Annotated Bibliography – Formal Essay #2

Bauerlein, Mark. The Digital Divide: Arguments for and against Facebook, Google, Texting, and the Age of Social Networking. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2011. Print.

Bauerlein’s collection of different works brings an idea to how quick internet and social media usage has affected our lifestyles. The book provides some history to our internet patterns and technology intertwined with our lives.

Cabral, Jaclyn. Is Generation Y Addicted to Social Media? The Elon Journal of Undergraduate Research in Communications 2.1 (2011): 1-14. Web.

The strategic communications department at Elon University held a study on addiction to social media, including Facebook, Myspace, and others.

Caruso, Georgiann. Kids and Social Networking: Pros and Cons. The Chart RSS. Cnn.com, 6 Aug. 2011. Web. 29 June 2014.  

Caruso asks for everyone’s thoughts after weighing the pros and cons of social media and the affects it has on our youth. The pros and cons go from the disadvantages it weighs in on health and bad grades, to the positive side of captivating kid’s mind through online interaction.

Livingstone, Sonia M., and Moira Bovill. Children And Their Changing Media Environment : A European Comparative Study. Mahwah, N.J.: L. Erlbaum, 2001. eBook Collection (EBSCOhost). Web. 4 July 2014.

This book includes research done on children and their media-centered lives. The study’s priority is to understand the meanings and impacts television, computers, games, e-mail, and internet have in the lives of the youth. The research is deemed needed to understand the balance between opportunities and dangers of new media. Even though the study and research takes place in Europe, I still found it beneficial to my essay.