Below is my rough draft of my annotated bibliography for my research paper. In it I listed all of the sources I want to use for my research and how they are important and relate to the conversation. This is going to be very helpful while I am writing my paper because it gives many point of views of the conversation. It also shows what everyone is specifically researching on. Therefore, I will be able to find the research gap. So far I have realized that no one is focusing on informing the students on how Facebook is effecting them. The audience has mostly been educators or other researchers. I will be adding 5 more sources to this list and a review of them all in the beginnging on my final draft.
Witty
James Vince, et al. "Findings On Facebook In Higher Education: A
Comparison Of
College Faculty And Student Uses And Perceptions Of
Social Networking Sites." The
Internet And Higher Education 13.(n.d.): 134-140.
ScienceDirect. Web. 17 Sept. 2012.
This
academic article is determining how likely college professors versus college
students are to use Facebook for personal and academic use. They believe that since the growth of
Facebook with students recently was so powerful that the growth of Facebook
with the faculty will have the same outcome.
The researchers created a survey to prove their thinking. They came to the conclusion that because
professors are not using Facebook it proves that Facebook is not for academics
but for only social communications.
This article
is important to my research question because it is proving that students value
Facebook more than their professors, which could cause Facebook to harm
students, therefore being a negative effect.
Professors will be less likely to incorporate Facebook into their
academics which will then cause students to be spending unnecessary time on the
website. This article fits into the
conversation about the negative and positive affects of Facebook because it is
proving that Facebook is not used by professors for academic use as much as
students wish. The author James Witty
has worked in institutions such as Tennessee Department of Education, which makes him creditable.
Poellhuber,
Bruno, and Terry Anderson. "Distance Students' Readiness For Social Media
And Collaboration." International Review Of Research In Open And
Distance Learning 12.6 (2011): 102-125. ERIC. Web. 13 Sept. 2012.
This academic
article began because of the fast growing social medias in our society and teachers
are beginning to want to interact with their students through these
medias. The number of students attending
online courses is also increasing. The
author of this article, Bruno Poellhube, wanted to focus on distance students
in this study because distance students may find Facebook much more beneficial
than the students on campus. Poellhube
is from the Universite de Modtreal and The International Review of Research in
Open and Distance Learning has reviewed his article.
This
article was surprisingly very helpful to my research study. When I first read that it was about distance
students I was concerned it wouldn’t relate enough to my topic. However, distance students are still
considered college students. The article
first explained how distance students could become “invisible” to others, which
I found to be very true. The study came
to the conclusion that a significant amount of distance students enjoy being
about to collaborate with their peers, but a small amount do not. They found that the want to collaborate with
their peers increases with age, which I found to be surprising. The article gave me a positive way to look at
how Facebook can help with academics. In
special cases, like distance students, it gives them an easy way to connect
with others. The only problem that the
study did not answer is what kind of communication goes on with social medias,
academic or social.
Woodley, Carolyn,
and Catherine Meredith. "Supporting Student Transition Through
Social Media." American Journal Of Distance Education 26.2 (2012):
86-95. ERIC.
Web. 13 Sept. 2012
This academic
article, like most, began because of the rapid growth Facebook has recently
encountered, specifically for education.
The author, Carolyn Woodley, who is a part of the faculty of business
and law at Victoria University, feels that students can use Facebook to achieve
a “sense of belonging to a group with peers.” In the article the Faculty of
Business and Law’s Facebook group is studied to find the use of Facebook in an
educational setting. They look at
specifically international students and how Facebook is an advantage to
them. Their research consisted of a
complete analysis of the Facebook page.
They calculated the amount of communication between the faculty and the
students and decided whether or not it was beneficial and appropriate.
The
researchers came to the conclusion that using Facebook for “extra-curricular”
activity was positive for students, however, a discussion still needed to be
made about the appropriateness of using Facebook for teaching. They believe the main positive to Facebook is
to help students find a group to belong to so they do not feel isolated. This conclusion relates to my paper in the
fact that Facebook is positive in more of a social way. These researchers could not find the main
reason it should be used for learning but that it is important to help students
connect and belong. I do feel that just
having a belonging in a large community like a University can somehow affect
academics. Students can use their sense
of belonging they get from Facebook to create study groups, or support from
others.
Junco, Reynol.
"The Relationship Between Frequency Of Facebook Use, Participation In
Facebook Activities, And Student Engagement." Computers &
Education 58.1
(2012): 162-171. ERIC. Web. 13 Sept. 2012.
This
academic article was created to “fill a gap in the literature by using a large
sample of college students to examine the relationship between frequency of
Facebook use, participation in Facebook activities, and student
engagement.” The author, Reynol Junco,
is from the Department of Academic Development and Counseling at Lack Haven
University and the article was accepted into the Computers and Education
Journal. The researchers created a
survey to determine Facebook usage of college students at a primarily
residential institution in the Northeast.
They asked questions like, how often do you update your Facebook status,
or how often do you play games on Facebook?
The
results of the surveys proved that, “Both time spent on Facebook and time spent engaged in certain Facebook
activities can be positively predictive, negatively predictive, or positively
and negatively predictive of engagement, depending on the outcome variable.” They found that depending on whether or not
you were playing games on Facebook or looking at pictures decided whether or
not it was a positive or negative influence.
The article points out that there was a negative relationship between
Facebook chatting and preparing for class but they did not evaluate it. This opens a gap for my research. I can now begin looking into that as a
specific example.
Halter,
Heather J. Moving From A Textbook To Facebook [Electronic Resource] : College
Students' Motivations For Using Social Networking Sites
In Education / By Heather J. Halter. n.p.: Orlando, Fla. : University of
Central Florida, 2010., 2010. UCF Libraries Catalog. Web. 17 Sept. 2012.
This
academic article by, Heather J. Halter, who received her B.A. at Georgia State
University in 2005, was to analyze the benefits of using Facebook to its full
potential for educational use. She
wanted to determine a way to successfully use social medias in a learning
environment because students seem to enjoy using them. Again, the growth of social medias was the
start of this conversation. Halter
thought that Facebook could become a better alternative that students would
want to learn with. A questionnaire was
created for undergraduate students and how they felt about Facebook use.
After the
data was collected it was found that students do enjoy Facebook for keeping up
relationships but they do not enjoy using Facebook in an educational
setting. It was said that, “a Facebook
class group is the most effective way to implement social networking sites into
education.” It was found that students
do not wish for an instructor to be involved while they use Facebook for
education. I believe this is true
because students want their Facebook’s to be for their peers and purely their
social lives. Mixing their social life
with their academics seems like a bad idea.
In order to tie this in with my research it proves that Facebook is
negative to students if their professors get involved.
Hart,
Michael J. "A Study on the Motives of High School and Undergraduate
College Students
for Using the Social Network Site Facebook."
ProQuest LLC (2010). ERIC. Web. 17 Sept. 2012.
This academic article was presented to the Faculty of the
Department of Education
at
Liberty University by Michael J. Hart, to fulfill his Doctoral Degree in
Education. His study compared the
difference and outcome of using Facebook in college and high school. Hart also noticed that rapid increase in
Facebook use and wanted to determine what the difference age has on Facebook
usage. By creating an online survey,
taken by a mid-Atlantic university and two high schools in the area, he was
able to determine the motives each group has towards Facebook.
The results found that undergraduate
college students use Facebook to keep up with relationships. After reading this data I think one reason
why that makes sense is because most new college students leave behind many of
their friends and family to attend a university. This causes them to still want to connect
with their friends and family because they have just recently left them. Facebook is now one of the easiest ways to maintain
these relationships with the busy schedules that new students have. It was also found that high school students
had significantly more friends on Facebook than the undergraduate college
students, which I find odd.
To connect this with my research I
have significant data proving that Facebook is mostly used to keep up with
relationships, rather than for academics.
I am beginning to feel that it is important to separate a persons
Facebook life with their academics. The
mixture of the two may cause students to begin to dislike the main intentions
of the Facebook world.
Paula
Schlegel, et al. "Cell Phones, Text Messaging, And Facebook: Competing
Time
Demands Of Today's College Students." College
Teaching 59.1 (2011): 23-30. Academic Search Premier. Web. 17 Sept. 2012.
The main
idea in this academic article was to determine how college students use their
time. It is by Trudy L. Hanson, Kristina
Drumheller, Jessica Mallard, Connie McKee, and Paula Schegle and was published
in the College Teaching Journal.
Participates of the study completed a 490 questionnaire asking about
students technology use and academic behaviors.
The main idea taken from their data was that students are spending a
significant amount of time communicating with others rather than spending time
on their studies. Students find it hard
to study something they did not learn inside the classroom and they would
rather spend their time texting or on social networking sites. Students have admitted to using their phones
or checking up on Facebook during class time, causing a distraction to their
learning.
This article
was intended for professors to help them improve their teaching strategies with
the rapidly moving Facebook buzz. It
gives them advice to relate certain assignments with social medias. However, this article can also relate to my
research question. It proves that
Facebook does cause a negative distraction and causes students to spend more
time with electronic communication than with studying, homework, and even
paying attention in class. The biggest
tip given to teachers in this article is to use more collaborative learning
activities because students seem to enjoy working more with others. They will also be able to use their social
medias for academics.
Reynol,
Junco, and Cotten Shelia R. "No A 4 U: The Relationship Between
Multitasking And
Academic Performance." Computers & Education
59.(n.d.): 505-514. ScienceDirect. Web. 28 Sept. 2012.
This academic article by Reynold Junco, a part of the
Department of Academic
Development
and Counseling at Lock Haven University.
The purpose of this research was to determine how multitasking with
technology communication and academics affects a student GPA. For example, if a student is texting a friend
or checking up on Facebook while working on a class project or studying. Students from a 4-year public institution in
the Northeastern United States were surveyed.
The results showed that most students who are multi-tasking are on
Facebook. As I expected, the results
also showed that multi-tasking with the online medias does have a negative
outcome on a students GPA.
This article
relates to my question because it proves that multi-tasking with Facebook is
not a good idea if you want a higher GPA.
It confuses a student’s memory and creates it harder to recall
information trying to be learned or studied.
The main problem is that majority of students are using Facebook for
primarily social use. Being social the
same time as doing homework does not mix.
An important finding from this article that will help me answer my
question is, “Attempting
to pay attention to Facebook or text messaging and to schoolwork at the same
time will yield reduced capacity for essential processing and representational
holding while increasing the incidental processing necessary for a given task.”
Chu,
Melanie, and Yvonne Nalani Meulemans. "The Problems And Potential Of
Myspace
And Facebook Usage In Academic Libraries." Internet
Reference Services
Quarterly 13.1 (2008): 69-85. Academic Search Premier.
Web. 27 Sept. 2012.
This academic article written by Melanie Chu, an outreach
librarian at California State
University
San Marcos. It was made to realize how
college students are communicating with others through social medias and how it
can be incorporated into libraries. It
was determined that the main social networking site for colleges and
universities is Facebook. They claim
Facebook is more professional and an appropriate way for students to
communicate, better than MySpace. There
is hesitancy towards moving Facebook into the library but students are
beginning to use Facebook to not only communicate with their students but also
their professors.
This article relates to my topic in
the fact that people are considering using Facebook in a library setting. One positive is that if a person is online
and needs help with something in the library they can see what librarians are
on and get help.
Robert
McMorris, et al. "An Examination Of The Reciprocal Relationship Of
Loneliness
And Facebook Use Among First-Year College Students."
Journal Of Educational Computing Research 46.1 (2012): 105-117. ERIC. Web. 27
Sept. 2012.
This academic article is by Lai Lei Lou and Zheng Yan,
who attended the
University at Albany and State University of New York to “examine whether there exists a
reciprocal relationship between students’ use of social network sites and their
psychological well-being.” They were
researching on if loneliness has an impact on Facebook intensity or is Facebook
activity has an impact on loneliness. It
has been said that the Internet can lead to “negative outcomes”. However, it is also said that social
networking can decrease depression because of the relationships made or kept
with it. To find what one was true they
collected data from 340 first year college students.
Their findings were, “Facebook
intensity had a positive impact on loneliness, but motive for using Facebook
did not have any impact on loneliness, whereas loneliness did not have an
impact on Facebook intensity or motive for using Facebook.” This relates to my study in saying that
Facebook is used to only communicate with friends.
