This document discusses how social media may create a schism between parents and their adolescent children. It explores how increased social media usage can decrease important family interactions needed for healthy attachment. Excessive social media use by parents can distract them and make them less attuned to their children. However, social media also allows connection with distant family and sharing of family moments. The document examines different perspectives on how social media impacts family communication and relationships.
This research assesses the effects of modern media technologies on the parent-child relationship whether positive or negative. Technological solutions are intended for improving the quality of life on the planet by easing day to day tasks. Modern media technologies have pervaded almost every aspect of the human experience today including behavior. This has resulted in both desirable and undesirable impacts on the aspects of life that are affected by these technologies. An apt example of an instance where the use of modern media technologies has impacted profoundly is upon the parent-child relationship. The aim is to highlight possible benefits and detriments which usage of these technologies has had within the household as far as parent-child relationships. This study will be qualitative conducted through analysis of relevant and recent literature due to the dynamic nature of this field of research, participant observation and questionnaires will also be used. The study will also use snowballing to increase the scope of literature used.
TECHNOLOGY’S EFFECTS ON COLLEGE RELATIONSHIPS (ENTERPRISE NEWS STORY)Miranda Bator
November, 2015: Written at GVSU in CMJ 256: News Reporting, this enterprise story was assigned with the purpose of covering a current issue on campus. By observing the constant need for millennials to use technology, I chose this topic. After a variety of interviews and research conducted, this story was compiled and carefully written with the target audience in mind.
This research assesses the effects of modern media technologies on the parent-child relationship whether positive or negative. Technological solutions are intended for improving the quality of life on the planet by easing day to day tasks. Modern media technologies have pervaded almost every aspect of the human experience today including behavior. This has resulted in both desirable and undesirable impacts on the aspects of life that are affected by these technologies. An apt example of an instance where the use of modern media technologies has impacted profoundly is upon the parent-child relationship. The aim is to highlight possible benefits and detriments which usage of these technologies has had within the household as far as parent-child relationships. This study will be qualitative conducted through analysis of relevant and recent literature due to the dynamic nature of this field of research, participant observation and questionnaires will also be used. The study will also use snowballing to increase the scope of literature used.
TECHNOLOGY’S EFFECTS ON COLLEGE RELATIONSHIPS (ENTERPRISE NEWS STORY)Miranda Bator
November, 2015: Written at GVSU in CMJ 256: News Reporting, this enterprise story was assigned with the purpose of covering a current issue on campus. By observing the constant need for millennials to use technology, I chose this topic. After a variety of interviews and research conducted, this story was compiled and carefully written with the target audience in mind.
Social media and young people's mental health and wellbeingmResearcher
Social media has revolutionised the way we connect with each other. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are now used by one in four people worldwide.1 The use of social media has become an integral part of many people’s lives, connecting them with friends, family and strangers from across the globe.
The Central Nervous System Center, P.L.L.C. (CNS Center of Arizona) seeks to promote patient-centered, comprehensive clinical care. CNS Center of Arizona pursues excellence in clinical and evidence-based initiatives in areas related to psychiatric disorders. Our services include psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and individual psychotherapy. Please contact us at (480) 367-1500.
Impacts of social networking site (sns) on growing up adolescent girls a stud...NAAR Journal
Nowadays the internet has gained paramount importance in the education arena. The main objective of the study is to identify the impacts of social networking sites (SNS) on growing up adolescent girls in KCC. To identify the nature of browsing the internet, to find out how social sites help to increase the knowledge level, to know the impact of using a social networking site. The study was conducted through a survey research design. For this study, purposive sampling was used. Samples were collected from the 13 to 18-year girls. The total sample size was 100. The average age of using the internet for the first time of the respondents was 17.71 years old. The study shows that teenagers were positively affected as social media helped in increasing their communication abilities, getting information, developing their technical skills, and how they can effectively use this recent technology.
How is digital media affecting us at a neurological level? How is this in turn impacting how consumers process advertising messages and how can brands respond? Core Media Strategy Division explores some emerging themes.
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Annotated Bibliography
Should social media access be limited or prevented for young children.
O'Keffe, G. e. (2011). The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families.
Excessive computer use is keep able of affecting children's social growth. At the age of around seven years, the interaction of a child with family, school, friends, community and media all play a central role in the growth of interpersonal skills and social competence of the child. Computers are now part of that stage of development and alarms have been sounded that children who have too much access to computers create electronic friendships and might be mired in building interpersonal skills. To reduce the high risk of obesity, and other harmful effects of prolonged media exposure, the American Academy of Pediatrics has always advised parents to reduce the time spent children spend on video games, computers and other media to not more than one to two hours a day, and to encourage them to explore different activities like sports, cycling or imaginative play.
David D. Luxton, P. a. (2012). Social Media and Suicide: A Public Health Perspective.
Social media may also pose a threat to vulnerable people through the formation and influence of extreme online groups that promote and provide support for beliefs and behaviors normally unacceptable by most society for example anorexia, suicide, and intentional body harm. Users that support eating disorder or sites that support suicide can find support and acceptance that they have not found through other means. These online groups may provide support; they pose a risk to the public by encouraging weak individuals to harm themselves.
There is evidence that social media can influence suicide behavior. The Internet removes geographic barriers to communication between people, the creation of pro-suicide social media sites creates a new risk to vulnerable people who might not have been exposed to these imminent hazards.
The developing data regarding the influence of the Internet and social media on suicide behavior have states that these forms of technology may introduce different threats to the public including new opportunities for assistance and prevention. Since social media are generally created and organized by end users, the available chance for monitoring and prevention can be drawn-out to all users. To facilitate this user-driven approach to shadowing and prevention, all social media sites could embrace the simple using methods which allow users to raise the alarm in case of mischievous Web sites.
Dinleyici, M. e. (n.d.). Media Use by Children, and Parents’ Views on Children's Media Usage. Journal of medical research.
The author states that majority of parents are aware that 13 years is the least age for most social media sites, but they do not understand the reason. However, 13 years is the minimum age set out by legislations in various states and most online si ...
Unit III Research ProposalFollow the directions below for the co.docxmarilucorr
Unit III Research Proposal
Follow the directions below for the completion of the Research Proposal assignment for Unit III. If you have questions, please email your professor for assistance.
Purpose: The purpose of the research proposal is to help you to understand your project, to gain direction and feedback on your project, and to establish a blueprint for your project.
Description: In this assignment, you will create a research proposal consisting of three sections:
Section 1: What is the topic? (100-150 words)
Section 2: What is the controversy? Include paragraphs that detail both sides of the controversy. (300-400 words)
Section 3: Your tentative thesis statement (one to two sentences)
Click here to access the research proposal example.
My tentative argumentative thesis statement is, social media access should be limited or prevented for young children. Giving internet access freely to young children without adult supervision/consent can put themselves and family at risk of internet stalkers, child predators, cyber bullying, and identity theft. As stated, “Parental monitoring of children’s media influences children’s sleeping habits, school routine, social and aggressive behaviors, and that these impacts are reconciled through the amount of time spent watching and contact with media violence. Parental monitoring of media has defensive impact on a wide variety of academic, social, and physical child habits.” Doing my research, I learned that a lot of parents give internet access freely to their child and don’t think about the effects it will have on their developmental skills and health.
Running Head: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Annotated Bibliography
Should social media access be limited or prevented for young children.
O'Keffe, G. e. (2011). The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families.
Excessive computer use is keep able of affecting children's social growth. At the age of around seven years, the interaction of a child with family, school, friends, community and media all play a central role in the growth of interpersonal skills and social competence of the child. Computers are now part of that stage of development and alarms have been sounded that children who have too much access to computers create electronic friendships and might be mired in building interpersonal skills. To reduce the high risk of obesity, and other harmful effects of prolonged media exposure, the American Academy of Pediatrics has always advised parents to reduce the time spent children spend on video games, computers and other media to not more than one to two hours a day, and to encourage them to explore different activities like sports, cycling or imaginative play.
David D. Luxton, P. a. (2012). Social Media and Suicide: A Public Health Perspective.
Social media may also pose a threat to vulnerable people through the formation and influence of extreme online groups that promote and provide support for beliefs and behavi ...
Social media and young people's mental health and wellbeingmResearcher
Social media has revolutionised the way we connect with each other. Platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are now used by one in four people worldwide.1 The use of social media has become an integral part of many people’s lives, connecting them with friends, family and strangers from across the globe.
The Central Nervous System Center, P.L.L.C. (CNS Center of Arizona) seeks to promote patient-centered, comprehensive clinical care. CNS Center of Arizona pursues excellence in clinical and evidence-based initiatives in areas related to psychiatric disorders. Our services include psychiatric evaluation, medication management, and individual psychotherapy. Please contact us at (480) 367-1500.
Impacts of social networking site (sns) on growing up adolescent girls a stud...NAAR Journal
Nowadays the internet has gained paramount importance in the education arena. The main objective of the study is to identify the impacts of social networking sites (SNS) on growing up adolescent girls in KCC. To identify the nature of browsing the internet, to find out how social sites help to increase the knowledge level, to know the impact of using a social networking site. The study was conducted through a survey research design. For this study, purposive sampling was used. Samples were collected from the 13 to 18-year girls. The total sample size was 100. The average age of using the internet for the first time of the respondents was 17.71 years old. The study shows that teenagers were positively affected as social media helped in increasing their communication abilities, getting information, developing their technical skills, and how they can effectively use this recent technology.
How is digital media affecting us at a neurological level? How is this in turn impacting how consumers process advertising messages and how can brands respond? Core Media Strategy Division explores some emerging themes.
Running Head ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHYAnnotated Biblio.docxSUBHI7
Running Head: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Annotated Bibliography
Should social media access be limited or prevented for young children.
O'Keffe, G. e. (2011). The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families.
Excessive computer use is keep able of affecting children's social growth. At the age of around seven years, the interaction of a child with family, school, friends, community and media all play a central role in the growth of interpersonal skills and social competence of the child. Computers are now part of that stage of development and alarms have been sounded that children who have too much access to computers create electronic friendships and might be mired in building interpersonal skills. To reduce the high risk of obesity, and other harmful effects of prolonged media exposure, the American Academy of Pediatrics has always advised parents to reduce the time spent children spend on video games, computers and other media to not more than one to two hours a day, and to encourage them to explore different activities like sports, cycling or imaginative play.
David D. Luxton, P. a. (2012). Social Media and Suicide: A Public Health Perspective.
Social media may also pose a threat to vulnerable people through the formation and influence of extreme online groups that promote and provide support for beliefs and behaviors normally unacceptable by most society for example anorexia, suicide, and intentional body harm. Users that support eating disorder or sites that support suicide can find support and acceptance that they have not found through other means. These online groups may provide support; they pose a risk to the public by encouraging weak individuals to harm themselves.
There is evidence that social media can influence suicide behavior. The Internet removes geographic barriers to communication between people, the creation of pro-suicide social media sites creates a new risk to vulnerable people who might not have been exposed to these imminent hazards.
The developing data regarding the influence of the Internet and social media on suicide behavior have states that these forms of technology may introduce different threats to the public including new opportunities for assistance and prevention. Since social media are generally created and organized by end users, the available chance for monitoring and prevention can be drawn-out to all users. To facilitate this user-driven approach to shadowing and prevention, all social media sites could embrace the simple using methods which allow users to raise the alarm in case of mischievous Web sites.
Dinleyici, M. e. (n.d.). Media Use by Children, and Parents’ Views on Children's Media Usage. Journal of medical research.
The author states that majority of parents are aware that 13 years is the least age for most social media sites, but they do not understand the reason. However, 13 years is the minimum age set out by legislations in various states and most online si ...
Unit III Research ProposalFollow the directions below for the co.docxmarilucorr
Unit III Research Proposal
Follow the directions below for the completion of the Research Proposal assignment for Unit III. If you have questions, please email your professor for assistance.
Purpose: The purpose of the research proposal is to help you to understand your project, to gain direction and feedback on your project, and to establish a blueprint for your project.
Description: In this assignment, you will create a research proposal consisting of three sections:
Section 1: What is the topic? (100-150 words)
Section 2: What is the controversy? Include paragraphs that detail both sides of the controversy. (300-400 words)
Section 3: Your tentative thesis statement (one to two sentences)
Click here to access the research proposal example.
My tentative argumentative thesis statement is, social media access should be limited or prevented for young children. Giving internet access freely to young children without adult supervision/consent can put themselves and family at risk of internet stalkers, child predators, cyber bullying, and identity theft. As stated, “Parental monitoring of children’s media influences children’s sleeping habits, school routine, social and aggressive behaviors, and that these impacts are reconciled through the amount of time spent watching and contact with media violence. Parental monitoring of media has defensive impact on a wide variety of academic, social, and physical child habits.” Doing my research, I learned that a lot of parents give internet access freely to their child and don’t think about the effects it will have on their developmental skills and health.
Running Head: ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Annotated Bibliography
Should social media access be limited or prevented for young children.
O'Keffe, G. e. (2011). The Impact of Social Media on Children, Adolescents, and Families.
Excessive computer use is keep able of affecting children's social growth. At the age of around seven years, the interaction of a child with family, school, friends, community and media all play a central role in the growth of interpersonal skills and social competence of the child. Computers are now part of that stage of development and alarms have been sounded that children who have too much access to computers create electronic friendships and might be mired in building interpersonal skills. To reduce the high risk of obesity, and other harmful effects of prolonged media exposure, the American Academy of Pediatrics has always advised parents to reduce the time spent children spend on video games, computers and other media to not more than one to two hours a day, and to encourage them to explore different activities like sports, cycling or imaginative play.
David D. Luxton, P. a. (2012). Social Media and Suicide: A Public Health Perspective.
Social media may also pose a threat to vulnerable people through the formation and influence of extreme online groups that promote and provide support for beliefs and behavi ...
Computers in Human Behavior 39 (2014) 387–392Contents lists .docxpatricke8
Computers in Human Behavior 39 (2014) 387–392
Contents lists available at ScienceDirect
Computers in Human Behavior
j o u r n a l h o m e p a g e : w w w . e l s e v i e r . c o m / l o c a t e / c o m p h u m b e h
Five days at outdoor education camp without screens improves preteen
skills with nonverbal emotion cues
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2014.05.036
0747-5632/� 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/).
⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Department of Psychology, University of
California, Los Angeles, 616 Via De La Paz, Pacific Palisades, CA 90272, United
States. Tel.: +1 310 526 3316; fax: +1 310 230 7830.
E-mail address: [email protected] (Y.T. Uhls).
Yalda T. Uhls a,⇑, Minas Michikyan b, Jordan Morris c, Debra Garcia d,b, Gary W. Small e, Eleni Zgourou f,
Patricia M. Greenfield a
a Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Children’s Digital Media Center @ LA, United States
b Department of Psychology, California State University, Los Angeles, Children’s Digital Media Center @ LA, United States
c Department of Social Welfare, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
d Department of Education, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
e Department of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles, United States
f Department of Education, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Children’s Digital Media Center @ LA, United States
a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t
Article history:
Available online 15 August 2014
Keywords:
Social media
Nonverbal communication
Emotion
Adolescent
Social interaction
Development
A field experiment examined whether increasing opportunities for face-to-face interaction while elimi-
nating the use of screen-based media and communication tools improved nonverbal emotion–cue recog-
nition in preteens. Fifty-one preteens spent five days at an overnight nature camp where television,
computers and mobile phones were not allowed; this group was compared with school-based matched
controls (n = 54) that retained usual media practices. Both groups took pre- and post-tests that required
participants to infer emotional states from photographs of facial expressions and videotaped scenes with
verbal cues removed. Change scores for the two groups were compared using gender, ethnicity, media
use, and age as covariates. After five days interacting face-to-face without the use of any screen-based
media, preteens’ recognition of nonverbal emotion cues improved significantly more than that of the con-
trol group for both facial expressions and videotaped scenes. Implications are that the short-term effects
of increased opportunities for social interaction, combined with time away from screen-based media and
digital communication tools, improves a preteen’s understanding of nonverbal emotional cues.
� 2014 The Authors. Publish.
Should Children Be Allowed to Use Phones and Social MediaWha.docxedgar6wallace88877
Should Children Be Allowed to Use Phones and Social Media?
What happens when a dry sponge meets water? It will absorb as much water as possible. Sometimes, one could compare children with a sponge because of their tendency to imitate the behavior of people around them or get information from the internet and incorporate what they see into their lives. Due to the rapid development of the technological age, information on social media and the internet is diverse. Over the years, there has been a significant increase in the number of children using mobile phones and social media. The data given by Jacqueline Howard in the article “What's the Age When Kids Start Social Media?” reflects the large number of children who own mobile phones and use social media: The report showed that approximately 56% of the children had their own social media accounts, based on the parents’ survey responses. Among those children, the parents reported that the average age when initially signing up for the account was 12.6 years” (Howard). Considering these facts, parents have a reason to start worrying about their children's use of technology and social media. The topic of whether or not children should use mobile phones and social media has not only attracted the attention of many parents and experts, but also generated diverse opinions. On the one hand, proponents believe that children need to use social media to enable them learn basic social and technical skills, to make friends with people around the world more easily, and to learn from their peers online. On the other hand, opponents believe that it would have a bad effect on children's mental health. In some instances, cases such as cyber bullying could occur in children may not know how to respond to such issues. In extreme cases, increase use of phones and social could affect some children to an extent that they find it challenging to communicate well in real life. While there are a number of pros and cons associated with using mobile phones and social media, parental guidance is an appropriate strategy to address the cons.
Those who agree that children can use mobile phones and social media defend their position on the basis that children can easily understand the latest technology and learn basic social skills. In addition, the internet can broaden their horizons, help the children know current affairs, and provide them with an opportunity to obtain all sorts of newest knowledge and information. In later life, these children can engage in individual research. Using the Internet, children also get a chance to enrich their minds and acquire knowledge that schoolteachers are not in a position to offer. In addition, they can use social media to communicate with others. Some children lack confidence and dare not talk and communicate with the outside world. With the availability of the internet, these kids could easily overcome this psychological barrier and eventually broaden their horizon in the process of t.
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Final Prospectus
Argosy University
September 26, 2018
ABSTRACT
Social media is a dissenting topic, especially today. Some people have had the view that social media ruins human interaction not to mention real life human relationships. On the other hand, in the era of everything instant, the idea of living has drastically changed. Initially, people held the idea that life is too hard but with the advancement in technology it has now become a saying that life is easy. All this is attributable to modern technology and equally important globalization, in the sense that people are becoming more independent and interconnected. Social media has changed the world as people used to know it in the sense that people can do everything in an interconnected world that enables instant communication. Some of the most popular social networking includes Facebook, and Twitter among others. Similarly, in this era of social networking people’s idea of reality has greatly changed and people handle such things as relationship differently. This being the case, the objective of this paper is to develop a final prospectus regarding the impacts of social media. Mainly, the paper will focus its attention on the impact of social media and some of the ways that can be used to define the controversy between social media and youths below the 23 years of age.
Impact of Social Media
As mentioned in the discussion, there are many social networks to choose from such as Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram among others. In understanding how social media impacts the youth, it is imperative to look at both the pros and cons of social media on the youth. Essentially social media has reduced the world in a global village which means youths can share and interact easily and instant. Conferring with Ahn (2011), addiction to social media has resulted to poor performance in leaning institutions. Many bright students have resorted to bad behaviours because of social media. Ideally, social media has captured the attention of youths to an extent of not focusing on studies. The issue of mobile phones in learning institutions has invited an endless debate currently. Teachers have complained that students are using phones to connect with their friends and families through such networking sites like Facebook. This idea of using phones in classrooms has deteriorated student performance.
Additionally, youth are so addicted to social media that they do not study at home. Normally, students are supposed to maintain impartiality between social media and studies. This obsession with social media is detrimental to the youth lives. It is estimated that 70% of the district school block have access to social network sites. The rationale behind this is that online communities allow youths to build social capital. In other words, youths are able to access information, seek advice and share ideas through a network of relationships. Most of these SNS o.
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Effects of Social Media on the Youths
Institution
Name
Section One
The fact that social media has become part our daily live cannot be overlooked especially in the current innovations in technology. Access to devices such as smart phones and broadband internet has created an easy way through which any one can access any form of information that they want. Although the social media has played a special role in ensuring that the information that we is at our disposal, it has resulted in serious erosion of human morals and ethics. It is not surprising that people value their phones more than they do to their fellow human. However, this research will look at how the young people have been impacted by the social media.
The current widespread of the social are becoming an area of interest among the researchers especially about how it has affected the community around the world. Almost every individual is connected to at least one social media plat form and this has attracted the researchers to learn more about these platforms and how they have affected the community around. However, the most affected are the teenagers who have become fanatics of these platforms and have made them part of their daily life to an extent they cannot spend a minute without accessing them. This has never implication on their ethics, behavior and even their education.
Social media has both positive and negative implications to the youths and this paper seeks to address these impacts with a special focus on the youths.
The positive impacts is that the youths can interact with one another without meeting physically across the globe and this has enhanced creation of friendship and therefore, strong social ties. Moreover, the youths stay updated on the events that happen around the world at the comfort of their rooms or working places. Also, many youths have made the social media a source of their income and have utilized it to improve their lives through improved connections.
Despite the good aspects connected to the social media, it has the negative side too and this has bad implications on the youths. To begin with, social media reduces face to interactions as they spend most of their time in these online platforms. This isolation result in psychological, emotional mental and physical effects to the youths. The minor are also introduced to immoral behaviors such as homosexuality, lesbianism and other sexual misconducts. Further, the youths are exposed to pornographic content which result in early pregnancies among the young girls and also increase the chance of contracting sexually transmitted infections.
A comprehension of these issues will help the society find ways through which to reduce the youth prevalence to the problems associated with sta.
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Media Use, Face-to-Face Communication, Media Multitasking, and Social
Well-Being Among 8- to 12-Year-Old Girls
Roy Pea, Clifford Nass, Lyn Meheula, Marcus Rance, Aman Kumar, Holden Bamford, Matthew Nass,
Aneesh Simha, Benjamin Stillerman, Steven Yang, and Michael Zhou
Stanford University
An online survey of 3,461 North American girls ages 8 –12 conducted in the summer of 2010 through
Discovery Girls magazine examined the relationships between social well-being and young girls’ media
use—including video, video games, music listening, reading/homework, e-mailing/posting on social
media sites, texting/instant messaging, and talking on phones/video chatting—and face-to-face commu-
nication. This study introduced both a more granular measure of media multitasking and a new
comparative measure of media use versus time spent in face-to-face communication. Regression analyses
indicated that negative social well-being was positively associated with levels of uses of media that are
centrally about interpersonal interaction (e.g., phone, online communication) as well as uses of media that
are not (e.g., video, music, and reading). Video use was particularly strongly associated with negative
social well-being indicators. Media multitasking was also associated with negative social indicators.
Conversely, face-to-face communication was strongly associated with positive social well-being. Cell
phone ownership and having a television or computer in one’s room had little direct association with
children’s socioemotional well-being. We hypothesize possible causes for these relationships, call for
research designs to address causality, and outline possible implications of such findings for the social
well-being of younger adolescents.
Keywords: late childhood, social well-being, media, multitasking, computers
Extensive research has addressed social developmental pro-
cesses and outcomes and the many effects of media use (primarily
TV) on cognitive development (e.g., Calvert & Wilson, 2008;
Parke & Clarke-Stewart, 2010; Pecora, Murray, & Wartella, 2007).
Yet the intersections of social well-being and media use patterns in
the current era of multiscreen media multitasking (with TVs,
computers, and mobile devices) have not been examined. Another
key omission has been the failure to assess time spent in face-to-
face communication in studies of the relationships of media use on
social development. This oversight is important given the shift
from face-to-face communication to mediated interpersonal com-
munication, even among children (Rideout, Foehr, & Roberts,
2010).
This study examined this important set of relationships in a
large-scale survey on traditional and new media use and face-to-
face communication and social well-being indices in girls 8 to 12
years old. Specifically, we addressed the relationships between
these girls’ media use, face-to-face communication, and media
multitasking and their overall social success, feelings of accep-
tance and nor ...
Media exposure and education of first to six grade children from slovenia p...Lazar Stosic
The family environment plays an important role in influencing the way that children use the media and the degree of their exposure to media, however the mediating role of parents in this process is not sufficiently understood. The present paper presents the results of a 2016 Slovenian national survey in which opinions of 2,825 parents concerning their children’s exposure to media were collected and analysed using the SPSS PSAW Statistic 18 software package. Our results show that exposure to media by children from the first to the sixth grade increases with age, that children of parents who are themselves heavy media users are more likely to be heavy users and that children who are heavy media users also receive lower test scores.
ABSTACT: The contemporary world presents innumerable opportunities to people. With the advancement of technology, especially media which have brought forth revolutionary changes in human culture and civilization and make unique trends all over the world. In today’s society, media are thoroughly integrated into our life including electronic gadgets such as TV, Videogames, Smart phone, Internet, IPod etc. Adolescents are highly impressionable by the influence of media. It has both positive and negative impacts on adolescents’ lives. This study has shed light on the fact that the media has a disturbing potential to negatively affect many aspects of adolescents’ healthy development, store up anger, angry feelings and angry outburst.
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Xu 1
Lingyi Xu
Prof. Treat
DISC 1313
19 November 2019
Should Children Be Allowed to Use Phones and Social Media?
What happens when a dry sponge meets water? It will absorb as much water as it can. Sometimes children are like a sponge: they will imitate the behavior of people around them or get information from the Internet and incorporate what they see into their lives. Due to the rapid development of the technological age, information on social media and the Internet is diverse. Moreover, in the past few years, there has been a significant increase in the number of children using mobile phones and social media. The data given by Jacqueline Howard in the article “What's the Age When Kids Start Social Media?” reflect the large number of children who own mobile phones and use social media: “The report found that, overall, 56% of the children had their own social media accounts, based on the parents’ survey responses. Among those children, the parents reported that the average age when initially signing up for the account was 12.6 years” (Howard). As a result, parents begin to worry about their children's use of technology and social media. The topic of whether or not children are allowed to use mobile phones and social media has attracted the attention of many parents and experts and generated different opinions. On the one hand, proponents believe that children should use social media to learn basic social and technical skills, to make friends with people around the world more easily, and to learn from their peers online. On the other hand, opponents believe that it would have a bad effect on children's mental health. Cyber bullying may occur and children may be unable to communicate better in real life. There are a number of pros and cons that come with using mobile phones and social media, and parental guidance can make a difference.
People who agree that children can use mobile phones and social media think they can better understand the latest technology and learn basic social skills. The Internet can broaden children's horizons, can help the children know current affairs new, and can help them obtain all sorts of newest knowledge and information. In later life, these children can do research themselves. Through the Internet, children can enrich their minds obtain learn a lot of knowledge that cannot be learned in school by teachers. In addition, they can use social media to communicate with others. Some children lack confidence and dare not talk and communicate with the outside world. Now with the Internet, these kids may overcome this psychological barrier and broaden their horizon in the process of this victual communication. Children can meet other people with the same interests, they can quickly make more friends through the topics they are interested in, and they can learn to build and maintain friendships and relationships. This can benefit for children. According to Ronaldo Tumbokon, “Social networks actually make kids more rela ...
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Bruce W. Norcise
Excelsior College
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How has social Media affected today’s Youth?
Social Media is a prominent part of today's life, especially among young people. Unfortunately, the users of social media do not stop to think about the effects it has on their lives. For instance, people are becoming anti-social while they are at the same time desperate to make more friends on Facebook or get more followers on Twitter. People need to know the impact of social media, both negative and positive, rather than just engage blindly. While there are many positive aspects of social media, the negative aspects are equally many. To help make the right choices, this paper will be an analysis of the effects of social media on youths, and how the negative effects can be handled.
This paper will help youths and parents understand the dangers of social media and know the boundaries they should use as they use it. Failure to do so will cause them to fall to varying traps and dangers that will have negative consequences. Social media is one sector of the internet that is greatly used by criminals. On this site, youths get exposed to cyberbullying, online predators and sexting. These dangers should be discussed to let people know their damaging effects and how they can be avoided. Other than the above-mentioned dangers of using social media, there are effects that are rarely discussed. For instance, teens are not aware of the dangers of exposing their address on public platforms. This paper will expose these dangers and many more as well as provide the most appropriate solutions.
References
Agosto, D., & Abbas, J. (2010). High school seniors' social network and other ict use preferences and concerns. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 47(1),
Christakis, D. (2006). Media as a public health issue. Editorial. Archives ofPediatric and Adolescent Medicine
Donath, J. (2007). Signals in social supernets. Journal of Computer‐Mediated Communication, 13(1), article
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Journal of College & Character
The Impact of Social Media on College Students
Jeanna Mastrodicasa, University of Florida
Paul Metellus, University of Florida1
Abstract
There are numerous ways, positive and negative, in which social media impact college students.
Understanding sheer volume of time and the type of activities for which college students use social
networking sites is crucial for higher education administrators. Researchers have begun to empiri-
cally examine impacts on students’ well-being and have found some preliminary results that call for
more research. They find that social media are not the problem—the problem is the specific use and
purpose of social media activities that make the difference.
1 Jeanna Mastrodicasa is assistant vice president for student affairs at the University of Florida. E-mail: [email protected] Paul
Metellus is an undergraduate at.
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Negative Effects of Overusing Technology
Technology has become an essential part of people’s lives, and most individuals, especially the young generation, cannot live without it. It has many uses such as social networking, searching for information, entertainment, job searching, and conducting e-commerce. Nowadays, it is rare to find people without cell phones, computers, email, and social networking accounts such as Facebook and Twitter. A survey conducted by the Jed Foundation revealed that approximately 90% of college students utilize technology to keep in touch with their friends and family through social networking (Simpson). Moreover, uses such as conducting research work and entertainment have become popular over time. Nevertheless, it is important to ensure that people do not rely too much on technological devices. Despite its significant integration into people’s lives, the overuse of technology can have some adverse effects on individuals and the societyFirst, overusing technology hinders the development of cognitive processes. According to Hatch (19), it affects development of the brain especially among children and adolescents and can cause CPA (Continuous Partial Attention) condition. Information overload induces this condition in the brain and affects its ability to process ideas and create various meanings. Currently, technology entails constant streaming of information into people’s lives through the use of computers, mobile phones, and millions of functional digital applications. From a majority perspective, these applications make life easier by reducing the time it takes to conduct business, keep in touch, and perform necessary tasks. However, they are the primary source of distractions from essential tasks. Studies show that social media and entertainment are the main sources of work disruptions thanks to people always checking their online updates. As a result, they cannot focus or conduct their job efficiently due to paying only partial attention.
Similarly, constant use of technology affects the way the brain absorbs new information and can lead to divided attention when performing different tasks. Studies indicate that distractions caused by social media and entertainment cause people to shift their attention to several different things, never at any one time focusing on completion of a single task (Hatch 20). Many technology users believe that they are capable of skills such as multitasking because they own a variety of tech devices that help them to accomplish different tasks. Nevertheless, studies show that whereas such people can split their priorities among many tasks, they eventually become unable to focus due to continuous bursts of new information. The result is that multitaskers develop problems in shutting out irrelevant information and experience higher stress levels in their brains. Likewise, people who heavily rely on technology become accustomed ...
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Does social media create a schism between parents and their adolescent children
1. Does Social Media Create a Schism between Parents and their Adolescent Children.
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2. Does Social Media Create a Schism between parents and their adolescents children?
3. The objective of this research essay is to investigate if social media creates a schism
between parents and their adolescent children. New media technologies are having a
major impact on society as a whole. ‘The rapid expansion of computer use and
Internet connection has the potential to change patterns of family interaction, with
conflicts arising over adolescents’ autonomy, parental authority and control of the
computer’ (Mesch, 2006). The creation of the Internet has changed the way people
receive information. The integration of such technologies into social settings within
society, such as the household, is having a major influence on social interaction
between individuals. I will be drawing on insights from sociology of the media with
touches on sociology of the family. From conducting my literature review it is evident
from existing literature that new media technologies impact on the social interaction
within households in many different ways. New media technologies can assist in
increasing interaction amongst families by bringing generations and family members
together. As a result, it can help bridge generational and digital divides. On the other
hand however, new media technologies within a household can lead to a growing
privatisation within family life, with individuals increasingly using technology
independently rather than collectively. In many ways, digital devices have made
family life more complicated and subject to distraction. But they’re also led to some
interesting changes in how the generations communicate. Excessive use of social
media has become a problem in recent years, based on its ability to take away typical
human interactions and replace them with conversations through the use of
technology. In a study shown from 2012 it stated that ‘94 percent of adolescents who
use social networks have a Facebook profile and their average number of Facebook
friends is around 425’ (Kaiser,2013).The usage of online forms of media has many
benefits for socialization and support.
Social media usage for parents has become ever-present, as either a form of
entertainment or communication with other individuals. However, excessive use of
social media has also shown to have effects on parenting; causing ‘parental
distraction, decreasing the level of everyday parental engagement, and making a child
more likely to be at risk for injury’ (Ante-Contreras, 2016). This is a statistically
significant difference when compared with non-parents, of whom 67 per cent log on
4. to Facebook daily, including 42 per cent who do so several times a day’(Duggan et al,
2015).
Studies have shown that frequent eye contact, one on one time, and undivided
attention are necessary in building a secure attachment between a parent and child.
Social media usage has increased exponentially in the last twelve years.
Communication which once was in person or by telephone now can be done online
without physical contact or connection. Individuals spend countless hours of their
lives attached to devices with the intent of communicating with others, sharing their
daily lives, and acquiring new information. Many of these individuals therefore can
neglect other aspects of their lives by spending more time on social media and social
networking sites then they do with family members or their peers. Parents and their
children instead of having conversations face to face they will text one another instead
sometimes, when they are in the same house. Individuals are now using social media
as channel to vent out their frustrations and to connect with others in similar situations
throughout the world. For these reasons, mobile devices such as cell phones and
tablets have become ubiquitous and are an ever-expanding aspect of socialization for
children (Blake and Wrothen, 2012). This ties in with the mediated interaction theory
by sociologist John Thompson. The theory explains that ‘the use of media
technology- paper, electrical connections, electronic impulses so on. That it is
stretched out in time and space and goes beyond the context of face to face
interaction. Mediated interaction takes place between individuals in a direct way – say
two people on the phone but there is no opportunity for the same variety of non-verbal
clues.” (Thompson, 1995).
Excessive use of social media may lead to a decrease in the many communication
processes necessary to create strong bonds between a parent and a child (Ante-
Contreras, 2016). The amount of time spent on the smartphones and tablets, the
parents may be there physically but may emotionally distant, “ignoring all but the
more important needs of their children (Ante-Contreras, 2016). Timothy Golden
states that “while parents generally report that they are only on their mobile devices
for a few seconds at a time, video evidence shows that they can be absorbed for
upwards of three minutes at a stretch” (Golden, 2015:102). This is not to say that
parents are neglectful for using social media necessarily, but specifically parents are
more distracted and less in tune to what is happening with their children if they are
5. constantly focusing attention on their devices. When parents begin to spend more
hours on social media during the time they are caring for their child, they may start to
lose some of the important interactions necessary for a healthy attachment. At the
same time, an increased use of social media can lead a parent to have a different
parenting style, one that may be permissive or authoritarian versus a responsive and
respectful parenting style more in tune with an authoritative/balanced style. A report
from Common Sense Media states that parents of ‘tweens” (children 8-12 years) and
teenagers are spending approximately nine hours per day using technology. These
parents express concerns about the amount of screen time their children log each day,
and believe they’re modelling healthy tech habits for their kids.
We can see young children interacting with technology everywhere. Go to a
restaurant and you can see young children playing on their tablets. On the road, you
can see young children watching television in the car, either on hand-held devices or a
built-in system that came with the car. Several organizations have expressed concern
that young children are having too much exposure to screen time and recommend
guidelines for limiting screen time. The American Association of Paediatrics
recommends no screen time for children under 2 years of age. In 2013, Common
Sense Media conducted a research study to explore the changes in media use by
children ages 0-8 since 2011. In the 2013 body of research, they surveyed 1,463
parents and found that the usage of mobile devices with children under the age of 8
has almost doubled since 2011, to 72 per cent in 2013 as compared to 38 per cent in
2011 (Common Sense Media, 2013). Accessibility is making mobile devices more
popular with young children and families. Despite the recommendations that children
younger than 2 have no screen time, we have seen an increase from 10 per cent (2011
study) to 38 per cent (2013 study) with this group (Common Sense Media, 2013).
Not all technology and screen media is created equally and many forms and uses of
technology can be positive. Through various forms of video conferencing (Skype,
Face time, Whatsapp and Viber for example, we can now connect with people who
live far away. As a result, children can stay in contact with family and friends. Also,
the Internet can take us places we cannot visit in person. Young children are learning
about other cultures through various screen media technologies. You can take a
virtual trip to China, for example, from the comfort of your own home, or learn about
6. pandas by watching a live feed of a panda in a zoo. The opportunities are endless.
Digital photography also can be an empowering tool for young children, allowing
them to capture special moments to remember and share with others.
Developing healthy attachments with their families is critical for young children.
“Attachment is easily formed through eye contact, talking to each other, and skin-to-
skin contact. Children with healthy attachments are more likely to build healthy
relationships with others” (Huisman, 2014:160). One of the concerns about young
children spending extreme amounts of time in front of a screen is the impact on
interactions with family members and others necessary for building healthy and
lasting attachments. The family is a social system that has “a collective identity”,
which is the “result of shared recollections of togetherness that are created as family
members spend time together in shared meals, games, and chatting” (Mesch
2006:123). Communication is “a symbolic, transactional process or the process of
creating and sharing meanings” (Smith et al. 2009:79) and it plays a significant role in
the relationship between individuals for the functioning of a family or a household.
Families that spend time together “in common activities enjoy a higher quality of
communication” (Mesch 2006:124). A lack of communication within a household can
have a detrimental impact on family interaction, family cohesion and thus on the
relationships between individuals within a household. The change of new media
technologies has impacted on contemporary society in various ways. One of the main
adjustments is the impact it has had on personal relationships between parents and
their children. Technology has affected the life of a household in a number of
different ways and has become “a basis for future social behaviour” for example
research carried out by Boundless shows a third of families spend less time together
than they did five years ago despite many having more free time. One in six families
never go to the park, one in ten never elk together and just nine per cent get round a
table once a year. Digital devices and Television are the main reasons for the lack of
quality time.
A digital divide has arguably grown up around parents and their adolescent children.
A digital divide is “a generation gap between those who master and do not master
digital technology” (Aarsand 2007:235). Essentially, a digital divide is “the difference
between those who know and those who do not know how to act in a digital
7. environment” (Aarsand, 2007:236). It is the assumption that children as regular users
of new media technologies develop a wider and more substantial knowledge base in
how to use them from their parents and grandparents (Aarsand 2007). Children may
use this digital and generational divide as a way to separate activities as “non-adult
spaces” where adults don’t have access (Aasand, 2007). On the other hand however,
adults may use this divide to their advantage as a way to interact with their children
and in order “to enter into social intercourse with children” (Aarsand, 2007:252).
Thus, a divide of this nature is created and sustained through social interaction and
can help communication social relations within a household, or it can interfere in
communication and lead to individualisation further. The digital divide has become a
place “where generations meet and do something together” (Aaarsand 2007:251). It is
a space where parents can display a lack of knowledge surrounding new media
technologies in order to enter into social interaction with children. Children are
positioned ‘as someone in the know while the adult is placed and ratifies as the less
knowledgeable” individual (Aarsand 2007:251). Social media has become a place that
allows adolescents to “spend sizeable proportions of leisure time at home in their
room” (Bovill and Livingstone 2001:4)
For instance, Fromme (2003) argues that “electronic gaming” does not lead to social
isolation; instead it enhances and is “fully integrated into existing peer relationships”
One way that new media technologies positively influences social interaction is due to
the fact that they reduce “the effort required to perform task- and work-related
activities and thus allows households to engage in many non-task activities”
(Venkatesh and Vitalari 1985:9). In doing so, leisure time is increased which allows
individuals more flexibility on how their free time is spent. In turn this permits
“additional control over one’s life” and thus can increase social interaction
(Venkatesh and Vitalari 1985:9).
Bovill and Livingstone (2001) develop this argument further and argue that in the
second half of the twentieth century children are spending more and more time in
their bedrooms. In recent years a “bedroom culture” has emerged which implies that
children and young people are spending “significant proportions of their leisure time
at home with the mess media” (Bovill and Livingstone, 2001:3), rather than spending
their time in “communal or family space” (Bovill and Livingstone, 2001:3).
Bedrooms are now media rich and young people are spending more and more time in
8. their bedrooms for “consumerism and individualisation” (Bovill and Livingstone
2001:12) which is resulting in the “privatisation of children’s lives” (Bovill and
Livingstone 2001:3). Children and young people are becoming more individualised
and socially excluded and as a result, they are spending less time with their family
members. This is having a major impact on family communication and social
interaction. There is a negative association “between spending time in the bedroom
and spending free time with the family” (Bovill and Livingstone 2001:9). On the
other hand however, it can also be argued that this bedroom culture is in fact
encouraging social interaction with friends as oppose to family members. Bovill and
Livingstone summarize that having a “media rich bedroom opens up a new space in
which to share media not with family but with friends” (Bovill and Livingstone,
2001:10). It emerged that having media in the bedroom encourages “social contacts
outside the family circle, rather than encouraging them to spend time alone” (Bovill
and Livingstone 2001:11). The media-rich bedroom has become a focus of “peer
activity” by bringing “the outside world indoors” (Bovill and Livingstone 2001:17). A
recent survey by Onside Youth Zones showed that two thirds of teenagers spend most
of their free time in their bedrooms glued to their screens. Boys are most likely to be
gaming online whereas girls will be posting to pals on Messenger, Snapchat and
Instagram. Online socialising and gaming were most popular receiving (44 per cent),
followed by socialising with friends (33 per cent) As Mesch argues the internet is “an
activity that reduces the time parents and children spend together in common
activities” (Mesch 2006:120). Thus, it can be argued that internet use is impeding
social isolation by means of eroding social capital which enables “users to retreat into
an artificial world” (DiMaggio et al. 2001:315). Individuals are also substituting
“interactions with weak ties on the internet for time spent with close friends and
relatives” (DiMaggio et al. 2001:316). The internet within the home is therefore
“negatively related to time spent with family” and it is thought to have a “negative
effect on family communication and closeness” (Mesch 2006:122). The internet is
perceived as an activity that consumes time that adolescences could be spending with
their families and “alienates people from interaction” (Wellman et al. 2001:439). In
addition, Mesch (2003) argued that internet use at home is “positively associated with
family conflicts” (p. 122) thus affecting communication and social interaction
between family members. As Wellman et al. argues, when “internet use increases,
social contact offline decreases and depression and loneliness increase”
9. There has been a virtual explosion of the use of technology in making interpersonal
connections. This is particularly the case for young people. As early as primary
school, many students are carrying smart phones. With access to the internet and
mobile phone technology, social networking has become a phenomenon of
unprecedented proportions and is expanding the concept of a social network. As
Bryant, Sanders-Jackson, and Smallwood (2006) stress: Socially interactive
technologies (SITs), such as instant messaging and text messaging, are beginning to
redefine the social networks of today‘s youth. By offering fast-paced, inexpensive,
online communication, SITs allow for new online youth social networks to form and
evolve. New text-based technologies are picking up where phones left off. Email and
text messaging allow for rapid, asynchronous communication within one‘s peer
network.
One of the many reasons why there is a divide between parents and their teens is
because most adolescents have grown up using technology and are accustomed to the
place it holds in almost every aspect of their daily lives, while many adults are
not. Parents have been on the Internet much longer then their children. They were the
ones who taught them what an email is and how to use a mouse. But now the tables
have turned. Adolescents are now the ones who teach their parents about a great deal
of things regarding the Internet and social media. Adolescents are so accustomed to
using the Internet that it seems likes its second nature to them. A lot of the websites
and apps that adolescents use are geared towards them as they are marketed towards
them. Simply, because some parents simply don’t have the time or the desire to learn
about these things. Technology, today, has had an adverse effect on people. We have
become so dependent on technology that it is becomes a phenomenal task to function
without it. Children and often adults are glued to their smart phones. The family does
not talk to each other, but to other people not present there. Communication between
family members forms the base of a healthy family. When this base is not strong, the
relationship built on it is very unstable.
Children, adolescents and even adults have become addicted to social networking
sites. Adolescents would often complain that their parents don’t give them their
10. ‘space’. Yet they will update his Facebook status where they are going, what they are
doing and who he is with even though a few minutes ago they needed their space.
Generation of young people are now ‘growing up unable to communicate with their
parents, while inhabiting a materialistic online world full of half-truths and body
image paranoia’ (Frost, 2014). Deloitte released their latest Mobile Consumer Survey
in 2016 which analyses the mobile usage habits of Irish consumers aged 18-75. The
research reveals that the smartphone is the primary device for Irish consumers – 86
per cent own or have access to a smartphone, compared with laptops (80 per cent) and
tablets (60 per cent). The top three nocturnal smartphone activities include checking
the time (34 per cent), text messages (19 per cent) and social networks (6 per cent). In
addition to their nocturnal habits, 13 per cent of smartphone owners instinctively
reach for their phone as soon as they wake up – and not just to turn off their alarm.
Just over a third (35 per cent) reach for their phones within five minutes of waking
and a half within a quarter of an hour. Messages (28 per cent) are the first thing
respondents’ check on their smartphones in the morning, followed by social networks
(18 per cent) and personal emails (16 per cent). Almost 9 in 10 (8 per cent 7) of 18-
24 year-olds use their devices ‘always’ or ‘very often’ when using public transport,
meeting friends, shopping or watching television. A quarter use their phones when
eating at home or out at a restaurant.
McAfee, the world’s largest dedicated security technology company released findings
from the company’s 2012 Teen Internet Behaviour study. The study shows how teens
are not only engaging in risky behaviours, but they are hiding it from their parents,
many of whom don’t realize that they are being fooled. Nearly half of parents believe
their teens tell them everything they do online and insist they are in control when it
comes to monitoring their teen’s online behaviours. However, the study reveals that
teens deceiving their parents are on the rise, as over 70 per cent of teens have found
ways to avoid parental monitoring, compared to 2010, where 45 per cent of teens
have hidden their online behaviour from a parent. One in three parents believes their
teen to be much more tech-savvy then they are, leaving them feeling helpless to keep
up with their teen’s online behaviours. 23 per cent admitting that they were
overwhelmed by modern technologies and just hope for the best. With just as many
11. claiming they don’t have the time or energy to keep up with everything these teens do
online.
Eight to eighteen year-olds spend an average of seven and a half hours a day, seven
days a week with media (Rideout, Foehr, & Roberts, 2010, p. 1). This is not
surprising since almost all of our day-to-day activities involve using some form of
media. Whether we are texting on our cell phones, chatting over Facebook, or
watching our favourite TV shows, we are continuously interacting with media. This
goes for children as well, if not more so. As the authors of the Generation M² study
point out, “a key reason young people spend more time consuming media these days
is that there are ever expanding opportunities for them to do so – more TVs and
computers in their homes, bedrooms and cars, and more media-ready cell phones and
iPods in their pockets” (Rideout, Foehr, & Roberts, 2010, p. 9). Media plays an
integral role in the lives of children and, consequently, in family life; one might even
say that media is a necessity in the culture we live in. The amount of time that both
children and adults spend using media devices is an indicator of the role that media
plays in family life. Parents make numerous decisions about their children’s media
environment: how many TVs, computers and video games they buy for the home;
whether their kids have cell phones and iPods; whether there are TVs and video game
players in their children’s bedrooms; whether the TV is usually on during meals or as
daily background; and whether they establish any rules about their children’s media
use. All of these decisions, put together, create a media environment for young
people. (Rideout, Foehr, & Roberts, 2010, p. 35)
Some parents view media as a babysitter as it helps to aid them when they are out in
public with friends having drinks or just out for the meal instead of their young
children asking when they are going home they are occupied by the smartphones.
Thus which is provided a divide between them and their children. ‘If you have gone
out to eat at a restaurant in the past couple of years, the chances are pretty high that
you have witnessed a parent handing over an iPhone to the toddler having a tantrum
in the middle of dinner. As the example above demonstrates, it is becoming an
increasingly common practice for parents to use media to babysit their children’
(Villegas, 2013:7). There have been countless reports and articles in the mainstream
12. media disputing the belief of parents using media devices such as, televisions,
iPhones and iPads, as their babysitters.
New technology offers children independence from their parents’ involvement in their
social lives, with the use of mobile phones, instant messaging, and social networking
sites. Many children see this technological divide between themselves and their
parents as freedom from over-involvement and interference on the part of their
parents in their lives. Parents, in turn, ‘see it as a loss of connection to their children
and an inability to maintain reasonable oversight, for the sake of safety and over-all
health, of their children’s lives’ (Taylor, 2013). At the same time, perhaps a bit
cynically, children’s time-consuming immersion in technology may also mean that
some parents don’t have to bother with entertaining their children, leaving them more
time to themselves. There is little doubt that technology is affecting family
relationships on a day-to-day level. Children are instant messaging constantly,
checking their social media, listening to music, surfing their favourite web sites, and
watching television or movies. Because of the emergence of mobile technology, these
practices are no longer limited to the home, but rather can occur in cars, at restaurants,
in fact, anywhere there’s a mobile phone signal.
Less and less families are eating meals together, if they do eat together in many cases
they are watching television which should be discouraged because it may lead to less
meaningful communication and arguably, poorer eating habits. Dinner in many family
homes represents the only time where the whole family are together (Paediatrics &
Child, 2003). Rideout, Foehr and Roberts found that many young people, 64% of all 8
to 18 year-olds, live in homes where the TV is usually on during meals (Rideout et al
2010:17). In Britain more than 20 per cent of British families sits down for a family
meal only once or twice a week and one in five families takes ‘family meals’ in front
of the television according to a survey conducted by Organix. Revealed that 10 per
cent of families never have a family meal together in the week. There is no doubt that
family dinners is essential for forming strong family connections, bonds and
relationships, crucially creating a healthy family unit. It is a time for both parents and
children to share with one another and impacts important aspects of child
development. Having the TV on during the meal or the presence of any other media
devices at the table is a distraction for everyone and hinders effective communication
13. between family members. With all of the vital benefits that result from families
sharing a meal together, having media present during this ritual could be a detrimental
effect on the development of a family system.
Adolescence is a period in which families need to adjust and adapt their relationships
to accommodate the increasingly maturing adolescent (Mesch, 2006). Many of their
exchanges concern parents’ regulation of adolescents’ everyday lives, such as how
late they can stay out, friendship relations, and personal activities such as phone and
TV use (Collins & Russel 1991). Studies on adolescents show that as they become
older they tolerate parental authority increasingly less over aspects of their personal
lives. They demand more and more autonomy and show greater readiness to disagree
openly with their parents (Fuligni 1998). Adolescents and parents agreed that parents
had legitimate authority over moral issues (behaviour that could be harmful to others
or violate mutual trust), prudential issues (smoking and drinking behaviour), and
friendship issues (seeing friends that parents did not like). As for personal issues such
as regulation of TV time and phone calls, and choosing clothes, adolescents regarded
them as less legitimately subject to parental jurisdiction, and obedience less
obligatory, than other issues (Smetana Asquith 1994). Furthermore, the frequency and
intensity of parents’ and adolescents’ conflicts over personal issues proved relatively
high (Smetana & Asquith 1994).
I set out my research essay to see has social media created a schism between parents
and their adolescent children. I wanted to examine was new technologies and social
media sites leading factors and it is in fact. I have established that with the increase
use of social media amongst parents and their children they do spend less time
together and interacting with one another. Even though in certain circumstances it
also brings them together. The technological revolution that has occurred in recent
years has impacted on daily life within a household in a variety of different ways.
New media technologies have become rooted in today’s society and have resulted in
major societal changes. One of the main social settings that have been affected is that
of the household. If parents are going to use media devices to “babysit” or distract
their children, it is important for them to follow up this media interaction by engaging
in conversation with their kids. The unintended effects could be damaging to the
manner in which they communicate with their children and hinder the development of
14. their family relationships. With the development of new technologies things will
always be lost while simultaneously new things are gained. “Our media-saturated
social worlds influence family relationships and dynamics. Traditional evenings spent
together eating around the family table and telling stories are now long gone,”
(Pigeron, 2009:56). It was apparent that media does affect the way a family unit
socializes and, as a result, their relationships. Without boundaries of time and place,
features of technological devices allow individuals to foster family bonds and
relationships by creating the continuous ability to connect with others. Even though
this is one of the best aspects of media, it also has potential for negatively impacting
in person family contact, hindering face-to-face interactions and social involvement.
Overall, the results demonstrated that media, without a doubt, cannot be tucked into a
precise group of positive or negative since different media devices serve diverse
purposes within family life as well as within individual families. Social media does
not replace face to face interaction. The fact is that family life has changed in the last
generation quite apart from the rise of technology. The size of homes has grown by 50
percent, meaning family members can retreat to their own corners of the house, so
there’s less chance that parents and children will see each other. Because everyone is
so busy with work, school, and extracurricular activities, there’s less time for families
to spend together.
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