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Social Media, Internet Addiction, And Depression

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Why is it important to identify detrimental online and offline behaviors? How do the two intersect?
What psychological theories best explain the rationale behind users’ engagement with social media?
What types of behaviors are commonly exhibited in the social media space? What are some psychological effects on users?
Can social media help enhance self-esteem? Explain.
Can social media lead to feelings of belonging, feelings of isolation, and being an outcast, or both?
What are some signs that a person’s activity in social media is demonstrative of depressive symptoms?
What are some signs that a person’s activity offline is demonstrative of his or her ongoing use of social media?
How might one address the topic when an individual is suspected of showing signs of depression in relation to his or her social media use?
What is Internet addiction? What are the signs of Internet addiction? How can it be addressed?

 

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Narcissism And How We See This On Social Media. Internet Addiction What Are Ways To Identify An Individual Who May Have This?

Narcissism and how we see this on social media Give some examples you have seen.

Internet addiction What are ways to identify an individual who may have this?

Social Media, Internet Addiction, And Depression

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Why is it important to identify detrimental online and offline behaviors? How do the two intersect?
What psychological theories best explain the rationale behind users’ engagement with social media?
What types of behaviors are commonly exhibited in the social media space? What are some psychological effects on users?
Can social media help enhance self-esteem? Explain.
Can social media lead to feelings of belonging, feelings of isolation, and being an outcast, or both?
What are some signs that a person’s activity in social media is demonstrative of depressive symptoms?
What are some signs that a person’s activity offline is demonstrative of his or her ongoing use of social media?
How might one address the topic when an individual is suspected of showing signs of depression in relation to his or her social media use?
What is Internet addiction? What are the signs of Internet addiction? How can it be addressed?

Advertisement in print media, social media

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Let’s have some fun! Locate an advertisement in print media, social media, or the internet that uses statistical data. Carefully read the ad and then respond to the following in a paper.

What is the ad trying to say?
What statistical data are misrepresented or exaggerated?
What are the undesirable consequences to the consumer?
What is an ethical solution that considers the welfare of the stakeholders?

Sociology and the media

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Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism. Critically evaluate this argument and the evidence with reference to media monopolisation, social media, the future of journalism and the public sphere. ( article that question is based on is attached).

Please use the attached references from my subject unit and any extra references are to be Australian ones if possible.

Essay instructions:

Katharine Viner (The Guardian, 12 July 2016) argues that: Social media has swallowed the news – threatening the funding of public-interest reporting and ushering in an era when everyone has their own facts. But the consequences go far beyond journalism
Critically evaluate this argument and the evidence with reference to media monopolisation, social media, the future of journalism and the public sphere.

Please add this question to your paper when you submit it. Also follow the normal parameters applicable to essay writing in the Arts Faculty and in ASC346. Make sure you have 6-8 references from the unit. I have attached the article from Viner to assist your analysis.

-References to use( if relevant ) – please find these online.

-The Eavesdropper: in the field with Sherry Turkle as she fights to save the dying art of conversation by Garber, Megan 2014

-The sociology of habit: The perspective of Pierre Bourdieu – Swartz, David L Winter 2002

-Media/society: industries, images, and audiences – David Croteau, William Hoynes 2014
Book Please read pp 16-26 & 187-222

-Journalism studies beyond media: On ideology and identity – Mark Deuze 2004
Article Read pp. 275-293.

Media/society: industries, images, and audiences – David Croteau, William Hoynes 2014
Book Further Reading Please read pp 123-137 & 226-235.

The media we deserve: underachievement in the fourth estate – David Salter 2007
Book Read pages 17-42

News and the social life of words – Matheson, D. 2005
Chapter Prescribed Read pages 15-34

The framing of the mind – Manuel Castells 2013
Chapter