The Shaping of Teenagers: Social Media's Impact (COMM 1100)

This essay examines the significant impact of social media on the lives of contemporary teenagers. The paper begins with a thesis statement asserting the pervasive nature of social media in their daily routines, focusing on how these platforms shape their self-perception and identity. The essay systematically analyzes the effects of various social media tools like YouTube, Instagram, Snapchat, and Facebook, which are dominant among the youth population. It also incorporates Walter Ong's concept of secondary orality to analyze the communication dynamics within these platforms. The paper references several academic sources, including studies on social media usage, teen sexting, and the impact of social networks on adolescents' social and academic development. The essay also explores how teenagers use social media for impression management and how it changes their social interactions, drawing on Erving Goffman's terms like 'impression management' and 'the stage.' The annotated bibliography provides a comprehensive list of sources used to support the arguments presented in the essay, highlighting various aspects of social media's influence on teenagers.

Running head: SOCIOLOGY
Topic : How social media shapes the teenagers of the current generation
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Draft title of the paper
The title of the paper is the effect of the social media towards shaping the teenagers of
the current generation.
Draft thesis statement
The thesis statement of the paper argues with the fact how the social media is
pervasive in the every day of individual. The paper highlights the exemplification of how the
social media shapes the self of the teenagers of the current generation.
Organization of your paper
The paper will be organized systematically with a brief overview of the thesis
statement of the topic followed by focusing on the central idea of the impact of the social
media towards shaping the teenagers. The theory of Walter Ong’s notion of secondary orality
will also be analysed.
Annotate Bibliography
Anderson, M., & Jiang, J. (2018). Teens, social media & technology 2018. Washington,
DC: Pew Internet & American Life Project. Retrieved June, 3, 2018.
The author highlighted the use of YouTube, Instagram, snap chat, twitter, Facebook
and some of the other social media tools that has been dominating among the youth
population of America.
Wang, Q., Chen, W., & Liang, Y. (2011). The effects of social media on college students.

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The author in his research paper highlighted the social mdi as one of the growing tool
and one of the essential and vital part of the technology towards the success equation of the
students in the current generation.
Hasinoff, A. A. (2013). Sexting as media production: Rethinking social media and
sexuality. New Media & Society, 15(4), 449-465.
The author highlights some of the negative effects like teen sexting habits and
ineffective and use of hard child pornography in the current generation that needs more
attention in the negative effects of social media.
Ahn, J. (2011). The effect of social network sites on adolescents' social and academic
development: Current theories and controversies. Journal of the American Society for
information Science and Technology, 62(8), 1435-1445.
The author of this article highlighted the examination of the connection and the
relation among the social media usage and the privacy, safety, youth, well being and
achievement of education of the teenagers.
Dunbar, R.I., 2016. Do online social media cut through the constraints that limit the size
of offline social networks?. Royal Society Open Science, 3(1), p.150292.
The author of this article highlighted on the characteristics of the human brain that has
enabled in maintaining the long relationship and connection through out the world via the
social media.
Ess, C. (2011). Self, community, and ethics in digital mediatized worlds. Trust and
virtual worlds: Contemporary perspectives, 3-30.

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In the book, the author examined how the virtual and the real world are conceived and
understood in the early instantiations of the virtual worlds and some of the correlative
research in the communication related to the computer mediation. With the notion of the
Walter Ong’s notion of secondary orality, the book highlights the factors of communication
as an essential factor for the use of social media.

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Reference
Ahn, J. (2011). The effect of social network sites on adolescents' social and academic
development: Current theories and controversies. Journal of the American Society for
information Science and Technology, 62(8), 1435-1445.
Anderson, M., & Jiang, J. (2018). Teens, social media & technology 2018. Washington, DC:
Pew Internet & American Life Project. Retrieved June, 3, 2018.
Dunbar, R.I., 2016. Do online social media cut through the constraints that limit the size of
offline social networks?. Royal Society Open Science, 3(1), p.150292.
Ess, C. (2011). Self, community, and ethics in digital mediatized worlds. Trust and virtual
worlds: Contemporary perspectives, 3-30.
Hasinoff, A. A. (2013). Sexting as media production: Rethinking social media and
sexuality. New Media & Society, 15(4), 449-465.
Wang, Q., Chen, W., & Liang, Y. (2011). The effects of social media on college students.