Reddit posted a thread recently encouraging rapists to come forward and tell their side of the

story. Abbey feels this thread is blaming and shaming the victims. She goes on to say, In fact,

paying attention to them before we pay attention to the countless silenced victims sounds exactly

like rape culture to me."(Lewis par.5). This article really opened my eyes to something I never

thought social media could affect.


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Lastly, my main question leads me to the article,How Does Social Media Affect Self

Esteem? by Jennifer Rose. In this article I found that social media affects different genders and

even different generations in numerous ways. It goes on to explain, that both male and female

teens may experience depression because of cyberbullying or getting left out of larger social

interactions (Rose par.3). Also this article touches on topics such as, social media is not always a

bad thing for the user, which generated my next lead, and that lead is, Is social media a good or

bad thing for health?. From this question I was steered to three different articles. The First

source was Social Media: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly by Paul Hudson. This source

adventures through the concept that social media can be good and at the same time be bad. Paul

Hudson concludes this article by saying this about social media, "If used properly, it can lead to a

feeling of connectedness and help you flourish both in your personal life and career. Used

improperly and you will find yourself with additional stress and less time to deal with it. Social

media can be a great thing if used in moderation; nevertheless, it will never be able to take the

place of actual, in-person human interaction."(Hudson par.14). My second source from that lead

was,Hospitals begin to recognize social medias potential to improve patient experience by Ann

Silversides and Joshua Tepper. This article just goes on to explain how hospitals are using

facebook and twitterto interact with patients by letting them comment or mention on the

hospitals twitter or facebook accounts about their experience and things that the hospital could

improve on or even things the patients liked, which happened to be fascinating to me, because I

was not aware that hospitals were utilizing social media in such a way. The last source I

obtained is called, Can social media be good for your health by Anne Weiler. This article talks

about how social support has been an important factor in encouraging exercise and healthy

decisions. It also states that, "With geographically dispersed families and friends and extremely


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busy lifestyles, sometimes social networks like Facebook or Twitter provide that social

engagement that would have previously been in person. As a result, people are sharing more and

more about their health on social networks."(Weiler par.1). From these three articles I still find

myself pondering the question Is social media a good or bad thing for health?, but from my

exploration I feel that you can find just as many good things as you can bad that social media

does for health.

From social media affecting the rape culture, Narcissistic kids, self-esteem, to helping

hospitals improve patients experience; I am left with the notion that social media contributes to a

multitude of good and bad things for health. I feel that social media truly is one of the most

powerful impactful tools to every ones life in our society.

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