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The Social Dilemma. Directed by Jeff Orlowski, Exposure Labs, 2020. Netflix, netflix.com/title/81254224. 

Social Dilemma Movie Website

Opposing Viewpoints features VIEWPOINT essays (opinionated pieces) on a large number of controversial topics, along with news items, reference articles, media and much more.

Offsite password: empirelink or sutherland

Suggested First Searches:

• Mental Health and Social Media
• Democracy and Social Media
• Discrimination and Social Media

Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth (NY Times)

How Social Media Divides Us (CNN)

On Election Day, Facebook and Twitter Did Better by Making Their Products Worse (NY Times)

The Second Act of Social-Media Activism (New Yorker)

What if Instead of Calling People Out, We Called Them In? (NY Times)

Our Brains Are No Match for Our Technology (NY Times)

The Dark Psychology of Social Networks (The Atlantic)

Free Speech Is Not the Same As Free Reach (Wired)

Want to Work for Google? You Already Do (TED Talk)

AllSides compiles news articles from across the political spectrum and organizes them by topic for side-by-side comparison.

A good general purpose database.  Start here for most topics.

Offsite password: empirelink or sutherland

Some additional suggested search terms:

• Girls Mental Health and Social Media
• Suicide and Social Media
• Elections and Social Media
• Polarization and Social Media
• Discrimination and Social Media
• Racism and Social Media

Suggested strategies:

• Substitute specific platforms for the words Social Media in above searches (ex. Girls Mental Health and Instagram)
• Look to the right of a good article for links to related articles
• Try googling the author of a good article - they may have written others