“Specific Page Title or Article Title” | Family under the microscope |
V Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc) | Oliver James |
Title of the Entire Website (not www.) | The Guardian |
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given) | N/A |
Date Page was Last Revised | 29 May 2009 |
Date You Read It | 3 February 2012 |
<URL address> (ALL of it) | http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/may/30/children-low-esteem-internet |
FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded): |
Social networking sites like Facebook create a problem, “for several decades, [which] have shown that we have more friends but fewer intimates” (James). |
Being able to create a profile where individuals are able to post pictures, personality and looks, “[create] winners and losers” revealing that this is the main, “problem for some children” (James). |
Self-photographs that individuals post up only give other individuals the right to “rate” them, “but, mainly negative comments severely diminished that of the 7% of users” (James). |
Teenagers who feel like an outcast in their school, “try to use networks to upgrade themselves, personally and socially” but, “unfortunately, they often did not succeed” (James). |
When at a very young age, most people rely on the, “who’s in who’s out” statement that defines which crowd of people they fit most in. (James). |
Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION):
Oliver James describes how young adults to the age of twenty one are affected by how social networking sites decrease self-esteem. Oliver James cites psychologist and states his studies that make the article more reliable. The author chooses to give the advice to parents to help lower the amount of time their children use on the computer. He also ends the article to warn parents about how today’s society crashes and diminishes the self-confidence of teenagers.
Credibility of Source:
Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site?
Olive James, the author of this article continually cites psychologist and also talks about the studies that have been made to help support his position.
Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?
Oliver James seems like he wants to help warn parents about the usage of social networking sites of their kids and make sure that their kids are not so much affected on how society views and seperates people into “cool” and “not-cool’ crowds.
Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?
There is somewhat of a bias in this article due to the idea that Oliver James only lists the negative side of how Facebook lowers self-esteem in young adults.
References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?
The author cites the psychologist Enrich Fromm and talks about the two studies that have been experiemented on and how the studies further support his position of self-esteem. This made the author a very credible and reliable source. The Guardian is a US and England Newspaper website that informs individuals across the two countries about news that is traveling around the world today.
Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business?
Oliver James seems like he wants to help warn parents about the usage of social networking sites of their kids and make sure that their kids are not so much affected on how society views and seperates people into “cool” and “not-cool’ crowds.
Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing?
There is somewhat of a bias in this article due to the idea that Oliver James only lists the negative side of how Facebook lowers self-esteem in young adults.
References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility?
The author cites the psychologist Enrich Fromm and talks about the two studies that have been experiemented on and how the studies further support his position of self-esteem. This made the author a very credible and reliable source. The Guardian is a US and England Newspaper website that informs individuals across the two countries about news that is traveling around the world today.
Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project?
This source was more reliable because Oliver James cites many sources that make his position stand stronger. I will be using this source to try and make my senior paper have a strong opinion.
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