Assignment: Teach back-Facebook

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

2. Demonstrate appropriate academic research and writing techniques.

Overview

  • This week we read “How Facebook Makes Us Unhappy,” by Maria Konnikova.
  • This article was published by The New Yorker in September 2013; while that is not especially long ago, it is also not especially recent.

Expectations and Deliverables

Your job is to find a more recent article from one of the search techniques that you learned about in this week’s lecture.

  •  Be sure to find an article that relates to the impact that social media has on human beings
  •  Write a one-paragraph summary of the article that includes a direct quote.
  •  Write a second paragraph where you respond to the ideas presented in the article.
  •  Be sure to include the APA citation for the article.