Week 10 Research Progress

In the past week, I looked into my research field in a broader scale . Instead of focusing on social fitness apps, I changed it to social media in general, also change the impact on young people’s work out activates to impact on young people’s physical health.  I re-framed my research question to How social media affects young people’s physical health? I was hoping the existing researches could show the positive co-relation between social media use and health. However, a lot of research brought up the negative consequence on health of using social media.

To be brief, these researches approach the relationship between social media use and people’s health from the following angles.  

·         Social media reduces level of face to face contact, which can increase the risk of serious of health problem such as cancer, stokes. Etc. 

·         Social media traps people in self-criticism.

·         Social media doesn’t hold the authority; it may misguide people by wrong health information.

·         Long hours of using social media has negative impact of sedentary behaviors on physical health.

·         Blue light exposure affects sleep quality.
(http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1149207/How-using-Facebook-raise-risk-cancer.html)

(http://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2683&context=honorstheses1990-2015 -  Social support)              

(http://greatist.com/health/social-media-affects-fitness)

Different approaches provide me a more comprehensive view on this issue and helped me outline the structure of my research. I am still working on finishing up my survey, hope it can be sent out by this weekend.