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 Rory Day

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A pencil shop, for texting the old-fashioned way

By, molly young

Young, Molly. “A Pencil Shop, for Texting the Old-Fashioned Way.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 19 May 2015, www.nytimes.com/2015/05/21/fashion/a-pencil-shop-for-texting-the-old-fashioned-way.html. 

• It is an article written in the New York times website

• Starts by giving examples of items that are being seen as less and less useful in everyday life because of newer inventions.

• Paints pencils in a light to be see as almost obsolete in the technologically advanced society we live in today

• Then begins talking about Caroline Weaver's vast amounts of knowledge about pencils that many people would not even notice.

• She even has a pencil tattooed on her are showing her passion for the topic

• Uses photos throughout the article of the parts of the store she talks about.

• Helps us visualize and see the space being described

• Shows the vast amount of different reasons to buy her pencils\

• Cheap prices

• Great smells

• Different shapes, colors, sizes

• With or without erasers

• Molly Young’s goal was to give an example of someone turning something becoming obsolete into a new and thriving business

• She achieved this goal and brought positive publicity to a small business and passion project

• My topic is is the effect of social media on a person mentally and discussing the positives and negative impacts on a person's life that it causes 

• This article would be used as an example for the positive that social media allows for.  

• Social media can have many negative benefits but this article is the prime example of positivity and sharing something awesome that many people would never know about in their life without social media.

Knowledgeable vs.Knowledge able Ted Talk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LeaAHv4UTI8

• A Ted Talk by Michael Wesch

• Aims to educate and explain the shortcomings of social media and the emerging opportunity to do good in the world

• Talks about how social media and technology in the classroom can be extremely distracting, and wastes everyone's time

• Advocating for people to change from taking in loads of knowledge in the classroom and testing based off of memorization,  to preparing critical thinkers and using that knowledge to make decisions

• The overload of information and technology has lessened many people's ability to connect and collaborate

• Claims that social media is a place filled with hate and negativity, and  Wesch pushes for a cultural change online

• Talks about how the internet is all around us and connected to us at all times and the negative impacts that has on people

• One quote that stood out to me that does not directly tye into my topic but i found powerful was “You do not find yourself instead you create yourself”

• College students and young people are hearing so many ways that they should live their lives that many of them feel lost or overwhelmed

• The goal was to insight change in education and the way that people interact with social media and the internet

• Which he paints perfect example of how we could be better through social media movements 

• A group of people coming together and creating a positive change through using their own individual voices and platforms at once.

• Movements that can reach and help millions of people isn't possible without many people joining in

• It starts with one person and describes the power that one person and other joining them can have

• Perfect for my topic to show how social media and technology has had a negative impact on our generation and how we don't connect with people as much on a one on one basis

• As well as the possibilities for social media to be changed by society to create positive interactions within the world

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Attention spans dwindle due to social media use, by Sophia Hsu

Hsu, Sophia. “Attention Spans Dwindle Due to Social Media Use.” The Standard, standard.asl.org/22338/opinions/attention-spans-dwindle-due-to-social-media-use. Accessed 15 Feb. 2024. 

https://standard.asl.org/22338/opinions/attention-spans-dwindle-due-to-social-media-use/

• An opinion article from The Standard

• Content addiction and the negative effects it has on a person's daily life is something that has happened to this author in the past so she's using her own experience and combining it with data to portray the massive problem that many youths are having revolving around social media

• Uses multiple sources on its own 

• Somewhat are reputable and

• fact checks the data that many people use when arguing this topic and concludes that the data is false or not reputable 

• Focused on how the use of social media and constant bombardment of information students are receiving are lessening their attention spans over time

• Not to 8 seconds like some people would believe but still lowering from year to year

• Hsu uses this piece to call attention to the slow descent into content addiction and how people cannot live without it

• The tricks that social media companies play on the human mind and how they take advantage of people without them even noticing  

• From tv being riveting must see content to short form 60 second tik toks is a drastic change in how we as a society intake content and information

• It's never enough time to formulate a true opinion before it's on to the next video as the cycle repeats over and over.

• Social media sites are designed for a person to scroll endlessly

• “These apps all prevent consumers from really absorbing information and comprehending it deeply. Therefore, social media platforms invite the brain to practice mindless and quick consumption”.

• This mindless and quick consumption leaves people knowledgeable in many different areas but not enough to have a fly backed up and supported understanding.

• She uses her own personal life to show how it can affect a student and how she personally has had trouble retaining focus

• People are more forgetful than ever as well

• The goal was to give attention to the ongoing problem and call for change

“Dr. Gloria Mark, a professor of informatics who studies attention spans due to social media, said the average attention span on a screen has decreased by 103 seconds between 2004 and 2023”

Pros & cons: impacts of social media on mental health by Ágnes Zsila  and Marc Eric S. Reyes 

Zsila Agnes, and Marc Eric S. Reyes. “Pros & Cons: Impacts of Social Media on Mental Health - BMC Psychology.” BioMed Central, BioMed Central, 6 July 2023, bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-023-01243-x. 

https://bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40359-023-01243-x#:~:text=The%20use%20of%20social%20media,essential%20to%20social%20media%20consumption

• an editorial piece of writing published on the BMC psychology website

• Uses 10 different studies and research references from where it draws its conclusions

• It was an editorial published on a physiology website with many sources so i believe that it was a well thought out and researched article

• Main theme is to educate the reader of the negative effects that social media and the overuse has on a person mentally.

• Stresses the negatives it can have on someone for overuse of social media

• As well as the positive impacts that social media can have on a person

• The Ted talk by Michael Wesch and the author seem to have drawn similar but slightly conclusions on how social media affects people

• The author has taken in research and opinions that say social media can be positive and negative and does not take a firm side on the topic

• Has clear message and promotes media literacy to mitigate the negative mental impacts that social media may cause 

• There are links spread throughout the piece and if the article was in any other media an image of the data could have appeared next to the speaker or been its own section of the video.

• Because it's in a written format you have to open multiple like and lose sight of the picture that the author is try to support with this piece of information

• I really wish that the author would have come to a more solid conclusion other than deciding to stay in the middle of the argument

• Instead the author leaves the decision up to the reader whether social media has a positive or negative impact on their mental health

• Data supporting both sides are presented in front of you and I was hoping for  a more concrete opinion and their own reasoning for that,

• This article fits perfect into my topic that i wanted research into more

• From personal experience growing up with social media and seeing the impacts it had on the way that people lived their lives, because of this I always wondered why.

• This article and the other sources I collected I attempted to take in other people's opinions and scientific facts to come to my own conclusion

• Whether that's from a Ted Talk debating the negative impacts and how we can turn them into positives, or research about social media's impact on attention spans