Haylee Palmer

Professor Gonzalez

ENC 1102

2/29/2024

Annotated Bibliography

Todd, C. L. (2021, November 10). Bella Hadid shares tearful photos of her mental health “roller

coaster.” SELF.

https://www.self.com/story/bella-hadid-mental-health-struggles-instagram

This article is about a very famous model, Bella Hadid, who shares her story of the reality

of her life that isn’t ever portrayed on social media. In Hadid’s post, she shared photos of her

upset and crying to show people who look up to her that that’s the reality of her nightly routines

and they are not always perfect like they seem to be on social media. The article discusses how

Bella Hadid mentioned the mental health issues that she struggles with, because no one would

know that she struggled with anxiety and depression because news outlets and social media only

show the side of her strutting down a runway looking beautiful or Youtube channels posting

Hadid’s “everyday night time routine,” only showing the positive and aesthetic parts of it. The

article says that Will Smith inspired her to openly talk about her mental health because Smith

opening up about his difficulties made Hadid feel less alone, and she wanted to do the same for

her following.

I chose this article to include in my research paper because it shows how even celebrities

are aware of how daunting social media and its unrealistic reality can affect people. This article

gives a different but useful perspective to my research because it shows the point of view of a

celebrity, and how they deal and see the unrealistic expectations people perceive from social
media. It should become more normalized for celebrities that have millions of people looking up

to them, be aware that they are just as human as anyone else and they go through the same

emotions any other person would. My research paper is about how the unrealistic expectations of

life are portrayed on social media, and this article shows that it’s okay to be vulnerable online

and talk about the issues that can be uncomfortable to show or admit to.

Competiello, Sarah K, et al. “The Power of Social Media: Stigmatizing Content Affects

Perceptions of Mental Health Care.” Social Media and Society, vol. 9, no. 4, 1 Oct. 2023,

https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231207847.

In the article The Power of Social Media: Stigmatizing Content Affects Perceptions of

Mental Health Care written by Sarah K. Competiello, George Y. Bizer, and D. Catherine

Walker, it talks about the research behind how social media can affect the mental health of its

users. In this research, a study was conducted where 176 people were shown either a tweet that

humorizes mental health issues or a tweet that was innocuous. After the selected people viewed a

specific type of tweet, they had to complete a questionnaire right after, reflecting on how the

tweet made them feel, their thoughts on it, if they found it interesting, etc. the results show that

the women who participated in the study had a higher reaction and feelings towards the

stigmatized tweet, rather than the women who viewed the control tweets. After the article

discusses the results of the study, it includes how many people with mental health issues due to

social media don’t speak out for treatment. The research also shows that women have more

effects from social media posts than men due, which goes with my research that the “get ready

with me” or “day in my life” videos create an unrealistic reality that women viewers think they
need to live up to, even though that’s not the case and it’s hard for women to see past the reality

behind what's posted on social media.

I selected this source for my research paper because it is a clear and supported research

study that directly shows how social media can affect the mental health of the people who

heavily use it. It shows that a simple tweet that takes 2 seconds to type out, can severely affect

someone and the way they view themselves or other people. I like how this article includes the

implications of the study so that the readers knows what else went into the research that could

have altered the results.

Valkenburg, Patti M., and Jessica Taylor Piotrowski. Plugged In: How Media Attract and Affect

Youth. JSTOR, Yale University Press, 2017,

www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1n2tvjd.16?searchText=social+media+affects+mental+health&s

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-default%3A962a04afeaadecdf1f4da30ca6e13ffa&seq=25. Accessed 29 Feb. 2024.

The article, Plugged In: How Media Attract and Affect Youth written by Valkenburg,

Patti M, and Jessica Piotrowski discussed how social media affects the mental health of young

people and how it has changed over time. The book includes statistics about how many people

receive negative feedback and interactions on social media, which is drastically more than the

amount of people who receive positive feedback. The article concludes that one of the only ways

to consistently have a positive experience with social media is if you keep your followers and

follow your close friends, which close to no one does. In the section of the article talking about

self awareness, it touches on how some individuals base their confidence on how other people
perceive them, which is a huge issue considering that earlier on in the article they said that over

half of the feedback people receive on their social media profiles is negative comments. It is

hypothesized that teens who have more public self-awareness use social media at a higher rate,

because they enjoy interacting with those who give feedback or comment on their profiles. This

can make it harder for more introverted people who use social media more to view what others

post rather than posting what’s going on in their life because it will seem like their life isn’t as

good or they aren’t as pretty as the people who use social media extensively. However, that is

not the case because people who use social media a lot only post the highlights of their life which

is easily overlooked by its viewers because that is not something we automatically think to

consider.

I chose to use this source for my research paper because it includes a lot of different

perspectives on social media and more aspects that can contribute to how social media causes

mental health issues in teens by making it seem like people’s life is more perfect than it is in

reality. For my research paper, I am going to be focusing on the chapter titled Self-Esteem, Self

Awareness because that closely relates to the purpose of my research. This article can benefit my

research because it looks at social media from many different angles and talks about how people

can use it in different ways.