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Social Dilemma Research
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Assignment
MLA Citation for Social Dilemma Movie
The Social Dilemma. Directed by Jeff Orlowski, Exposure Labs, 2020. Netflix, netflix.com/title/81254224.
Social Dilemma Guide
Opposing Viewpoints
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
Opposing Viewpoints Search Terms
Suggested First Searches:
- Mental Health and Social Media
- Democracy and Social Media
- Discrimination and Social Media
Additional Resources
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
AllSides compiles news articles from across the political spectrum and organizes them by topic for side-by-side comparison.
Gale in Context: High School
A good general purpose database. Start here for most topics.
Offsite password: empirelink or sutherland
More Suggested Searches
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
