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Research Proposal
Topic:
The Shallows and Social Media
Thesis:
The main focus on this topic is the effects social media has on our ability to communicate using information from the book by Nicholas Carr, “The Shallows: What is The Internet Doing To Our Brains.”
Guiding questions
What is social media?
Does social media impact our communication?
If so, are the impacts positive or negative?
How diverse is social media?
How are the different social media platforms, and does this diversity impact our communication?
What are the solutions to this problem?
Argument
The world transcended into a global brain village with the coming of the internet and the conception of social media. Through the years, as we have enjoyed social, it has been of significance to our cognitive and social selves. Through social medial, a lot of information gets shared from person to person. Social platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter have broadened our communicative reach. Still, it has also harmed our ability to communicate, all at the same time. Our ability to socialize in real life has diminished since most humans began sharing behind a keyboard.
Informal Research
The sources that will be used in writing the research paper.
Reference Work:
Mohsin, Maryam. “10 Social Media Statistics You Need to Know in 2021 [Infographic].” Oberlo.Com, 10 Nov. 2021, www.oberlo.com/blog/social-media-marketing-statistics.
Book:
Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Updated, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Articles:
Carr, Caleb T. “Social Media: Defining, Developing, and Divining.” Taylor & Francis, 6 Feb. 2015, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15456870.2015.972282Bozzola, Elena. “Social Media Use to Improve Communication on Children and Adolescent’s Health: The Role of the Italian Paediatric Society Influencers.” Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 11 Aug. 2021, ijponline.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13052-021-01111-7.
Audio-visual:
“Social Media Is Making Us Unsocial | Kristin Gallucci | TEDxBocaRaton.” YouTube, uploaded by TEDx Talks, 27 Nov. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cD5En8Vfg.
Purpose of Essay
This essay aims to bring the use of social into perspective. It has significantly influenced our daily conversations and inherently made us unsocial. This essay will show the negative impact social media has on our ability to communicate with each other and give ways to overcome that negative aspect of social media. The essay’s information reflects the society today shaped by social media and sheds light on how to avoid becoming unsocial.
Annotated Bibliography
Mohsin, Maryam. “10 Social Media Statistics You Need to Know in 2021 [Infographic].” Oberlo.Com, 10 Nov. 2021, www.oberlo.com/blog/social-media-marketing-statistics.
This website
Mohsin, Maryam. “10 Social Media Statistics You Need to Know in 2021 [Infographic].” Oberlo.Com, This website provides statistics on social media and social media use. It includes data on social media usage by most prominent app, service by generation, time spent on social media, and social media’s positive impact on product branding. This information is focused on social media on businesses. Still, the data is also applicable in knowing the time spent on social media, prominent apps used, and generational use of social media. Determining the average time spent on social media helps us determine how frequently people use social media. This will help conclude that social media has shaped communication and its impact on communication., 10 Nov. 2021, www.oberlo.com/blog/social-media-marketing-statistics.
Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Updated, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. This book is written by Nicholas Carr, a renowned columnist of the Atlantic. The book was the brainchild of his famous article, “Is Google Making Us Stupid.” It is credible as it sites information on various data collected by academic researchers, data science, and official studies. He speaks about how the world got revolutionized through the internet and the changes man is undergoing, thanks to the internet. He alludes that the internet did change human beings. It influences change in our intellectual and cognitive selves, making us lazy in a sense. He cites that “The Internet provides such a feast of distraction that no energy is left for the parts of our brains responsible for complex thought and developing subtle human emotions.” This book is relevant to the essay as it provides us with information on the impact of internet use on our cognitive selves, which affects our socialization and communication., W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Carr, Caleb. “Social Media: Defining, Developing, and Divining.” Taylor & Francis, 6 Feb. 2015, www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15456870.2015.972282?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Caleb Carr, a graduate of Illinois State University with a Bachelor’s degree in communication, wrote the scholarly article “Social Media: Defining, Developing, and Divining.” In Carr’s article, he talks about how there’s no strictly used definition of Social Media. Instead, a liquid understanding is shared amongst its users. Carr goes on to talk about how social media can “uniquely isolate and test communicative principles to advance our understanding of human-human and human-computer interaction.” In his article, Carr dissects the necessity there is to define social media and have that meaning be applicable clear thru at least 2035
Bozzola, Elena. “Social Media Use to Improve Communication on Children and Adolescent’s Health: The Role of the Italian Paediatric Society Influencers.” Italian Journal of Pediatrics, 11 Aug. 2021, ijponline.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13052-021-01111-7.
Bozzola, Elena. “Social Media Use to Improve Communication on Children and Adolescent’s Health: The Role of the Italian Paediatric Society Influencers.” Italian Journal of Pediatrics is an online article concerned about social media’s effect on children and adolescents; it gives us a specific approach to the research projects. It will guide me by providing a trajectory on social media’s impact on children and teenagers. It will help support the notion that social media affects our social lives cuts across all ages. The article will also help develop suggestions on how to overcome the effects., 11 Aug. 2021, ijponline.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13052-021-01111-7.
“Social Media Is Making Us Unsocial | Kristin Gallucci | TEDxBocaRaton.” YouTube, uploaded by TEDx Talks, 27 Nov. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cD5En8Vfg.
“Social Media Is Making Us Unsocial | Kristin Gallucci | TEDxBocaRaton.” YouTube, uploaded by TEDx Talks, 27 Nov. 2019, www.youtube.com/watch?v=66cD5En8Vfg
This is an audio-visual source. It is a speech done by Kristin Gallucci, a renowned marketing expert. She speaks to marketers about people’s emotions and how social media influence them. It will help with the essay as it helps us understand human emotions and how they get triggered through interactions on the internet.
Abstract inquiry
After looking at several abstracts, I found that they all have a specific pattern in writing. They all follow a similar prompt in an essay and are meant to be captivating to the reader of the journal, book, or article. The formula used in writing the abstract is as follows:
First, State the problem to be discussed in the essay
Present the main points of the essay
State the overall importance of the piece.
Provide the background of the information present as required.
Make the writing of the essay as straightforward as possible, use keywords that capture the reader by making the paper’s objectives identifiable.
Below will be the abstract of the essay:
Abstract
What is social media? Does social media impact our communication? Is there diversity in social media spaces? How are the different platforms diversifying our contact with each other? Social media holds an important place in our world today. It has changed the way we think to the way we operate. The social sites are many, and the different areas have a distinct influence on our communications. This essay aims to bring the use of social media into perspective. It has significantly affected our daily conversations and inherently made us unsocial. This essay will show the negative impact social media has on our ability to communicate with each other and give ways to overcome that negative aspect of social media. The essay’s information reflects the society today shaped by social media and sheds light on how to avoid becoming unsocial.
P.R.O.V.E.N Test of Sources
Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. Updated, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020.
The above source passes the PROVEN Test. It ticks all boxes upon evaluation
This book aims to persuade readers to support the authors though that the internet has an inherent role in academic ethics. The author purports that the internet seeks to diminish our intellectual ability. If the user is left ungoverned, its impact on our cognitive selves is disastrous. The author packaged this information into as it was initially an article that grew in relevance, and the intended action was to gather comprehensive information on the issue. The target audience for this book is the general public.
The book is relevant in regards to the research proposal. The information the book provides is crucial in building the background of the essay. The facts presented are too detailed and support that social media has led to disastrous outcomes regarding communication. This is because it leans towards how the internet makes us less intelligent. Intelligence is a crucial ingredient to communication. The source’s objectivity is, without a doubt. The information is given in complete order and form. The cultural ideology purported by the author is clear and well defined. The author also uses a mixture of fact and opinion.
The author makes the information in his book verifiable. The book’s end is a list of the works cited and links provided for the data used in compiling the report. The citations used are clickable and can be found on the internet. The book is published by Norton & Company, a renowned world publisher. The author has unquestionable experience working as a reporter and columnist for the Atlantic Newspaper. The book has several reviews and can all be found on the internet. The book also uses recent statics and is relatively new as it was published one year ago.
Synthesis
The author of the book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain, Nicholas Carr. has a catalog of articles; as previously mentioned, he was a columnist for the Atlantic. The article I found more relevant to this research paper is “Is Google Making Us Stupid.” This article speaks to this research paper, touching on social media use and its impact on our socio-cognitive selves.
The question posed in this article is doing the internet influence our ability to think. He uses exciting approaches in trying to lean towards supporting that idea. “The Shallows” is glistening with memorable themes―Friedrich Nietzsche fighting with his typewriter, Freud dissecting the brains of sea creatures, and other philosophical greats. He uses a very creative approach in the article to refer to how social media has reduced the human brain’s ability to think and conceptualize.
His works follow a similar pattern. They all use scientific information. He idealizes, forms conclusions, and strongly supports his knowledge. The information provided through all his sources is intended for the general public, but keen readers get a complete picture of the writer’s thoughts.
Reflection
I found coming up with this research paper prompt a very informative and essential process. I learned about the techniques of coming up with a research paper. Gathering information for the research paper seems to be the most demanding part of the writing process. The process I used to develop the report included an objective approach. Focusing on the specifics guidance from the internet came in handy.
I used five resources in coming with the prompt. I found using the BEAM approach in utilizing the resources an easy way of coming up with the research paper and would recommend it to other students when writing research papers. I collaborated with fellow students to come up with the right sources and determine the sources’ credibility and order of use. When selecting the topic for the research, I followed a rubric recommended by one of my colleagues. The rubric recommended was first comparing and contrasting the issues chosen by other students, Eliminating the most preferred subjects, and coming up with a list of the problems I could write on. I then Wrote down a rough draft of all difficulties and selected the one which seemed more appealing with information that was easily accessible.
The key takeaways from the assignments include lessons from content researching, source selection, and the research writing process. The studies from content researching include; getting credible information, identifying critical questions for my research, getting credible databases, scrutinizing sources, and the formulae used in writing deduced from these sources.
These lessons are applicable in writing other related topics as well. For example, the information from the website Orbelo.com can be used by fellow students in gathering data about social media use. The data from the article by Bozzola, Elena, can be used in gathering information on social media’s impact on children. The writing rubric is also applicable in all research papers regardless of the topic