TOPIC: Social Networks and Social & Emotional Development

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Special Resource Material
• Examples of Using Interactive Technology to Assist in Addressing Barriers to Learning
• Youth and Socially Interactive Technologies

Practice Notes
• A Student’s Proposal for Using an Online Chat Room to Facilitate Student Discussion

Information Resources
• About Gamified Learning and Intrinsic Motivation for Classroom Learning
• Concerns about Media Use Among Children and Adolescents
• Cyberbullying among Students
• Is Internet Use Interfering with YoungstersWell-being?
• Ostracism at School
• Peer Tutoring: Part of Learning Supports
• Social Media's Impact on Young People
• Social Networking and Peer Relationships: The Benefits and Drawbacks of Children (9-12) Using Online Social Networking Sites
• A University Student Reflects on the Good and Bad of Social Networking use by Children and Adolescents
• Video Games as a Mental Health Intervention Tool
• What is Youth Culture? A Brief Introduction

About Social Networks
• Adolescents' loneliness and problematic smartphone use: The mediating role of upward social comparison and the moderating role of self-identity
• All that scrolling: how screen time impacts students
• Adolescents' motivation to use social network sites from a psychological needs perspective
• Adolescents' social interaction skills on social media versus in person and the correlations to well-being
• Adolescent social media use
• Be Yourself: The Relative Importance of Personal and Social Norms for Adolescents' Self-Presentation on Instagram
• The beauty and the beast of social media: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the impact of adolescents' social media experiences on their mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic
• Children's usage of media technologies and psychosocial factors
• Emotional Responses to Social Media Experiences Among Adolescents
• Ethics During Adolescence: A Social Network's Perspective
• Exploring the "Social" in Social Media: Adolescent Relatedness -- Thwarted and Supported
• Health Advisory on Social Media Use in Adolescence
• How Teens and Parents Navigate Screen Time and Device Distractions
• IMing, Text Messaging, and Adolescent Social Networks
• Mobile phones as fashion statements: evidence from student surveys in the US and Japan
• Online Health and Safety for Children and Youth
• Plugged In: How Media Attract and Affect Youth.
• Plurality in the Measurement of Social Media Use and Mental Health: An Exploratory Study Among Adolescents and Young Adults
• Potential of social media in promoting mental health in adolescents
• Potential risks of content, features, and functions: The science of how social media affects youth
• Social Media Use and Early Adolescents' Academic Achievement: Variations by Parent-Adolescent Communication and Gender
• Social Media and Youth Mental Health
• Social Media and Youth Mental Health: The U.S. Surgeon General's Advisory
• Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
• Teens and social media use: What's the impact? Tween and teen health.
• Teens, Cell Phones and Texting
• 'They are watching you do everything online': Children's perceptions of social media surveillance
• Trends in online social networking: adolescent use of MySpace over time
• US teenagers' perceptions and awareness of digital technology: a focus group approach
• Using Social Media to Promote Life Skills Among Adolescents: A Debate on Opportunities, Challenges, and Implications for Health and Education
• Youth, Learning and Social Media in K-12 Education: The State of the Field

Impact of Social Networks
• Adolescent coping and social media use moderated anxiety change during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Adolescents' Online Social Networking Following the Death of a Peer
• Associations Between Screen Time and Lower Psychological Well-Being Among Children and Adolescents: Evidence From a Population-Based Study
• Balancing opportunities and risks in teenagers' use of the internet: the role of online skills and internet self-efficacy
• The Consequences of Social Media Use Across the Transition Into Adolescence: Body Image and Physical Activity
• Cyberbullying among youngsters: profiles of bullies and victims
• Cyberbullying and its correlation to traditional bullying, gender and frequent and risky usage of internet-mediated communication tools
• Do Social Network Sites Enhance or Undermine Subjective Well-Being? A Critical Review
• Importance of Digital Communication in Adolescents' Development
• How Social Media Affects Your Teen's Mental Health: A Parent's Guide.
• Internet impropriety: Moral identity, moral disengagement, and antisocial online behavior within an early adolescent to young adult sample
• Internet Safety Gone Wild?: Sacrificing the Educational and Psychosocial Benefits of Online Social Environments
• Online Communication and Adolescent Social Ties: Who benefits more from Internet use?
• Online Communication and Adolescent Well-Being
• Perfect storms and double-edged swords: Recent advances in research on adolescent social media use and mental health.
• The Power of the Like in Adolescence: Effects of Peer Influence on Neural and Behavioral Responses to Social Media
• Problematic Social Media Use or Social Media Addiction in Pediatric Populations
• Reconceptualizing "flaming" and other problematic messages
• Saying no to Facebook: Uncovering motivations to resist or reject social media platforms
• social media and mental health
• Social media and teen anxiety
• Social media as a conduit for mental health intervention
• Social networking site use by adolescent mothers: Can social support and social capital be enhanced by online social networks? - A structured review of the literature
• Taking risky opportunities in youthful content creation: teenagers' use of social networking site for intimacy, privacy and self-expression
• Teens and social media
• Teens Social Media Habits and Experiences
• Young people's online communication and its association with mental well-being
• Young People, Online Networks, and Social Inclusion

Comparison Trap
• Social Media Social Comparison of Ability (but not Opinion) Predicts Lower Identity Clarity: Identity Processing Style as a Mediator
• Social media social comparison and identity distress at the college transition: A dual-path model
• The social media comparison trap
• The comparison trap: changing the negative to a positive
• Five steps to help students avoid the comparison trap

Social Networks and Peer Relationships
• Extending The School Grounds?-Bullying Experiences In Cyberspace
• IMing, Texting, and Adolescent Social Networks
• Internet Use and Psychological Well Being Among 10-year-old and 11-year-old Children
• Motivations for Social Media Use: Associations with Social Media Engagement and Body Satisfaction and Well-Being among Adolescents
• Online Communication and Adolescent Relationships
• Online Communication and Adolescent Social Ties: Who Benefits More From Internet Use?
• Real Use or ‘‘Real Cool’’: Adolescents Speak Out About Displayed Alcohol References on Social Networking Websites
• Young adults' motivations for following social influencers and their relationship to identification and buying behavior

Policies and Practice
• Social Media and Youth Mental Health (U.S. Surgeon General Advisory 2024)
• Cybersafety Considerations for K-12 Schools and School Districts
• Education Should Take Additional Steps to Help Protect K-12 Schools from Cyber Threats
• Family factors related to adolescent screen media use and mental health outcomes: A systematic review and recommendation for practices
• How the Every Student Succeeds Act Can Support Social and Emotional Learning
• How to Craft Useful, Student Centered Social Media Policies
• Which social media platforms matter and for whom? Examining moderators of links between adolescents' social media use and depressive symptoms

Related Agencies and Websites
• Center of Excellence on Social Media and Youth Mental Health
• Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking
• Pew Research Center:Internet and Technology
• Texas Social Media Research Institute

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