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Argosy University

September 20, 2018

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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.

In this article, the author seeks to explain through a study, the relationship that exists between social media and the physiological well-being of the users, educational development, social capital, and youth safety. The study establishes that indeed social media has a positive and negative influence on these factors. For example, social media contributes positively to physiological well-being and educational development of youths while it can negatively impact the social capital and youth privacy. This article is useful in the research paper given that it will help to address the critic side that is supporters of the view that social media is perfectly good and the paper's main argument.

Valenzuela, S. (2014). Facebook, Twitter, and youth engagement: A quasi-experimental study of social media use and protest behavior using propensity score matching.

The study assesses the relationship between protest behavior among the youths and the use of social media. The authors established that there is a high correlation between social media use and protest behavior. Social media can increase rebellion and political awareness. This study is important given that it has conducted research in the two most popular social media platforms that is Facebook and Twitter to establish the behavioral change in youths as results of using the platforms. The work is also significant since it shows how social media can influence the change of behavior in a society.

Young, S. D., & Jordan, A. H. (2013). The influence of social networking photos on social norms and sexual health behaviors. Cyberpsychology, behavior, and social networking, 16(4), 243-247

In this article, the authors that is Young and Jordan did conduct a study to establish whether social media has any effect on the sexual health behavior of its users as well as social norms. The article begins by acknowledging that teenagers and children form a significant part of social media users and a big percentage of their free time is consumed or used in different social media platforms. The study did clearly show that pornographic images, and photos, as well as other sexually explicit material, did significantly influence the probability of the social media users to have unprotected sex as well as engage in premarital sex. The study also did establish that content available on social media did affect the social norms of the youths and other users. This article is relevant to this topic in the sense that it entails a study on behavioral change as a result of social media content a point that forms the gist of the research paper. Secondly, the study done entails a population of interest in the research paper that is the teenagers and the youths.