Annotated Bibliography
Research Topic: How do Baby Boomers use social media?
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Leung, L. (2013). Generational differences in content generation in social media: The roles of the gratifications sought and of narcissism. Computers in Human Behavior, 29(3), 997-1006. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2012.12.028
The study conducts a telephone survey in order to figure out the differences of social media usage among various generation cohorts. The researchers mainly focus on three kinds of social media, including Facebook, blogs and forums. The results manifest that people use different kinds of social media to meet their different socio-psychological needs. There is no generational difference in using social media to fulfill social and affective demands, …show more content…
The part dealing with baby boomers can be helpful to my research. It can be applied as evidence to illustrate baby boomers’ choice of social media and its motives behind the choice.
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Barker, V. (2012). A Generational Comparison of Social Networking Site Use: The Influence of Age and Social Identity. International Journal of Aging & Human Development, 74(2), 163-187. Retrieved from http://ahd.sagepub.com/ content/74/2/163.abstract
Two generations, millennial and baby boomer, are inquired through an online questionnaire to compare generational difference in motives of using social networking sites. The research especially looks into the impact of collective self-esteem and group identification on the incentives. The results demonstrate that Baby Boomer show lower collective self-pride and SNS use for social compensation than Millennial. And the various aims of people with different levels of collective self-esteem and group identity are also discussed.
This article is published in 2012 and peer reviewed. The samples of the online survey include the generation I will research and it focuses on SNS, which equals to my research topic----social media. The study even employs two measurement model to check the sub-samples and scientific data analyses, thus it is quite …show more content…
Leist, A. K. (2013). Social Media Use of Older Adults: A Mini-Review. Gerontology, 59(4), 378-384. doi:10.1159/000346818
The study points out that social media become a tool for older people to keep social contact with others. And it explains older adults’ attitudes and motives of social networking sites usage. Moreover, it proposes the feasible medical use of social media and some potential negative influences of social media amongst older adults.
The article is peer reviewed and published in 2013. It is a current article for my research. Nevertheless, the article does not define the age range of older adults, so the scope of the article is questionable. But some conclusions are correlated with those articles discussing Baby Boomers.
The article is related to my research topic, but as the scope is vague, it cannot be directly used in my research. However, the article demonstrates the attitudes and motives of social media, which is relevant to the researches done by Leung (2013) and Barker (2012). In addition, the author offers a new perspective of social media use, medical practice, which can be used in the suggestion part of my
Research Topic: How do Baby Boomers use social media?
1.
Leung, L. (2013). Generational differences in content generation in social media: The roles of the gratifications sought and of narcissism. Computers in Human Behavior, 29(3), 997-1006. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2012.12.028
The study conducts a telephone survey in order to figure out the differences of social media usage among various generation cohorts. The researchers mainly focus on three kinds of social media, including Facebook, blogs and forums. The results manifest that people use different kinds of social media to meet their different socio-psychological needs. There is no generational difference in using social media to fulfill social and affective demands, …show more content…
The part dealing with baby boomers can be helpful to my research. It can be applied as evidence to illustrate baby boomers’ choice of social media and its motives behind the choice.
2.
Barker, V. (2012). A Generational Comparison of Social Networking Site Use: The Influence of Age and Social Identity. International Journal of Aging & Human Development, 74(2), 163-187. Retrieved from http://ahd.sagepub.com/ content/74/2/163.abstract
Two generations, millennial and baby boomer, are inquired through an online questionnaire to compare generational difference in motives of using social networking sites. The research especially looks into the impact of collective self-esteem and group identification on the incentives. The results demonstrate that Baby Boomer show lower collective self-pride and SNS use for social compensation than Millennial. And the various aims of people with different levels of collective self-esteem and group identity are also discussed.
This article is published in 2012 and peer reviewed. The samples of the online survey include the generation I will research and it focuses on SNS, which equals to my research topic----social media. The study even employs two measurement model to check the sub-samples and scientific data analyses, thus it is quite …show more content…
Leist, A. K. (2013). Social Media Use of Older Adults: A Mini-Review. Gerontology, 59(4), 378-384. doi:10.1159/000346818
The study points out that social media become a tool for older people to keep social contact with others. And it explains older adults’ attitudes and motives of social networking sites usage. Moreover, it proposes the feasible medical use of social media and some potential negative influences of social media amongst older adults.
The article is peer reviewed and published in 2013. It is a current article for my research. Nevertheless, the article does not define the age range of older adults, so the scope of the article is questionable. But some conclusions are correlated with those articles discussing Baby Boomers.
The article is related to my research topic, but as the scope is vague, it cannot be directly used in my research. However, the article demonstrates the attitudes and motives of social media, which is relevant to the researches done by Leung (2013) and Barker (2012). In addition, the author offers a new perspective of social media use, medical practice, which can be used in the suggestion part of my