Are Social Networking Sites Harmful

Download or read book Are Social Networking Sites Harmful? written by Noah Berlatsky and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2014-10-23 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we navigate a world in which social media data collection often seems to violate privacy? To what degree does social media encourage political reform and to what degree can it be used by authoritarian governments to suppress dissent? Social media complicates our social, cultural, and political lives in vast and often difficult-to-understand ways. Supporting critical thinking skills and text analysis, this informative anthology tackles issues related to social media. Readers are presented with a diverse spectrum of essays on social networking site issues such as privacy, addiction, personality disorders, and education.