type of use of social media, and the personality type associated with it is addressed here
both showcase the power that social media has politically: whether it be through manipulation from companies, or through positive assembling
due to social and economical differences in technology users, isolation and depression can be prevalent
talked about the same situation, Halpern focused on the way the information was obtained from users themselves, Madrigal talked about the implementation of targeted ads
same study style, and both bring up the negative emotional effects of social media
talks about the aspect of access to technology, and the impact it may have on the
this addresses the same mind tactics that social media uses to get information from users. whether it be through polls or questions about friends or pretty formatting

The Debate Around Social Media

Social Media allows
for positive social
connections

Shensa et al (disagrees)

"frequency but not SMU time remained significantly and independently associated with depressive symptoms" (156)

Marsha et al (disagrees)

"narcissism was positively associated with updating about achievements and with using Facebook for validation" (38)

Chayko (agrees)

"technology...facilitates the flow of information from person to person...This allows people to discover the kind of commonalities that can inspire social connectedness."

Nakamura (in between)

social media can "cut particular bodies out of the histories in the making"(3)

Social Media has a
strong poltical platform

Shirky

"Access to information is far less important, politically, than access to conversation." (35)

Loader et al

"Instead, alternative communication channels and modes of action, such as those enacted during the Arab Spring or Occupy movement express the voice of young citizens around the world." (145)

talks about the political use of social media through historical evidence

Technology companies
view their users as commodities

Halpern

"It’s not that this research was supposed to identify every U.S. voter just from this data, but rather to develop a method for sorting people based on Facebook’s profiles."

Madrigal

"we see that software abstraction is not simply a method to mentally and ideally conceive of a software system; it also functions as a real abstraction..." (105)

Gehl

"Alongside all of them were Facebook employees who were embedded with the Trump campaign to help them use Facebook’s various tools most effectively—including the so-called “dark posts,” used to dissuade African-Americans from showing up to vote."