Project # 1

Minor Project 

   My research question is how to find a tool for reducing negative impacts on youth’s social media usage.It is common for youth to use computer-mediated communication among their society. Social media has affected to young’s interaction of activities. This issue is contested between some researchers saying this is benefit to adolescents and others saying this is too susceptible to them at under risk-taken without navigator. 

   There are many studies which investigate the impact of social media on children. Researchers who have looked at this risk impacts are Kaveri Subrahmanyam, Sonia Livingstone and A. Fernández.

   They argued that main risks to adolescents are from cyber bullying, online harassment, improperuse of technology, lack of privacy, and false posting information. 

   Subrahmanyam et al (2009) argued that adolescents used online environment to explore matters that are important in their everyday life. 

   According to Livingstone et al (2010), youth perceived online and offline boundaries be tightly integrated. Livingstone et al (2010) found that a correlation between depression, physical abuse and substance abuse with various risky behaviors was likely to lead to bad choice in relation to online activities. 

   Fernández, A (2011) reported that online problem for youth was facing of cyber bullying, depression and social anxiety, risk-taking, and sexual development.

   Although the debate centers on this issue that show factors increasing risks for youth’s online usage, there is no tool to alert youth to these risks. There is a gap to find out what factors are significantly correlated to the decrease in these risks.

   My research will be closely related to Sonia Livingstone’s study to understand the role of factors involving in online risks, additional support for this issue. It is very important to monitor youth to aware risks from social media.   

   Hopefully, my contribution will be to suggest a measure or a tool to help adults guard their youth from risks of social media usage.  

Reference List 

1.Fernández, A. (2011). Clinical Report: The impact of social media on children, adolescents and families. Archivos de Pediatría del Uruguay, 82(1), 31-32.

2.Livingstone, S., Haddon, L., Görzig, A., & Ólafsson, K. (2010). Risks and safety on the internet. The perspective of European children. Final findings from the EU Kids Online survey of, 9-16.

3.Subrahmanyam,K., Garcia, E., Harsono,L.S., Li, J. S., & Lipana,L.(2009). In their words: Connecting on‐line weblogs to developmental processes. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27(1), 219-245.

Assignment #2: Introduction (Youth’s social media usage)

Assignment #2: Introduction

Title : 

How much appropriate youth’s social media usage for reducing negative impacts

Introduction :   

Stage 1  Computer-mediated communication has expanding an influence on human behavior. It changes significantly people interaction that facilitate has modified the nature of their activities and habitats. Computer-mediated user for social purposes has enhanced dramatically over recent years, with 42% of Thai participating in some type of social media website as Facebook, Thailand Facebook user ranks as the ninth of the world in 2014. The number of Facebook users in the country effectively increased from 18.3 million to 28.0 million (Pongvitayapanu ,2014). Social network is a relatively new phenomenon and permits social interaction among users to allows them to create online profiles that represent the user's real-life identity (users personalize profile pages with image, audio, and text, and designate friends and others). It is attractive to people because they can admit for both to self-individualized or inclusion into a group that may not be achievable in physical reality.

Stage 2   Social media have a direct impact on everyone during daily face-to-face interactions; Internet-based entities are playing an increasingly large role during this critical life stage. “Using social media becomes a risk to adolescents” (Fernández ,2011,P31-32) this statement that similar to Cookingham& Ryan (2015) found that online activities become a high- risk to youth’s behaviors. Social Media related to youth’s violence (Patton et al., 2014). 
Stage 3 Not only using more social media consumption, there is limited the amount of youth's peer-to-peer ability to socialize but also being sensitive on the vulnerable to the practice of youth’s violence.How much appropriate to reduce negative impacts for youth’s social media usage . 

Stage 4  One model proposed to explain how youth integrate social media into their self- life. This model assumes three key things in understanding the effect of social media on adolescents that:

1) Social media usage of youth’s behavior.  

2) Social media consumption how its effects are in negative with youth’s users

3) Identify a tool to help reducing ์negative impacts for youth’s social media usage is  and applied in daily life.

Stage 5 The results of this study may suggest a tool for reducing negative impacts on youth’s social media usage.

Reference:

Cookingham,L.M.,&Ryan,G.L.(2015).The Impact of Social Media on the Sexual and Social Wellness of Adolescents.Journal of pediatric and adolescent gynecology,28(1),2-5.

Fernández,A.(2011).Clinical Report:The impact of social media on children,adolescents and families.Archivos de Pediatría del Uruguay, 82(1),31-32.

Patton,D.U.,Hong,J.S.,Ranney,M.,Patel,S.,Kelley,C.,Eschmann,R.,& Washington,T.(2014).Social media as a vector for youth violence:A review of the literature.Computers in Human Behavior,35,548-553.

Pongvitayapanu,P.(2014).Thailand Zocial Awards 2014[news].Zocial inc.[cited 2014 May 28].Available from: http://www.it24hrs.com/2014/thai-social-network-2014/