Ethnography Research Sources

I have come to the conclusion that my fruitful questions is, “What is the impact of phone usage and social media on interpersonal relationships?” In order to research this topic I intend to look at a variety of different sources as well as conduct investigations of my own.

1. Faulty Connection: Relationships in the Digital Era | Jocelyn Shen | TEDxPhillipsAcademyAndover

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUeg-BrkL4g

This TED talk is very interesting and delves into the main point of my fruitful question as well as proves my assumptions about social media’s effects on relationships

2. The Greater Good Science Center published an article: What is Your Phone Doing to Your Relationships?

https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/what_is_your_phone_doing_to_your_relationships

3. The Negative Effects Social Media Can Have On Relationships

https://studybreaks.com/culture/negative-effects-social-media-can-relationships/

4. How your Smart Phone is ruining your relationship

http://time.com/4311202/smartphone-relationship-cell-phone/

5. The Phones We Love Too Much

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/well/mind/the-phones-we-love-too-much.html

The articles above provide me with different perspectives on the topic which I feel will allow for me to develop my research path and allow for me to develop more significant questions on my topic. I know some are bias but I feel it will help me to develop more questions.

4. Survey Monkey

I plan to create a survey to give to a number of close friends and hopefully some strangers as well to have a good pool of people. I haven’t developed my questions yet but I plan to do that after I delve into these different sources over break. I think the questions will be along the lines of: “Have you been in a long distance relationship?” “If so, how often were you communicating? More through phone calls/text?” questions like that