One of my sources is an article called: Mental Health of Children and Young People at Risk in Digital Age. The paper doesn’t as such give you a final answer, but sets out the facts about social media’s effects on young adults. It is an article I found in The Guardian and was published on Wednesday 5th November 2014. The fact that it is only a year old is a benefit, as it is recent and talks of the problems of the world today with recent figures and facts. The text itself includes its own sources; although The Guardian’s own sources should be reliable due to its high reputation; it could be argued as biased, purely because the MP’s (one of their sources) are human and have their own views and thoughts that dictate their opinions. The Guardian
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The website is called: Reach Out, it’s a professional website about young people, this is good for my question as I am looking at young adults and the effects of social media on them. Although many points made are fair and in some ways correct, other sources have shown stronger arguments against these ideas. This source is very bias towards the deliberation; it claims that social media "empowers" young people and connects them to eachother. It also says that it gives young adults a voice; aswell as this, it gives them a chance to develop into "social participants" and "active citizens". I believe that although many can agree this is true it doesn’t help children to become social as technology is a wall in the garden of communication.
My third source was: Social Media's Potential Influence on Eating Disorders. It contains statistics and talks a lot about body image and social trends. This very useful as it covers many aspects that I need for an over view of social media and eating disorders. I feel that this is very bias to the debate and the writer definetly believes that social media has a bad influence on teenagers mental health and well being. This was chosen because it contains a lot of infrmation about the variety of influences social media pressures onto
The website is called: Reach Out, it’s a professional website about young people, this is good for my question as I am looking at young adults and the effects of social media on them. Although many points made are fair and in some ways correct, other sources have shown stronger arguments against these ideas. This source is very bias towards the deliberation; it claims that social media "empowers" young people and connects them to eachother. It also says that it gives young adults a voice; aswell as this, it gives them a chance to develop into "social participants" and "active citizens". I believe that although many can agree this is true it doesn’t help children to become social as technology is a wall in the garden of communication.
My third source was: Social Media's Potential Influence on Eating Disorders. It contains statistics and talks a lot about body image and social trends. This very useful as it covers many aspects that I need for an over view of social media and eating disorders. I feel that this is very bias to the debate and the writer definetly believes that social media has a bad influence on teenagers mental health and well being. This was chosen because it contains a lot of infrmation about the variety of influences social media pressures onto