Annotated Bibliography: Cracker, N., & March, E.

Annotated Bibliography

Cracker, N., & March, E. (2016). The dark side of Facebook: The Dark Tetrad, negative social potency, and trolling behaviors. In Personality and Individual Differences, (102); 79-84. Retrieved from ScienceDirect database. doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.06.043 When it comes to social media, there is always a post that makes people question if it is real. This article talks about a specific group of people who “Troll” on Facebook, a social media that lets people who create an account share, post, and keep in touch with family or friends. A Troll would be considered someone who manipulates images or information. The author of this article talks about a survey type of questionnaire that was done to a large group of people to

This article talks about how the media takes a big part of the cause of teen dating violence. Whether the media be social, television, or video games, people are exposed to violence at a young age. The article mentions how many of the teens get unrealistic ideas from the media that make them believe that all relationships and with the “perfect” ending, so when the teens become a victim of the violence, they are convinced that there is still hope for a better ending. Because of the belief that things will get better, many of the victims decide to stay in the unhealthy relationship because of the hope they get from the media. This hope leaves them with three different ways the relationship could end, either be literally beaten to death, continue to live life being a victim of violence, or accept the fact that things will not change, and move on. The article mentions that is a common belief that most violence in younger adults, or teens comes from the violence that is seen on media. Many of the people who do the violence, are people have been exposed to violence at a young age it; Whether it be the media, or their own household. The article talks about how there are movie clips of violence, and fighting videos openly posted on social media that eventually become viral, exposing kids to violence making them believe that what they are doing is not as bad

This article by Rosen talks about how media and technology usage could cause anxieties and attitudes that could potentially be symptoms of either six personality disorder, or three types of mood disorders. The personality disorders that the author talks about are histrionic, schizoid, antisocial, paranoid, narcissistic, and compulsive. The three mood disorders include bipolar-mania, major depression, and dysthymia. In this article the author writes about an anonymous questionnaire that was taken by young teens and adults. The results showed that many of the people related Facebook, a social networking site (SNS), as being a major aspect of these disorders, later in this article it is stated that, Facebook does cause attitudes and anxieties that are possible symptoms of these disorders. I found this source to be credible because it is peer reviewed and well written. I intend on using this source as part of my research paper because it has good content and information related to my