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Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title: Social media and suicide

Social Media and Suicide


 * Article Evaluation

The article is well written and organized in general. Though the lead section contains the main points of the article and mentions the relationship between social media and suicide, that section could be improved by expanding more on cyberbullying and emotional distress, maybe give examples and include a link to it which would deepen our understanding of the causes of social media and suicide. It will make the lead more attractive. In addition to the neutrality of the article, the article has a substantial content with useful statistics. Perhaps adding some images from their survey result related to suicide would make the article more reliable and informative. As far as sources are concerned, this is a notable article with tons of links to reliable sources covering the topic though some of them are outdated.

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 * 1) Kumar Swain, Rakesh, and Atanu Kumar Pati. “Use of Social Networking Sites (SNSs) and Its Repercussions on Sleep Quality, Psychosocial Behavior, Academic Performance and Circadian Rhythm of Humans – a Brief Review.” Biological Rhythm Research, vol. 52, no. 8, Sept. 2021, pp. 1139–78. Taylor and Francis+NEJM,  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09291016.2019.1620487?scroll=top&needAccess=true. This article explores the various effects of social media/networking sites like Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat on humans interaction with the world around them especially in the domain of psychology. Excessive use of social media leads to a wide range of distress both on the emotional and physical level which are precursors for suicide ideation,  and procrastination among students.
 * 2) Chandran, Suhas, et al. “Media and the Role of Digital Psychiatry in Mental Health.” Digital Psychiatry, vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 34–44. Taylor and Francis+NEJM,   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2575517X.2019.1651625. The authors here acknowledged how numerous studies identified a link between media and suicide. Knowing the obvious about its negative effect, media being a risk factor for mental illness does not help the younger generation/adolescents especially when they are faced with over inclusive details about the act. This may some times lead to imitative suicide as Chowdhury et al noticed a commonality or trend when the media's presentation of the incident takes factors like and not limited to financial hardship, and broken relationships for granted.
 * 3) Parrott, Scott, et al. “Social Media and Suicide: A Validation of Terms to Help Identify Suicide-Related Social Media Posts.” Journal of Evidence-Based Social Work, vol. 17, no. 5, Sept. 2020, pp. 624–34. Taylor and Francis+NEJM, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26408066.2020.1788478. Suicide is the leading cause of death in the US and access to mainstream media or social networks contributes to an increase in frequency of this phenomenon when viewers view social media communication about suicide.

Option 2

 * Article title: Media consumption

Media Consumption


 * Article Evaluation

It is very noticeable from the start how poor of a lead section this article has especially with so much content. Not only doesn't it touch base on the main themes of the article, but it so overly summarized without much of details about the what it is all about. This is a very broad topic as there are lots of other sub topics that can fall under it, but as I initially thought, the author did a good job adding sections like the positive and negative effects of media consumption, its history and the psychology part of it on self-esteem. The article has an overall neutral tone until we reach the "Semiotics of American youth media consumption" section. This is because the author fails to include and present a more generalized and inclusive set of data as they focus more on a specific group that is the "American youth". There is a good talk page on this article with lots of sources which perhaps, need to be updated as there are newer sources with new studies about the media consumption in general. Adding to that, the origin and credibility of some of these sources are questionable and in most do not belong.


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 * 1) Chandran, Suhas, et al. “Media and the Role of Digital Psychiatry in Mental Health.” Digital Psychiatry, vol. 2, no. 1, Jan. 2019, pp. 34–44. Taylor and Francis+NEJM,   https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2575517X.2019.1651625. Media consumption in all is what and how people use media. Media became such a powerful tool of communication because we consume it everyday and since we are what we consume, the
 * 2) Niu, Chunhua, et al. “The Influence of Media Consumption on Public Risk Perception: A Meta-Analysis.” Journal of Risk Research, vol. 25, no. 1, Jan. 2022, pp. 21–47. Taylor and Francis+NEJM. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13669877.2020.1819385  Media diet is closely related to public risk perception (PRP). There are numerous heterogenous findings that focus on a sole aspect of media consumption like either the frequency of viewing general content or specific media like food safety. Also, in this meta-analysis Lee (2018) suppose media source credibility influences consumers judgment which in turn affects the reliability of the information they obtain from the source.
 * 3) Hedrick, ASHLEY. “A Meta-Analysis of Media Consumption and Rape Myth Acceptance.” Journal of Health Communication, vol. 26, no. 9, Sept. 2021, pp. 645–56. Taylor and Francis+NEJM. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10810730.2021.1986609. As the article suggests, media consumption is tied to rape as the perpetrators of such crimes feed themselves mostly with sexual media content like pornography consumption. Though the meta-analysis is on the rape myth; blaming the victim of what she was wearing at the time, accusing her of lying, saying she wanted it, or when alcohol is involved defending the perpetrator by saying he didn't mean to, are some of the rape myths commonly encountered. Media role comes in when people consume media that contains messages supporting rape myths which eventually encourages that acceptance among them.
 * 4) Cuñado, Juncal, and Fernando Pérez de Gracia. “Does Media Consumption Make Us Happy? Evidence for Spain.” Journal of Media Economics, vol. 25, no. 1, Feb. 2012, pp. 8–34. Taylor and Francis+NEJM, https://doi.org/10.1080/08997764.2012.651052 . https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/08997764.2012.651052 (Just added this 4th source because I found it interesting though it is only accounting for a specific country (Spain)

Option 3
This is a solid short concise article that could incorporate more information as the world is rapidly evolving and some potential studies might have more in depth analysis of the types of communication especially when using our non-verbal cues. The lead section could include more things like the history of behavioral communication and some visual aids, nonetheless, the article is well organized and written. The reference portion should also be updated as there are certainly new findings about this potential topic.
 * Article title Behavioral communication
 * Behavioral Communication
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 * 1) Almirall, Daniel, et al. “Longitudinal Effects of Adaptive Interventions With a Speech-Generating Device in Minimally Verbal Children With ASD.” Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology, vol. 45, no. 4, July 2016, pp. 442–56. Taylor and Francis+NEJM, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15374416.2016.1138407. The author of behavioral communication could take example on this article by including an adaptive interventions section that acknowledges different techniques like speech generating devices or picture symbol system used by speech pathologies to remedy or ease communication with the affected group.
 * 2) Barbosa, Ana, et al. “Effects of a Psycho-Educational Intervention on Direct Care Workers’ Communicative Behaviors with Residents with Dementia.” Health Communication, vol. 31, no. 4, Apr. 2016, pp. 453–59. Taylor and Francis+NEJM. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410236.2014.965382 There is satisfying evidence from this article that weeks of psycho-educational intervention among Direct Care workers not only improved their interactions with patients with dementia, but also benefited them skill-wise as it helped improve their interpersonal skills in the context of maintaining the individual's personhood which included recognition, negotiation, collaboration, validation, and stimulation.
 * 3) Manning, Jimmie. “Positive and Negative Communicative Behaviors in Coming-Out Conversations.” Journal of Homosexuality, vol. 62, no. 1, Jan. 2015, pp. 67–97. Taylor and Francis+NEJM. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00918369.2014.957127 This article explores communicative behavior in the aspect of coming out. It identifies positive behavior as having a proper communication channel, and nonverbal immediacy while the negative behavior for those coming out included lack of preparation, nervous nonverbal behavior and for the receiver, religious talk and shaming statements.

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