Social Media Issues
Interesting trend identified in this graphic - we are moving from active participation as producers of social media to passive consumers of social media! Passive and Active Social Media Use and Depressive Symptoms Among United States Adults make direct links between depression in adults that use social media passively, though it doesn't say whether passive use causes the depression or whether depressed people just don't have the energy to be active users. Passive social network site use and subjective well-being: A moderated mediation model suggest that passive use is the result of decreased self-esteem.
The YouTubers phenomenon: What makes YouTube stars so popular for young people?
The YouTubers phenomenon: What makes YouTube stars so popular for young people?
The Scary stuff (in the media)
Here's a selection of the scare-tactic approach to analysing the effects of social media (don't do just this in you're PIP 'cause it's kind of biased)
Privacy and Identity
Social Media Pseudonymity: Affordances, Practices, Disruptions discusses the implications of different ways of (fake)-naming yourself online and how this creates specific kinds of identities that frame the way people use and interact on social media.
The Impact of Context Collapse and Privacy on Social Network Site Disclosures discuses the way online identities are becoming narrower and more superficial because they are catering to an imagined 'lowest common denominator' audience. Context Collapse and Student Social Media Networks: Where Life and High School Collide explains strategies teen girls use to negotiate these issues.
Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social media.
Really good research
Teenage girls' Online Participation: an Australian study is a a research project based on social media use among 13 year old Australian girls. CAFS students - use this in your literature review - it has great stats. skim through to find the bits you need.
Like, post, share: Young Australians’ experience of social media.
Julia - Here's a map of all the things you were saying this morning. Let me know if I missed anything. I'll put up some links to specific issues over the next couple of days.