> Identify a list of where your primary sources could come from - articles, books, magazines, interviews, experts etc...> Identify a place where you might send a survey / conduct an interview.> Then actually conduct this research and add all primary questions / sources to this section of the Prezi. You will need to convince the Newsround editor you have been thorough. You will have to use appropriate interviewees for this piece and conduct a useful survey. You will have to justify your choices later.

> Identify a list of where your secondary sources could come from - articles, books, magazines, interviews, experts etc...> Conduct this research and add all secondary sources to this section of the Prezi.> You will need to state all the secondary evidence you have found on this part of the Prezi in detail. You will need to convince the Newsround editor you have been thorough.

Where the Primary Sources could come from…- Interviews (hopefully with experts in a field close to what my story is about)- Written accounts or quotes in articles or other peoples findings- Surveys- Videos of people sharing their thoughts- Pieces of text (written acccounts) from people in books/magazines

Ideas of where to conduct surveys/interviewsInterviews- There are a number of psychology or sociology teachers at my sixth form who I could interview- Could interview student who might be battling mental health or just find themselves addicted to their

phones- Could interview any teachers who are parents and how they handle social media use- Could interview my own parents about their experiences

Surveys- Surveys from students at the sixth form- Surveys from specific people battling mental health- Surveys from parents

1. What are your views on teenagers using social media and do you think it affects their mental health in later life? Why will it affect them? How? In what aspect of life?

2. According to a recent poll, 22% of teenagers log onto their favourite social media site more than 10 times a day, how do you think that is affecting their life?

3. Why do you think teenagers feel the need to log onto social media? Will this affect them mentally in the future? Do you think there should be some sort of limit to how long you should spend on these sites?

4. Where do you see social media going in the future, do you think it will get worse and teenagers mental health with it?

5. Who, in your opinion, is most affected by social media's grasp?6. When, in your opinion, do most people first experience social media? Do you think the age is

too young? Should there be classes specifically teaching teenagers about the dangers of social media?

Conducting the research for the Primary Sources

I have organised to meet with a psychology teacher at Netherhall Sixth Form who agreed to answer some questions on how using Social Media affects teenager's mental health and their future. I chose a psychology teacher because he studies a lot about mental health and why certain things happen as they do in our brain. These are the question I am going to be asking, I have put in some ‘elaborate on this’ questions next to the main question to try to get as much detail as possible.

Why have I decided on these specific questions? - What do I want from them?To find out about Mr Watkins views on the matter and establish a good knowledge base as to why some of these negative effects occur on social media. I thin the questions pose some interesting angles on the subject where his opinion will be interesting because he has a wider knowledge on mental health and where things stem from.

The interview is directly under this Slideshare file or you can watch it here: https://youtu.be/Tji3-2PTWjg

I think the interview went extremely well, Mr Watkins gave some really insightful and interesting points and answers to the questions that are going to fit well into the video segment in the Newsroundstory.

My next Primary source is this paragraph from this article on The Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/social-media-mental-health-teenagers-government-pshe-lessons

I think this paragraph is good because it gives someone's direct account of a time when they didn’t have a phone and them, through that, realising how much they depend on it. They talk about the feeling of ‘Fomo’ which means ‘fear of missing out’ and I think is a really strange concept that could link to anxiety about always having to stay with the times and be at every party to know what’s going on.

For my third primary source I interviewed a 16 year old student from Netherhall Sixth Form called Maria and took a transcript of the interview

For this interview/questionnaire/survey I really just wanted a basic account of an average 16 yr olds relationship with social media. This would give me a good starting point as to whether this is a minority who are falling victim to social medias claws or whether there is actually a large amount of people who just can’t stop them selves but check up on a picture to see how its doing or always drop everything to never miss a text in the group chat.

Where the Secondary Sources could come from…- Articles (information, any acoounts from different people about what people said- Research done by lots of poeple – maybe get the info from a book or piece of text online- Interviews with maybe mothers, I could ask questions like ‘does your daughter/son ever get very stressed

about how they appear online’ might be nice getting a different persepective

Conducting the research for the Secondary SourcesMy first secondary source is this article written by Tech Times and it states how depression and anxiety can be caused by social media. http://www.techtimes.com/articles/84001/20150912/social-media-pressure-can-cause-depression-and-anxiety-in-teens.htm

Another secondary source is an article in the Guardian that which talks about how social media and staying up at night is causing anxiety in teenagers. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/sep/16/social-media-mental-health-teenagers-government-pshe-lessons

I found both of these articles incredibly interesting and mind boggling, the articles gave some of the reasons why people get stressed or anxious on social media which will really add to the story and broaden my knowledge that I can maybe put into it.

These were sources I didn’t know if I am going to use, one is just a little snippet from an article and the other is a video that I found interesting on the topic of

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/127/4/800Although I'll only be discussing this section of the article.

Video following three friends talking about ‘likes anxiety’ and the pressure to be liked on social media https://youtu.be/ewc3hxW9tFg