Lee Glazebrook Professor Adam Padgett ENGL 1102 February, 26th 2013 Annotated Bibliography Inquiry: How does

Social Media affect the spread of News, and how is it changing what we consider news? Proposal Thesis: Social Media has helped to create a new generation of spreading news to the public. Ben-Ari, Elia. "Twitter: What's All the Chirping About?" BioScience 59.7 (2009): 632. JSTOR. Web. 24 Feb. 2014. This article was published in BioScience, a magazine published by Oxford University, and was written by Elia Ben-Ari a Scientist with a B.A in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in pharmacology. This article discusses the uses of Ttwitter for scientists. It shows that groups have been started on twitter giving people updates in whatever particular field they want to research allowing them to constantly know what is going on in the community as well as what new discoveries have occurred. I plan to use this article to show that social media is allowing advancement in scientific fields by allowing that constant connectivity. This article also shows that social media can be used as a medium for the scientific community to show the public some of what they are doing and what is happening. This is because places like Ttwitter free outlets for the public to see any updates on what they are interested without going out of their way to find it, because chances are good they are checking twitter regardless. This article also shows that twitter has already been used as a way to collect and submit data. This was shown from a study done here in North Carolina where fisherman tweeted the stats of the fish they caught to fishery management
Comment [AP3]: Okay, so why is this important? Comment [AP4]: This phrase is awkwardly placed. Comment [AP1]: Okay, this is an interesting topic, but it seems a little axiomatic. What is the purpose of pointing this out?

Comment [AP2]: Your citation tells me all of this.

service. I believe I can use this article to help understand how social media helps advancements in science

Comment [AP5]: This is neat.

Ehrenberg, Rachel. "Scientists Take on Twitter: Social Media Comes into Its Own as a Tool and a Subject for Study." Science News 182.13 (2012): n. pag. JSTOR. Web. 24 Feb. 2014. This article was written by Rachel Ehrenberg a writer with degrees in Botany and political Science as well as several awards for her writings in the Science News Journal. This Article discusses why scientists are now looking into studying how social media affects news coverage. They point to examples like the recent flu season where following tweets Scientists were actually able to see the path the Flu was taking. this article primarily shows the political use of Social Media. One of the positives was that they had hard proof that someone who noticed a friend voted on social media was more likely to go vote themselves. On the flip side it also showed that as the elections drew closer many more fake stories supporting or bashing politicians began to emerge on social media. I feel like I can use this article to display some of the pros and cons of news traveling through social media and how it affects politics.
Comment [AP6]: This is really interesting.

Tierney, John. "Good News Beats Bad on Social Networks." The New York Times. The New York Times, 18 Mar. 2013. Web. 26 Feb. 2014. This article was written by John Tierney a writer for the New York Times From Yale University. This article is also supported with numerous findings from studies done over the past few years. This article discusses what news is being circulated through social media. The article uses many experiments that look into what people are sending which parts of their brains are active when reading certain news stories and how that affects where, and if, they send them. The article shows that social media has caused people to read happier news stories which contradicts what mass media has done since its conception. This rails against the idea that only negative news
Comment [AP7]: Can you give specifics?

attracts an audience which is a theory that major broadcast networks have worked off for years. The study continues on to show what type of news people circulate through social media by sharing with a friend or retweeting. I feel like this article can help me with my paper because it gives a very scientific perspective on why we view the articles we do as well as how seeing all of this positivity on social media affects the general public.

Juris, Jeffrey S. "Reflections on #Occupy Everywhere: Social Media, Public Space, and Emerging Logics of Aggregation." American Ethnologist 399.2 (2012): 259-79. JSTOR. Web. 24 Feb. 2014. This article was written by Jeffrey Juris The assistant professor of anthropology at Northeastern University. This article discusses the use of Social media in public actions like protests or strikes. The author points to specific examples where the Occupy movements would convene right in front of him all because of people linking up on Ttwitter to coordinate the protest. The article shows social media going a step further when a local police officer becomes excessively violent and all of a sudden the world has dozens of video supporting why their movement is necessary I believe I can use this article to show how social media can help the public to interact with politics. This article points to the ways we can now use social media to express our personal freedoms as well as put ideas out to the world.
Comment [AP8]: Okay, but this also begs the question: what is your purpose with this paper? Who is your audience? What do you hope to accomplish?

Lin, Yu-Ru, and David Lazer. "Watching How Ideas Spread Over Social Media." Leonardo 46.3 (2013): 277. JSTOR. Web. 24 Feb. 2014. The Authors of this article are both professors at universities. David Lazer is a professor at Northeastern and Yu-Ru Lin is a professor at Pittsburg. This article focuses on figuring out how information travels through social media. A program was created called Wwhisper that allowed them to see where a tweet or post started from and track as it was re tweeted or shared throughout the systems and how far it progressed. I believe this article will be useful for my

paper because it not only allows us to see how far the information really is traveling but the article has examples where you can see when a story gets the most buzz or people give it the most attention. This allows for me to focus on how news travels through social media.
Comment [AP9]: And why is this important?

Conclusion: In Conclusion I feel like these articles will be the most beneficial to me because they allow me to see how social media transports news and why its being used. With this assortment of articles I can see perspectives for how it helps in science and academic fields, politics for the politicians and the public, and just what the public wants to read overall.
Lee, You have done a really great job here with these sources and pulling direct quotes from them and then analyzing those quotes. I would like to see you place these really interesting ideas into a clearer conversation. I think my comments on your goals are important here. As your thesis is now, it seems really broad, nearly too broad, and could benefit from reconsidering what it is that you want to accomplish. Why is it important to point out that information travels fast with social media? Dont we already know this? What about misinformation? I want you finding a specific audience and when you compose your research paper, you should be writing to that audience in hope of accomplishing whatever goal it is that you ultimately set out to accomplish.