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Evaluating Narcotizing Dysfunction Article:

 * Citing needs some work. A better source is needed for a few sentences, and a disputable claim in the introduction has no source.
 * Much of this article appears to be plagiarized or closely paraphrased from Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton's "Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action".
 * The "History" of the article seems mostly irrelevant to the topic and is poorly written, with only one citation. There are many assumptions made without any credited sources, and some information appears to be false. It either needs to be scrapped or rewritten with more relevant and factual info.
 * There is no "Sources" section. Most of the information in this article comes from the same source.

Paul F. Lazarsfeld's and Robert K. Merton's Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action seems to be the only article/study that discusses narcotizing dysfunction in detail, and they're the ones who coined the theory. There doesn't appear to be any other recent or relevant studies over the topic.

Sources:

 * Lazarsfeld, Paul Felix, and Robert King Merton. Mass Communication, Popular Taste and Organized Social Action. Bobbs-Merrill, College Division, 196AD.
 * Eşitti, Şakir (2016-04-01). "Narcotizing Effect of Social Media". Çankırı Karatekin Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 7.

Draft Ideas:

 * Scrap the paragraph under "History". None of the info currently there is relevant to the topic. Add info about when the term was coined, who coined it, and when it gained popularity. Add info over its appearance in Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action. Possibly find information over its use in modern day studies.
 * Edit sentences in the introduction so they are no longer plagiarized.
 * Add more to "See also", possibly "Hypodermic needle model", "Paul F. Lazarsfeld", "Structural functionalism".

Draft:
INTRO:

As more time is spent educating oneself of current issues, there is a decrease in time available to take organized social action. Courses of action may be discussed, but they are rather internalized and never come to fruition.

Mass media's overwhelming flow of information has caused the populace to become passive in their social activism.

These individuals have unwittingly substituted knowledge for action.

HISTORY:

The term narcotizing dysfunction gained popularity from its use in the 1957 article Mass Communication, Popular Taste, and Organized Social Action, by Paul F. Lazarsfeld and Robert K. Merton. In the Lazarsfeld and Merton's article, it appears as the third function of mass media's problematic social effects, alongside social status conferral function and the enforcement of social norms.

SEE ALSO:

Add "Slacktivism"