Aaron Patton

Becker, Mark W. Alzahabi, Reem. Hopwood, Christopher J. “Media Multitasking Is Associated with Symptoms of Depression and Social Anxiety”. Cyberpsychology, Behavior and Social Networking. Feb 2013. Web. Feb 2016 8.

“The recent dramatic increase in media use has been accompanied by a rising concern that interactions with media may be replacing face-to-face interactions, resulting in lower quality social interactions and impaired psychosocial functioning.” The multitasking phenomenon that is common throughout most citizens living today in America, is linked to social regression or lack of social development. This article is very beneficial and packed with endless amounts of information on my topic.

Weightman, Michael James. Air, Tracy Michele. Baune, Bernhard Theodor. “A review of the role of social cognition in major depressive disorder”. Frontiers in Psychiatry. December 2014. Feb 2016 8.

“The difficulties with social interaction observed in major depressive disorder may, at least in part, be due to an altered ability to correctly interpret emotional stimuli and mental states.” Using social media as a main source of social interactions doesn’t allow for true social development between humans, therefore the psychological mind of the being doesn’t recognize emotions “correctly”.

Baruth, Katey. “Psychological Aspects of Social Media and Mental Well-Being.” Journal of Human Services. September 2014. Feb 2016 8.

“Social media puts an interesting lens on the creation of our digital selves in addition to being the catalyst for drastically changing the way people interact in today’s society.” SInce 1997, when SixDegrees was created, the first social media website, there have been thoughts of how humans would react to one another through artificial intelligence. Would artificial feelings develop, would social networking itself grow, and would relationships develop the same way. There have been tests since social media began on all these ideas.

Gentzler, Amy L. “College Students’ Use of Electronic Communication with Parents: Links to Loneliness, Attachment, and Relationship Quality”. CyberPsychology, Behavior and Social Networking. January 2011. Feb 2016 8.

“ Results indicated that students who report more frequent phone conversations with parents also report more satisfying, intimate, and supportive parental relationships, but those students who use a social-networking site to communicate with parents report higher levels of loneliness, anxious attachment, as well as conflict within the parental relationship. “ The usage of social media platforms allows others to communicate with one another, however there is never true face-to-face interaction. This leads to detachment, social anxiety, and lonesome emotions that are never fully or truly developed over the phone.

Weisskirch, Robert S.; Delevi, Raquel. In Computers in Human Behavior. November 2013 29. Feb 2016 8.

“Text messaging was the most common form of technology to initiate or receive a breakup. Greater attachment anxiety predicted being the recipient of a technology-mediated dissolution. Positive attitudes towards conflict resolution predicted having initiated a breakup via technology”. College students partake in surveys that basically tested for relationship strengths and weaknesses through technological uses. The relationships that were based off technology were not successful and they had greater chances of attachment anxiety, rather than the couple that began in real life interactions.

Al-Saggaf, Yeslam; Nielsen, Sharon. In Computers in Human Behavior. July 2014. Feb 2016 8.

“The results of this study have shown that more ‘lonely’ people disclosed their Personal Information, Relationship Information, and Address than ‘connected’ people and more ‘connected’ people disclosed their Views and their Wall than ‘lonely’ people. The study has found no other significant associations between loneliness and the other variables.” They took around 600 women on facebook and about half of them were deemed ‘connected’ and the other half ‘lonely’. The results came back stating that, More lonely people disclosed private information such as Address than the connected. Less lonely people did not disclose any private information compared to the connected. Less lonely people disclosed their Views and their Wall than those connected people. More lonely people did not disclose Views and their Wall compared to connected people

Morey, Jennifer N.; Gentzler, Amy L.; Creasy, Brian; Oberhauser, Ann M.; Westerman, David. In Computers in Human Behavior. July 2013 29. Feb 2016 8.

“Electronic communication channels (phone and texting) were related to positive relationship qualities, however, once accounting for attachment, only moderated effects were found. Interactions indicated texting was linked to more positive relationships for highly avoidant (but not less avoidant) participants. Additionally, email use was linked to more conflict for highly avoidant (but not less avoidant) participants. Finally, greater use of a SNS was positively associated with intimacy/support for those higher (but not lower) on attachment anxiety.” This study illustrates how attachment can help to explain why the use of specific technology-based communication channels within romantic relationships may mean different things to different people, and that certain channels may be especially relevant in meeting insecurely attached individuals’ needs.

Terlip, Laura A.; Chen, Shing-Ling; Johns, Mark D. In: Studies in Symbolic Interaction. Bingley : Emerald Group Publishing. 2014. eBook. Feb 2016 8.

The book talks about the different social interactions, identity shifts, and changes in action due to social media. The social media allows for different ways of communication, for example in person one can not simply change their physical attributes, voice, and the way they hold themselves. However, on a social media web page such as facebook they can change all these and more. The only things that typically do not differ from in person and online interaction is the true person on the inside that the expose to the other person.

Niemer, Ellen. Teenagers and Social Media. Alive: Canada’s Natural Health & Wellness Magazine. Sep2012, Issue 359, p20-29. Feb 2016 8.

The magazine article talks about how social media is affecting how parents and their children effectively communicate with each other in today’s day and age. The social skills aren’t as strong or fully developed as they once were due to the availability of these networks. Parents are struggling to get to their child on an emotional level, due to the fact that the social media websites subdue or lack the ability to help the teen develop psychologically and emotionally.

Tufekci, Zeynep.The Social Internet: Frustrating, Enriching, but Not Lonely.  Public Culture. Winter2014, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p13-23. Feb 2016 8.

It mentions the increase in the use of social media which provides a faceless, disembodied environment for communication and social interaction. “It presents the opposing effects of the Internet such as limiting close family ties and at the same time widening affinity-based ties with people of the same race, interest and circumstance”. The use of the Internet to connect and not isolate oneself from society is suggested. It also eludes to the idea that the internet is not a lonely place externally, but tracking through the human’s’ internal mind and thought process, there are two completely different meanings of loneliness through social media usage.

Through triangulation I was able to annotate 10 different sources for this assignment. I searched through the library tool using a multitude of keywords that linked to my topic. For example, i used social media, interactions, and depression to locate sources, scholarly articles, magazines, books, and more on my topic. I revised and edited these sources by reading through the articles, which were somewhat lengthy at times, and then picked out parts that would best fit into my paper. For example, I selected a source that would argue the other side of my argument on this topic for my refutation statement to strengthen the body of my conclusion.