Jacqueline Fuentes

RWS, Tuesdays and Thursdays

7:30 8:50 am
Annotated Bibliography
Research Question:

Does the Internet cause more harm than good or is the using of the Internet have positive
outcomes?
Citations

Hagedorn, W., & Young, T. (2011). Identifying and Intervening with Students Exhibiting Signs

of Gaming Addiction and other Addictive Behaviors: Implications for Professional

School Counselors. Professional School Counseling, 14(4), 250-260. Retrieved from

http://0-www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/42732906

In this article, W. Bryce Hagedorn and Tabitha Young explain game addiction and the behaviors

that comes along with it. Although we are talking about internet addiction, gaming is a big factor

of the internet. Students will spend hours without end behind a computer screen and playing

games via the internet with other gamers all over the world. This article explains the effects that

this can have on the gamer himself and the behaviors that come along with it. Effects can include

mental and social effects. I will use this source in my paper to help me as a counter argument and

an example of addiction. There is a couple of quotes that I believe could help support my paper

and topic that I will like to use in my paper.

Huang, C. (2010). Internet addiction: Stability and change. European Journal of Psychology of

Education, 25(3), 345-361. Retrieved from http://0-

www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/23421688
In this article, Chiungjung Huang talks about a research that studied students from the end of

their freshman year to the end of their junior year. The study showed that there was more

stability than change when it comes to students using the internet. These students were prone to

depression due to internet addiction and did not make any changes in many different aspects of

their life. I plan to use this source in my paper very much because my main idea for this paper is

to talk about the harm that the internet does to the users and this source heavily talks about the

downside of the internet. It is very much so part of my main argument and there is a few quotes

that Id like to use.

Mesch, G. (2001). Social Relationships and Internet Use among Adolescents in Israel. Social

Science Quarterly, 82(2), 329-339. Retrieved from http://0-

www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/42955723

In this article, Gustavo S. Mesch is giving us a different view towards the issue of internet

addiction. In the study that he conducted, it shows that internet use did not have much of an

effect on peoples social skills. In fact, it was the people that did not use the internet as much that

had a harder time speaking to others and getting involved in the community or social gatherings.

This is an interesting point of view because the normal view about internet addiction is the total

opposite. I plan to use this source on my paper as an example of an opposing view. My reasoning

for this is because Mesch speaks about how in Israel, internet does not have that much of an

effect in social activities among adolescents. I believe that this source will help in my favor by

giving an example of a different point of view. There is specific quotes that I would like to use in

my paper that I believe could help me a lot.

Niculovi, M., ivkovi, D., Manasijevi, D., & trbac, N. (2012). Monitoring the effect of

Internet use on students behavior case study: Technical Faculty Bor, University of
 Belgrade. Educational Technology Research and Development, 60(3), 547-559.

Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/41488598

In this article, Milica Niculovi, Dragana ivkovi, Dragan Manasijevi and Nada trbac speak

about what internet addiction is usually referred to as. It is stating that it is the individual using

the internet themselves that cant control their time spent on the internet. It also states how the

users of the internet become stressed and unable to do real life things when they do not use the

internet for an extended amount of time. I will use this source in my paper to show the negative

effects that the internet has on people. It is mostly part of my main argument because I am

talking about the downsides that the internet has and how addiction to it can be very bad. There

is a couple of quotes I would like to use as reference and examples.

Search, K. (2004). Internet Addiction. GPSolo, 21(7), 48-49. Retrieved from http://0-

www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/23672844

In this article, Kenneth Search is elaborating on the dangers of internet addiction and the

dependency (addictive illness) of the internet that a lot of people have. According to this article,

internet addiction has recently been seen as bad or slightly equal to alcoholism (addiction to

alcohol). Treatment providers have recently started to help people with internet addiction with

the same techniques/help that someone with alcohol addiction and or dependency might receive.

Like alcoholics use alcohol to cope with real life problems, internet abusers rely on the internet

as well to push their problems aside or so they say. I will use this source in my paper to show

how internet addiction is truly dangerous. The comparison of internet addiction to alcoholism

can be used as a great example to show how much of a life-threatening issue it can be. There is a

couple of quotes that would help my paper become stronger and benefit it very much.
Stone, R. (2009). China Reins in Wilder Impulses in Treatment of 'Internet

Addiction'. Science, 324(5935), 1630-1631. Retrieved from http://0-

www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/20536473

In this article, Richard Stone is talking about internet addiction in China. China truly believes

that internet addiction is a genuine disorder, but they are not sure how strong of a treatment it

should have. This article can benefit myself and my paper by allowing me to have different

perspectives from around the world.

Suzan Lema Gencer, & Mustafa Koc. (2012). Internet Abuse among Teenagers and Its Relations

to Internet Usage Patterns and Demographics. Journal of Educational Technology &

Society,15(2), 25-36. Retrieved from http://0-

www.jstor.org.lib.utep.edu/stable/jeductechsoci.15.2.25

In this article, the purpose to this specific experiment was to observe if the use of the internet had

any effects on the users emotional state and mind. One of the results that came across was that

most users of the internet were using the web to escape real life problems. This was considered

as internet abuse. I will use this source in my paper to show the effects of internet dependency

on peoples emotional state of mind. Like most of the other resources I will be using for my

paper, this source will help me show how internet addiction can have a very bad effect on people

every day. I would like to use a couple of quotes from this source to help not only myself, but

also my reader understand the concept of internet addiction better.