https://www.nami.org/mhstats
Authority The National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) was established in 1979 and has grown into a national foundation of America supporting both online and physical resources for those with mental disorders. NAMI.org, their website, houses a multitude of information, resources, community support, and crisis contact outlets.
Purpose NAMI of offers support, guidance, and Education materials and opportunities, a safe place for voices to be heard, and a point of contact to the outside world when users may not know where to look or even start. This particular source from their website is stats trying to get awareness and so people can understand the statistics behind mental illness.
Publication and format This was published online on the nami.org website. NAMI is an organisation based in America.
Relevance It is relevant to our research because it has a lot of statistics listed that could be mentioned in our project. Having these statistics would help to get our point across very clearly. The source is very in-depth having a bunch of statistics from farmers mental health to mental illness and the criminal justice.
Date of publication The source doesn’t state a date of being first published but does state when it was last updated which was April 2023
Documentation They did cite their sources, each statistic or piece of information is a link to the source they found it. Most of these links go to an 156 page document on samhsa.gov named “Key Substance Use and Mental Health Indicators in the United States : results from the 2020 national survey on drug use and health”. Another source cited a few times was the nimh.nih.gov – the national institute of mental health. But there are at least a hundred links to sources on the website.
https://shinni07.medium.com/the-influences-of-instagram-on-behavior-and-society-4ab6016ed8cd
Author This source was published on a media website by an author named Shinni. Her other articles on the website are all about the influence of social media on us. She is a digital media designer.
Purpose The purpose of this source is to make people aware of what is going on in a corporation such as instagram. It shows how a media platform such as instagram changes teenagers nowadays. The source explains how social media can be a positive tool to communicate and discover but also has a dark side that can affect us especially young people.
Publication and format This source of media is published online in an article format on a website called Medium.com. On their website they state that; “Ultimately, our goal is to deepen our collective understanding of the world through the power of writing.”
Relevance it’s an overview about instagram with the good and the bad things that are hidden and you wouldn’t think about. It is relevant to our research because it gives us ideas that we could write about as pros or cons of social media specifically instagram. This article talks about how social media, specifically instagram brought an increase of mental health issues and insecurities. In this article one of main issues that’s mentioned is anxiety.
Date of publication This source was published on March 8th, 2021. The source doesn’t state a date if it was updated but I don’t think it was.
Documentation This source has a lot of sources cited at the end of the article that back up all of the statistics about instagram. The documentation cited are references such as Gritters, J “how instagram takes a toll on influencers’ brains” from the guardian.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10810730.2023.2235563
Author The authors of this study are Farah Hansen, Melissa M.Foster and Hyunyi Cho. The three authors are part of the school of communication, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States. No further information about the authors is stated.
Purpose the purpose of this article is to show people the results of their study about normalising anxiety and other mental illnesses, this will inform people and help them understand and learn more about it.
Publication format online article
Relevance this is an in depth analysis and it relates to our project because it partially answers our question.
Date of publication 13th July 2023
Documentation they used like 54 references
https://mainecoastaltherapy.com/blog/social-media-and-mental-health
Author The author of this article is Savannah Davis and the article was posted to mainecoastal therapy.com. She has a degree of Arts in Psychology, Bachelor of Arts in English I’m Lafayette College She has a master of social work, clinical concentration in the university of England. She is a licensed clinical social worker in the sitter of Maine. She is a therapist who’s view is to help clients understand how and why they feel, think, and act the way they do.
Purpose The purpose of this source is to make people aware of the goods and bads of social media so that people can be mindful of their usage so it doesn’t become harmful. Sources like these can make everyone notice the things that you do when interacting with social media that become bad and by seeing these they may notice these so social media can stay a helpful place.
Publication format This article was posted online to a website called mainecoastaltherapy.com. This is a place for therapy for teens and young adults who are struggling with trauma, anxiety, and self-worth. Maine coastal therapy has in-person therapy in South Portland, Maine and online therapy for clients in Maine.
Relevance This source is an overview. It isnt as in depth as some of the other sources that have like stats whereas this seems to be more of an overview giving the good and the bad sides of social media.
Date of publication There is no date of publication listed on this source.
Documentation There is no sources or documentation cited for this source
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6336755/#:~:text=Conclusions,ensure%20this%20is%20done%20appropriately.
Author Patrick Robinson, Daniel Turk, Sagar Jilka and Matteo Cella
Expertise department of Psychology, Kings college London
Purpose to talk about how social media is creating stigma surrounding mental health
Publication and format online article
Relevance it’s an in-depth analysis that uses graphs and polls that shows how twitter reacts to and creates stigma around different types of mental health.
Date of publication August 1st 2018
Documentation They created graphs and polls using data they collected themselves.
https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Blog/June-2021/How-Social-Media-Is-Changing-the-Way-We-Think-About-Mental-Illness
Author Margot Harris
Expertise Associate Editor of Marketing and Communications at NAMI.
Purpose To talk about how social media changes the way we think about mental health
Publication and format online article
Relevance an overview about how social media helps make mental health relatable and helps give people a deeper under-understanding of everyday lives of people dealing with mental health issues.
Date of publication 25th of June 2021
Documentation no documentation
https://www.sltrib.com/amplify-utah/2021/11/30/how-social-media-has/
Author Alexie Zollinger
Expertise a journalism student at Salt Lake Community College.
Purpose to talk about the good and bad affects of speaking out about metal health on social media and how it can help people feel not so alone and more accepted or how false information can be spread about mental health.
Publication and format online article
Relevance an overview that explains that social media can be accepting and help to normalise mental health but to not believe that everything you see online is true.
Date of publication Nov. 30, 2021
Documentation they referenced studies done by The National Alliance on Mental Health and interviewed Jodi Lorenzen, a clinical mental health counselor at Salt Lake Community College. As well as Ian Eggleston, a student and Anita Riddle, a 58 yr old music major.
https://calmerry.com/blog/self-care/social-media-is-changing-the-way-we-talk-about-mental-health-for-better-and-for-worse/