Research propsal final draft

30 January 2016

PARENTS TEENS AND DIGITAL MONITORING Comment by Rachel Cain: On p. 2 and beyond, the short title should appear in all caps without the “Running head” label. Comment by Rachel Cain: Eliminate extra space at the top of the page. Comment by Rachel Cain: What is this heading? It’s not the Title of your paper or your short title. I would eliminate it.

Introduction: Comment by Rachel Cain: Eliminate the colon.

In society today, there has been a large adoption of various digital technologies by today’s adolescents, which has added a challenge and a universal wrinkle for parents. Almost all teens want to be connected to Facebook, Ttwitter, and other online forms. Digital connectivity offers many potential benefits for individuals, ranging fromsuch as connecting to peers near and far to accessing material for school, shopping, and a lot of other things. This has made most teens to develop a spirit of hard work and promotes laziness as all the answerquestionss that are asked in class can be found on are accessed from the Iinternet. These sites as well help them to download pornographic messages, pictures, photos and information which they share with their friends and which later leads them astray, as they take most of their time in them (Guilamo-Ramos, 2014). Comment by Rachel Cain: Indent new paragraphs using a 5-space tab. Comment by Rachel Cain: ?? Is this the right word choice here? Comment by Rachel Cain: Avoid imprecise language/slang such as “things” in a formal academic paper. Comment by Rachel Cain: This what? Comment by Rachel Cain: You contradicted yourself here. Are they hard workers or lazy? Comment by Rachel Cain: Awkward sentence structure; reword.

The research question covers what the response of parents is in the matter pertaining to how their children use this kind of media. Different parents in fact take different measures to curb or simply prevent their children from using these tools in negative ways. Some parents use extreme methods like refusing their children to access such tools, while some use lenient ways such as just advising. This is evident from the previous researches that hasve been conducted by other people, which shows that not all parents are lenient, and not all parents are extremists. Comment by Rachel Cain: But what is your specific question. What question are you hoping to answer in your study? Comment by Rachel Cain: This what? What is the subject of this sentence?

This question is so important to the field of study in that it sensitizes on the danger that the present teens are facing and the challenges they are posing to their parents. It as well will provide an insight to those parents who are still sleeping and are unaware of this problem. As a matter of fact, it will provide some suggestions on how to deal with the problem considering what other researchers have found out and their advice (Clark, 2013). Comment by Rachel Cain: But why is it important to social psychology in particular vs. other fields? Comment by Rachel Cain: Awkward; rephrase. Comment by Rachel Cain: Do you mean that literally or figuratively?

Literature Review: Comment by Rachel Cain: Center this and eliminate the colon.

This study has been conducted by different research centers and individual people and their results have been recorded. First, we have the Pew Research center survey of parents of teens aged between 13 and 17 who use cell phones. The research team had an aim of getting to know how parents react to the way their teens use media and the methods they use to prevent them from using technology in the wrong way. The research finds that today’s parents use different actions to monitor their children’s online lives to encourage them use media or technology in a more responsible way. The report that was recorded shows that 39 percent of parents use parental controls for blocking, filtering or for general control of the teen’s online activities. This is an example of an extremist way of taking action. According to the report, 16 percent use monitoring tools on their children’s cell phones to track their location and that 16 percent use parental controls to restrict their teens to use cell phones. Comment by Rachel Cain: What study? The reader has no idea what study you are referring to here. Comment by Rachel Cain: Provide a properly formatted in-text citation for this study here. Comment by Rachel Cain: According to whom? A lot of people find it perfectly reasonable. Comment by Rachel Cain: I don’t understand this.

In another study research by MacAfee (year of publication) which partnered with the Anti-Bullying Alliance to help parents to trace and control their teen’s online activities, it was found that some parents respond to these problem simply blocking their online businesses or filtering who and what to connect to. Some teens were found to have gone so far but it depended on the next reaction from the parent. The survey was conducted by Atomik Research across October and November 2013. Lois M. Collins of Deseret news as well added to the list by reporting that, according to their survey, most parents monitor their teen’s digital life by using access as a discipline tool (Boyd, 2015). This tool accesses all the activities of the teen and the parent is able to read them. Zapmeta, French researchers as well conducted the same research with the aim of finding out how parents respond to the question of their teens and online services, and the results were much the same as those of Pew researchers. It showed that different parents do use different methods to deter or minimize their teen’s activities online. The researchers who conducted this study also give us the different percentages on how the parents respond. Comment by Rachel Cain: I don’t understand what this means. Comment by Rachel Cain: What does this mean? Comment by Rachel Cain: What is this? It this a peer-reviewed, scholarly source? It doesn’t sound like it. Comment by Rachel Cain: This sounds like a newspaper article, which would not be an acceptable source for a formal research paper like this. Comment by Rachel Cain: What tool? I don’t understand. Comment by Rachel Cain: What is this? Is this supposed to be an in-text citation? If so, it is not formatted correctly. Comment by Rachel Cain: What question? I don’t understand. Comment by Rachel Cain: OK, so share them with your reader. Comment by Rachel Cain: Generally speaking, don’t include authors’ last names in the body of your paper.

Kaveri Subrahmanyam (year of publication) studied in his article talked about teens’ there relationships and the connection to social media. In his article, he discusses the fact that 63% of adolescents go on the Iinternet a day. 73% of teens have a cellphone and, of those teens, 88% of them text throughout the day. Her ideas are that social media does not interrupt an individual’s time spent with family. Phones and social media are actually increasing the ability of a parent to monitor and observe what their child is doing. But continued on saying there have been several ethnographic studies that have suggested the contrary. The concern that Subrahamanyam (year of publication) finds in the overuse of social media isn’t being taught to teens in a way that will make it a good thing instead of a bad thing. Comment by Rachel Cain: How did she arrive at the conclusion? That’s sure not what I see with my teenage daughter! Comment by Rachel Cain: This is a sentence fragment. Comment by Rachel Cain: Awkward; rephrase.

In Sarah Babyliss (year of publication)article Pew: Teen Social Media Use Rising, she discusses the fact that teens are exposing a lot more of their personal life today than in the past. Her survey showed that the sharing of photos is more prevalent increasing now than in the past going up 12% from the 79% it was at three years early when Pew did the study. Babyliss also discusses that many teens do not provide accurate information on social media such as they lie about their age or name. This article is interesting and relevant because it discusses that race plays a factor in the use of social media and the parenting differences. Comment by Rachel Cain: Exposing it to what? Comment by Rachel Cain: I’m unclear on what this means. Comment by Rachel Cain: Ok, you need to elaborate upon this. Comment by Rachel Cain: Eliminate extra space between sections.

Hypothesis:

Although past research all articles that will be associated with my paper suggests that parents should limit access to social media and provide more information to their adolescents before use, that is not always going to be an effective way to prevent adverse effects. Different parents use different methods to deter their teens from using technology in a negative way. This is true because different children grow up in different places and atmospheres and are brought up by different means. As a result, you cannot use one method on all as it may not apply to other children. But the main idea is how social media such as Facebook will hurt/hinder your experiences in the future. Comment by Rachel Cain: None of this paragraph includes a testable hypothesis. What are your specific predictions?

Methods of Research:

Different methods of research can be applied but the best method of data collection method. This method although has disadvantages like lateness as it involves individual encounter with the teens or collecting information from the parents. It is also sometimes dangerous because some individual teens may cause researchers harm thinking that they are going to report them to their parents. In fact, in needs natural association and mixing with the teens without their knowledge that you are conducting a research. The moment they will be aware, they will employ deceptive techniques which will mislead a researcher leading to misleading findings. Comment by Rachel Cain: This is a sentence fragment and “data collection” is not a research method (it’s just a descriptor). Are you going to conduct an experimental study, a correlational study, a naturalistic observation, etc…? Comment by Rachel Cain: ??? Comment by Rachel Cain: Comment by Rachel Cain: Comment by Rachel Cain: That seems a little far-fetched. Comment by Rachel Cain: That’s why you discuss risks and benefits with your subjects before they volunteer for your study. Comment by Rachel Cain: I have no idea what this means.

Interviews can as well be used. However this method can only be successful if you hide the identity of the teen or the parent. This is true because it needs to guard dignity and security of the interviewee. The interview can be oral or written. In the written interview, the researcher can write either open-end or closed questions or the questionnaires are then distributed to as many participants as possible. Make sure you guarantee confidentiality of the person who will answer. When the responses are to be collected back, the researcher will then consider all of them and then see what the majority has to say. Not all the information is to be taken as true as other respondents may give misleading information or exaggerations. This method will need the researcher to use his logic in addition to the responses given in order to give a conclusion. Comment by Rachel Cain: While this is all true generally speaking, you’re not telling me anything about YOUR study and YOUR methodology.

If the responses are taken and conclusion drawn without the researchers rationality, the researcher will end up getting contrary findings from all the other researchers which is not very professional. Subjects of the research will be both parents and teens. The teens who will be contacted are the secondary school students and generally, adolescents. These subjects are chosen as this matter is affecting them: it is between parents and teens. However, much concentration will be put on parents because the teens can be mischievous in responding. In fact parents can give information that is leading. Comment by Rachel Cain: This all reads like a lecture on research methods. But I still have no idea what you are intending to study in your own study and how you intend to do it. Comment by Rachel Cain: Use a hard page return to ensure that your References page starts on a new page.

References Bayliss, S. (2013 ). Pew: Teen social media use rising. Library Journal. Boyd, D. (2015). It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. Yale University Press, 2015. Clark, L. S. (2013). The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age. OUP USA, 2013. Guilamo-Ramos, V. (2014). Parental Monitoring of Adolescents: Current Perspectives for Researchers and Practitioners. Columbia University Press, 2014. Subrahmayan, K (2010). Teens, social media, and relationships: An interview with kaveri subrahmanyam.. The Prevention Researcher, 17(S1), 11.