GNED 221 - Social Media's Transformative Role in Modern Society

This annotated bibliography examines the changes brought by social media in contemporary society, focusing on its impact on learning, children, and organizational reach. The first study highlights social media's positive effects on student engagement, communication skills, and collaborative learning environments. The second study addresses the benefits and harms of social media for children aged 8 to 13, emphasizing the importance of protecting children online and the responsibilities of social media companies. The third study discusses the use of social media data for understanding organizational reach and engagement, highlighting both the potential and limitations of social media data collection and analysis. The bibliography includes citations for each article, providing a comprehensive overview of the key themes and findings related to social media's influence in today's world. Desklib provides access to similar solved assignments and resources.

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Young, L. (2018). Can Social Media Impact Learning?. Retrieved from
https://www.techlearning.com/resources/can-social-media-impact-learning
The research study shows the learning impacts of the social media in the positive way
and this involves the mastering of the digital communications including the texting,
Instagramming and tweeting. Social media plays a great role in strengthening the communication
skills. Social media increases the student engagement by utilizing the technology to research the
information, sharing ideas and producing the final product. This also helps student to share
information, communication ideas and creating videos for extending and enhancing their
learning perspectives for demonstrating the mastery of the content and skills.
This research study mainly provide the assessment of increasing the student engagement
by the learning impacts of the social media, fostering the collaborative community learning
environments. The collaborative community learning scan be introduced by encouraging
students to use Twitter during the class discussions or for any test preparation, through this
students will be encouraged to develop connections with the peers and reinforcing the
collaborative natures of learning. The educators can easily use the social media for developing
the creativity among the students by encouraging them to explore the content material in the
various ways. Thus, the research findings showed the positive effects on the learning outcomes
and found out those students who utilizes the social media alongside the coursework reflects the
improved grades as compared to other social media non-connected classmates.

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This is reflected from this study that the designing of various lessons help students to
utilize the social media as they help to solve problems and competing projects and
communicating ideas building confidences. Human also have strongest desire to connecting with
the other one in the social settings and this platforms creates the learning environments, which
creates the rich learning experiences for the students. Thus the social media can be considered as
the learning ground for the students.
The Lancet (2018). Children and social media.
Social media is one of the integral parts of the people’s lives and the reach of the social
media has out spaced the impact of the social media into the probable benefits and harm for the
young users. This research paper has been conducted for addressing the gap and exploring the
social media experience of the children aged from 8 to 13 years. Children enjoyed using the
social media by the stimulated creativity and this also help them to foster their relationship with
their remote relatives and the friends. Mostly, the children evaluated the social media for playing
games, making friendship and involving themselves in the social affirmation and in the peer
feedback as well as the bittersweet exposure to the unattainable lifestyles. This study also give
recommendations for minimizing the risks, addressing the children needs and the emotional
safety online.
The assessment of this research study includes the importance of protecting the children
on the social media is the sole responsibilities and the better accountability from the private
international companies like operating in the public spaces. The findings of this study imposes
the companies to provide the safe and the nurturing environment for the young users that is to do
the better job of policing compliances with the age restrictions.

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This study suggests that the children should not be allowed to access their parent’s social
media accounts, which may introduce them to their age-inappropriate language and themes. The
parents should not get involved in sharing of the photos of the children; this creates bad impact
on the children.
Mergel, I. (2017). Building holistic evidence for social media impact. Public Administration
Review, 77(4), 489-495.
This study shows the importance of the social media measurement for understanding the
organization’s reach and the engagement of the organization with their audiences. This article
shows how the public administration practitioners and the researchers are using up the social
media data, which can be easily collected from the social media platforms and this also practices
with the data measurement effort, which provides deeper insights regarding the evidence-based
decision making process. This study also shows the limitations that are brought by the
collections of the social media data.
This study found out that the social media communication involves the evidences
including the interactivity and the connectivity among the citizens, the attributes of the network
actors and the network structures for understanding who are the influential actors. The new
findings are relevant for understanding the importance of the social media measurement.
Thus, although the social media data provides the faster and the more inaccurate insights,
this make the policy makers to improve their decision making process, all the disciplines are
currently grappling with the data collection problems, data sets limitation and the implication of
the network algorithms designed mainly for the small data sets. The limitations also include the

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privacy issues by the combination of the social media data sets with the administratively
collected data.

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References
Mergel, I. (2017). Building holistic evidence for social media impact. Public Administration
Review, 77(4), 489-495.
The Lancet (2018). Children and social media.
Young, L. (2018). Can Social Media Impact Learning?. Retrieved from
https://www.techlearning.com/resources/can-social-media-impact-learning