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Annotated Bibliography In completing my TED talk regarding the topic of whether teens are addicted to their phones and the repercussions involved, I had to rely on a vast number of sources. Below is the list – in APA format – of the citations used along with a descriptive annotation about the relevance, accuracy, and quality of the sources used.

Brody, J. E. (2017, January 22). How smartphone addiction is affecting our physical and mental health. Retrieved May 04, 2019, from https://www.seattletimes.com/life/wellness/howsmartphone-addiction-is-affecting-our-physical-and-mental-health/ This article, by Jane Brody, examines smartphone addiction and its impacts on our physical and mental health. What makes this article unique is that not only does it touch upon the reason why people (including teenagers) are addicted to their phones, but it also considers the long-term effects on the body, the mind, and relationships. As she notes, “The near-universal access to digital technology, starting at ever-younger ages, is transforming modern society in ways that can have negative effects on physical and mental health, neurological development and personal relationships, not to mention safety on our roads and sidewalks.” Unlike many of the authors of the other articles, Brody acknowledges technology and the benefits that it brings to the people and our world at large. However, she believes that moderation is key when it comes to managing with our digital world. Furthermore, she mentions the physical issues involved with phone addiction. She notes that “screens are stealing time that children and adolescents should be spending on physical activity, reading, or creating and engaging directly with other children. Knowing this was very useful because I was able to tie it into my TED talk when talking about the detriments that phone addiction has on the younger generation. Like

all the other articles, Brody ends off with several ways that people can cope with phone addiction.

Homayoun, A. (2018, January 17). Is Your Child a Phone 'Addict'? Retrieved May 04, 2019, from https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/17/well/family/is-your-child-a-phone-addict.html This article by Ana Homayoun named “is your child a phone addict?” examines the issue of teenage cell phone addiction from the author’s and parent’s viewpoints. This article, like many others, begins with some stats as background information to build context and explain the proportion of teenagers who use “messages, notifications, and social media messaging” on a regular basis. Homayoun, who is a counselor and describes herself as having 15 years of experience helping teens with organizations and time management, uses her personal experience working with kids to draw the conclusion of how cell phone addiction has become a sort of FOMO, otherwise known as the fear of missing out. In other words, for many teenagers, the constant potential feedback loop from notifications and messaging creates this feeling of pressure that “if they don’t respond, they are missing out.” As the article rolls along, she changes perspective and considers the situation from the parent’s side. She proposes several solutions that parents can use to help their kids develop better tendencies, including making a plan and being a role model for their kids. In general, I found this article useful when it talked about the author’s personal experiences. Precisely, this was the only article I found that touched upon the principle of FOMO, which I believe has a huge role on all teenagers (including myself). In fact, I used this concept of FOMO during my TED talk when talking about why teenagers are so addicted and was able to relate it to how many teenagers feel they are “missing out” from their friend’s stories on Snapchat or posts on Instagram if they don’t constantly use their phone.

Hurley, K. (n.d.). Teenage Cell Phone Addiction: Are You Worried About Your Child? Retrieved May 04, 2019, from https://www.psycom.net/cell-phone-internet-addiction In this article by Katie Hurley, she analyzes teenage cell phone addiction and considers it from the perspective of the parents. She starts her article by asking “at what point does reliance on and use of cell phones and the internet turn into an addiction and what can parents do to help their kids avoid developing an addiction?” She begins her article with some valuable stats regarding teen cell phone addiction, including the percentage of teens who regularly use social media and the number of hours they spend on it per day. Next, she analyzes the symptoms of cell phone and internet addiction and how it can not only lead to poor academic performance but also health issues. As this article is written from the viewpoint of the parent, it then considers ways that parents can help their children overcome a smartphone addiction. Some of these tips were different from the other articles (and that was a reason I found this article very valuable) because it placed the reader in the shoes of the kid’s parents and provided different solutions they can adopt to mitigate on this addiction risk. The article ended off with a several key points of what parents can do if their kids refuse to stop using their phone. In particular, it talks about different types of psychological therapies that parents can send their kids to, such as cognitive behaviour therapy. Although this article was very useful as it had a different viewpoint to it, I did not rely on it much as most of the tips were from the parent’s perspective. Given that my TED talk was presented to a younger audience, many of the points mentioned in this article were not meaningful. However, I must say this article did help me with regards to the solutions that it provided to cope with phone addiction and I did use that during my presentation.

Iqbal, N. (2015, July 14). Dead-battery anxiety? Learn to live without your phone. Retrieved May 04, 2019, from https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jul/14/mobilephone-battery-anxiety This article, by Nosheen Iqbal, examines a type of phone disorder, which she calls “dead-battery anxiety” that has become common in the modern era. This disorder involves the anxiety and apprehension that an individual experiences when his/her phone runs out of battery or coverage. In verifying her claims, Iqbal uses a variety of detailed examples from around the world that shows the extremes that people go when experiencing such order. In one particular instance, she notes a “19-year old male who jumped on a Broadway stage and tried to jam his phone in a prop outlet because his phone was on 5% and girls were calling him all day.” Similarly, in another instance, she notes a man in England who was arrested for extracting electricity on a London train and refused to unplug his iPhone from a socket on the London Overground. Iqbal concludes her article by providing tips - especially for the younger generation – to cope with this disorder, including having backup plans (buying a portable charger) and liberating yourself from your phone at times to allow your brain to rest. All in all, I found this source very useful because the article used examples of personal experiences of people around the world that phone addiction is real and can have severe consequences for the user. I used a number of these examples throughout my presentation to grasp the attention of the audience and enlighten them about the extremes that people go to in order to obtain access to their phones.

Oppong, T. (2017, May 30). For a More Creative Brain, Take Breaks. Retrieved May 04, 2019, from https://www.inc.com/thomas-oppong/for-a-more-creative-brain-take-breaks.html This article, by Thomas Oppong, takes a different stance on the topic of phone addiction. Instead of directly discussing the impacts of phone addiction on the younger generation, it examines how our brain needs “downtime to remain active and generate its most innovative ideas.” Throughout the article, Oppong touches upon the benefits of allowing our brain to rest, such as taking regular breaks from technology and most certainly, our phones. What makes this article really interesting is that the author uses science to validate his conclusions. For example, he mentions that our brains take on a “diffuse” mode when we are relaxed and take a mental break from our surroundings. He then concludes that as per studies, the activity in many areas of our brain increases while we let our minds wander. That is, our brains solve the most difficult problems when it’s at rest. He then provides advice on what people should do to obtain the best results from their brain. Since I knew the topic that Oppong covered in this article closely related to the idea of phone addiction, I was able to use some parts of the article in drawing my conclusion during the presentation. In particular, during my presentation, I mentioned that in order for people to store information from their short-term to long-term memories, they must first let their brains rest and that begins with taking moderation in their phone usage.

Rosen, L. D., Cheever, N. A., & Carrier, L. M. (2013). IDisorder: Understanding our obsession with technology and overcoming its hold on us. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. iDisorder, a book by Larry Rosen, dedicates an entire novel to talking about technology and its impacts on people of all age groups. In this book, Rosen touches upon a vast amount of statistics relating to media and technology usage (including phone) and makes astounding

conclusions regarding the signs and symptoms of psychological disorder, such as stress, sleeplessness, and anxiety. In fact, Rosen provides different explanations for why many people suffer from this technological disorder, in which he calls “iDisorder.” Some explanations include peer pressure, the fear of missing out, communication with friends and family, and pleasure. Rosen, like many of the authors in the sources cited, believes in moderation when it comes to technology and phone usage. He believes that technology, including our smartphones, have come a long way to allow us to innovate and create ideas that were unimaginable decades ago. However, he believes that constant usage of phone causes distraction, especially amongst the younger generation, and this can in turn lead to health issues and poor academic performance. Consequently, in the last couple chapters, Rosen offers various strategies to readers to help them overcome the disorder that comes when making use of all that technology offers. In general, I found this book to be very meaningful for my presentation because it provided a detailed analysis of phone addiction, which I then used throughout my presentation. It also offered great strategies to cope with this disorder, such as educating oneself about its impacts, which I also used during the conclusion of my talk.

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https://www.psychguides.com/behavioral-disorders/cell-phone-addiction/teens/ This report, by PsychGuides, an American Addiction Centers Resource is more informational. It discusses everything from the effects of teen smartphone addiction to some stats on teen and social media use to looking at various treatments that can be applied to reduce the risk of such addiction. Given that this article was more factual (and less personal), I did not rely on it as much during my presentation. However, I did use this website more to confirm the stats and

information that I had obtained from the other websites to ensure they were accurate. All the stats and data from the other sources matched with this.

Tiku, N. (2018, August 22). Even Teens Worry That Teens Are Addicted to Their Phones. Retrieved May 04, 2019, from https://www.wired.com/story/even-teens-worry-that-teensare-addicted-to-their-phones/ This article, by Nitasha Tiku, looks at the notion of phone addiction from the perspective of the actual teenagers themselves. Even though most of the sources considered the viewpoints of the parents and that of the author, this article is mainly written from the viewpoint of the teenagers. As the article mentions, 52% of US teens aged 13-17 years of age have taken steps to cut back on their phone use. However, their efforts to cut back have not necessarily made them become happier. In fact, 56% of the teens have stated that being away from their phones have led them to feelings of anxiety, sadness, or loneliness. Moreover, the article mentions that it’s not all teenagers’ fault when it comes to phone addiction. Tiku believes that managers of tech platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, are making it harder to put down one’s device by including new features regularly on their device (features such as Snap Maps, Stories, Filters). I found this article to be valuable especially since it talked from the viewpoint of the teenagers. Majority of the research that this article cited were also based on the behaviour of the actual teenagers as opposed to their parents. I did use this article during my presentation when I discussed the question of what makes teenagers addicted to their phones. Although I do believe that teenagers have a great control over themselves with regards to their tech usage, I do also agree with the author of this article in that the social media companies are adopting new features constantly that makes it harder for users to let go of their phones.

Twenge, J. M. (2017). IGEN: Why todays super-connected kids are growing up less rebellious, more tolerant, less happy and completed unprepared for adulthood and what that means for the rest of us. New York: Atria Books. This book, by Jean Twenge, puts the reader through today’s generation of children, born in the mid-1990s and later, and considers how they are different from their predecessors. In doing so, Twenge looks at how technology, social media, and texting has replaced other traditional activities (such as face-to-face interaction) and as such has led the new generation to spend less time with their friends in person. In this book, Twenge correlates higher usage of phone with such symptoms as anxiety, loneliness, and depression. Jean believes that many teenagers utilize such platforms because of peer pressure and the social stigma attached to not using them. She then concludes that balance is important when it comes to using technology and our phones. She believes that although technology can help us with a wide range of tasks (school, research, innovation), it also has a considerable number of disadvantages that we ought to take into consideration. This book was useful for my presentation because it allowed me to understand how this generation is different from their predecessors with regards to attitude and communication behaviour. I was then able to use this comparison during my talk to grasp the audience’s attention and predict where the future generation was going (more towards technology and less towards in-person interaction).

Why are kids addicted to their phones? - Kidslox blog. (2018, June 14). Retrieved May 04, 2019, from https://kidslox.com/blog/kids-addicted-phones/ This article, like a few others in this list, examines the reasons why kids are addicted to their phones, from the viewpoint of the parent. What makes this article different, however, is that it considers more reasons of why kids could be addicted to their phones than the previously

mentioned articles. In particular, this article believes that pleasure, the need to produce and socialize, recognition by the public, and fear of missing out are some of the important reasons why kids become addicted to their phones. Aside from the reasons, the article mentions the symptoms of addiction and ways parents can help their child get away from it. I liked this article because it gave more reasons for phone addiction. Therefore, I used it as a complement with the other articles to provide a comprehensive view of phone addiction during my TED talk....