• Week 19-26 March – Introduction, Influence of social media and slides.

• Week 26 March/ 02 April – Positive aspects: Sharing, Monetizing.

• Week 02-09 April – Positive aspects: Creativity, Helpful socials, Pacifica.

• Week 09-16 April – Positive aspects’ slides.

• Week 16-23 April – Negative aspects: Cyberbullying, Oversharing.

• Week 23-30 April – Negative aspects: Addiction, Misinterpretation, Socializing.

• Week 30-2 May – Negative aspects’ slides, interview, video editing.

• Week 2-5 May – Integration of multimedia material in slides, personal comment.

Social media are websitesand applications thatenable users to create and share content or to participate in social networking.

Social media has a huge impact nowadays, in particular on teenagers. Not only because this group of children is developmentally vulnerable but also because they are among the heaviest users of social networking. According to a report by Common Sense Media, 75 percent of teenagers in America currently have profiles on social networking sites, of which 68 percent use Facebook as their main social networking tool. The biggest social media are Facebook, Youtube, Whatsappand Instagram.

This influence has many positive and negative consequences.

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POSITIVE

SHARING

MONETIZING

CREATIVITY

HELPFUL SOCIALS

You can easily share any type of content, such as comments, messages, opinions, ideas or pictures, that can get to a larger amount of people. This can be used to reach out to many users all around the world, spreading positive messages that could be helpful.

For example in politics social networks are very important means to promote election

campaigns, because they allow candidates to propose their ideas

all over the country.

Over the past five years, social media websites have become some of the largest and most meaningful pieces of the digital marketing puzzle. If you have a lot of

followers on Instagram, you can earn money by: promoting brands (as an influencer), selling a product, becoming an instacelebrity.

Instagram is known to be the biggest platform where you can let your creativity out. Sharing your pictures is not only a way to show other people what you have been up to, but it’s also a nice approach to inspire users.

• With the evolution of technology, the society has been able to come a long way.

• This has also allowed the society to be more inclusive for people with disabilities.

• Social networks have greatly influenced the disabled community in academic, social, entertainment and business approaches.

• Key accessibility features of phones, computers and social media have allowed people with disabilities to stay connected and informed.

• An example is a site and app called “PACIFICA”.

• The app provides tools for managing depressed mood, anxiety and stress that are built upon principles of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy , relaxation and health.

• The app has a clearly described privacy policy in which it is stated that personal information is not shared, that geo-location data are not collected, but also that personal information may be used for analysis.

• While using Pacifica, the user is first asked to rate mood using a 7-point scale.

• Each point on the scale can be associated with programmed descriptive words, or new descriptors that the user can create.

• Users may also add a written journal entry of events associated with the current mood rating.

• After entering a mood rating, the user can choose to address mood issues with one of five activities: Meditations, Goals, Thoughts, Health or Relax.

MEDITATIONS

• The Meditations section gives a simple breathing exercise.

GOALS

• In the Goals section, the user is asked to pick from a list of therapeutic goals and to rate the expected difficulty of achieving the goal.

• The app tracks progress towards achieving the goal.

THOUGHTS

• In the Thoughts section, the user is asked to record thoughts associated with the current mood rating and then to examine and challenge the thoughts.

HEALTH

• In the Health section of the app, data such as caffeine intake, sleep analysis and workouts, can be automatically linked.

• The user may also track data using 16 categories of health related behaviors such as exercise, water intake, alcohol and cannabis use, and medications.

RELAX

• In the Relax section there is a deep breathing exercise as well.

NEGATIVE

SOCIALIZING

CYBERBULLYING

OVERSHARINGADDICTION

MISINTERPRETATION

CYBERBULLYING

It’s a kind of bullying using electronic means. It has many forms which include Cyberstalking and Trolling. With the social users amount increasing the act of cyberbullying has been spreading widely, especially through teenagers.

• Cyberbullying can occur through SMS, Text, and apps, or online in social media, forums, or gaming where people can view, participate in, or share content.

• It includes sending, posting, or sharing negative, harmful, false, or mean content about someone else.

• It can include sharing personal or private information about someone else causing embarrassment or humiliation.

• Some cyberbullying crosses the line into unlawful or criminal behavior.

• The most common places where it occurs on Social Media are: Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and Twitter.

Cyberbullying has unique concerns in that it can be:

• Persistent – Digital devices offer an ability to immediately and continuously communicate 24 hours a day, so it can be difficult for children experiencing cyberbullying to find relief.

• Permanent – Most information communicated electronically is permanent and public, if not reported and removed. A negative online reputation, including for those who bully, can impact college admissions, employment, and other areas of life.

• Hard to Notice – Because teachers and parents may not overhear or see cyberbullying taking place, it is harder to recognize.

• The 2014–2015 School Crime Supplement indicates that, nationwide, about 21% of students ages 12-18 experienced bullying.

• The 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance also indicates that an estimated 16% of high school students were bullied electronically in the 12 months prior to the survey.

• It happens when people post personal information, forgetting that once you upload something, it will be up forever.

• Everyone can see what you post on the net, so you have to be careful, because you won’t ever be able to delete it permanently.

FAKE NEWS

• Fake news are another kind of oversharing, consisting of deliberate misinformation spread by traditional print or online social media.

• There are seven types of fake news: satire or parody, false connection, misleading content, false context, imposter content, manipulated content, fabricated content.

«Anything youpost online, anyonecan see»

• Social media are proven to be able to cause a release of dopamine.

• The act of liking pictures and sharing your own provokes a fake sense of accomplishment, which leads to addiction.

• As we said before, social media are huge platforms where you can spread any kind of message.

• These can diffuse as fast as they can be misinterpreted. Sometimes bad interpretation of a comment can trigger an unstopping process of self-esteem lowering.

• It happens mainly to teenagers, who are willing to change themselves just to fit in and are massively influenced by social networks.

• In 2014, a research team from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine analyzed 1,765 American adults aged 19 and 32 years old.

• They asked the participants to answer a series of questionnaires to describe their social media usage and also to determine their risk of developing eating disordered symptoms.

• Their findings revealed that the subjects who spent the most time engaged with social media each day had 2.2 times the risk of developing eating disorders. Additionally, those who most frequently checked their social media feeds weekly carried 2.6 times the risk.

• Social media can also be home for toxic communities that may advocate unhealthy eating disordered eating behavior.

• Pro-anorexia (“pro-ana”) and pro-bulimia websites and online forums are publicly available; they are interactive and promote starvation. While social media outlets, or even pro-ana sites and content do not directly cause eating disorders, they may normalize disordered eating behaviors and discourage recovery.

I BECAME ANOREXIC FOR INSTAGRAM

REDUCTION OF SOCIALIZING SKILLS

• Spending too much time on social networks, people tend to limit their friendships to virtual ones.

• Digital conversation is overtaking physical interaction, and this lack of contact is leading to a progressive impoverishment of socializing skills.

LET’S SEE WHAT TEENAGERS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA

PERSONAL COMMENT

We both are used to being on social media on a daily basis, especially because we have a

big community of online friends that are unreachable if not through social networks.

We also run a few activities that enable us to engage with an amount of people, and to amass followers with whom we can share content that we like. As most people our

age, our lives are built and focused on social media usage, which has become almost

needed. We are fully aware though that social media’s platform can be extremely

dangerous, so we are always using them with huge carefulness.

To reduce the many risks of spending so much time on social networks, we suggest to users:

1. keeping in mind that there’s a real world outside the digital one, and you won’t be able to escape it just by misleading yourself with a virtual reality;

2. not taking too seriously all the comments that you might get on social networks, and not to share mean comments about other people;

3. having a good balance between digital and real life activities.

Federica Caracciolo

Chiara Pennoni

SITOGRAPHYSocial media

• https://www.google.it/search?ei=fGHsWuSmD4O3gQb4nrzoBQ&q=social+media+definition&oq=social+media+de&gs_l=psy-ab.1.1.0l10.14046.14834.0.16676.3.3.0.0.0.0.159.370.0j3.3.0....0...1c.1.64.psy-ab..0.3.369...0i67k1.0.v7WfYshEoFI

Influence of social media

• https://www.huffingtonpost.com/suren-ramasubbu/influence-of-social-media-on-teenagers_b_7427740.html

Sharing

• https://blog.bufferapp.com/a-guide-to-social-media-sharing-what-when-and-how

Monetize

• https://marketingland.com/5-ways-monetize-social-media-followings-211066

• https://www.quora.com/How-can-I-monetize-my-Instagram-account

Creativity

• https://youtu.be/N8Qs-wCbHgw

Helpful socials

• https://medium.com/arise-impact/accessible-social-media-and-apps-give-a-voice-to-people-with-disabilities-c61d6497d620

Pacifica

• https://psyberguide.org/expert_review/pacifica-expert-review/

Videos

• https://youtu.be/F5zSw1ExmwA

• https://youtu.be/ThxmgXMBpoM

Fake News

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_news

Cyber bullying

• https://www.stopbullying.gov/cyberbullying/what-is-it/index.html

Addiction

• https://youtu.be/HffWFd_6bJ0

Misinterpretation

• https://www.mirror-mirror.org/social-media.htm

Collaborating with Alessandro Chinosi & Anna Pennoni.