User:Litheleo/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
Digital media use and mental health

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I'm choosing to evaluate this article because I feel as though this is a very important topic that doesn't get as much light as it needs to. I am also interested in learning about this topic more, you can always dig deep with this topic and find things out, as I do not have that much knowledge but more experience when it comes to social media and mental health.

Evaluate the article
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The Lead section for on this article was okay. The first sentence started off like "The relationships between digital media use and mental health have been investigated by various researchers—predominantly psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists, and medical experts—especially since the mid-1990s, after the growth of the World Wide Web.", by the first sentence I knew the article was going to be about mental health and within the first two paragraphs it gets into different perspectives to keep you opened minded on the topic. The article has good content, It has research from early 1900's to current, the article talks about the widespread of the web and how too much use of social media can cause mental illnesses. The article was toned and balanced, it specified on the illnesses of social media more than the good of it. The sources I evaluated were up to date and were cited if written by someone(ex. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0165178119308054). The article dint have any pictures to back up the topic and was not appealing because it looked so long it was very informational with research. There wasn't much in the talk page for this article or maybe I wasn't looking correctly but when I clicked over to "Talk" I didn't see that much of a talk track. Overall, I thought the article was very informational and had a lot studied research in it. I like how they broke down different illnesses and talked about how the illnesses can be linked to social media and why. it was long but informational and If I was to write a research paper on social media and mental illness, I would use this article for some information.