Social Media on Mental Health in Sports

Ways that social networking can be used is in work, avocation, health/medical, games, and for purely social. Social networking can provide many benefits, one being job recruiting. Using sites like LinkedIn, recruiters have a easy way to sort out potential candidates to work for their company. Maureen Crawford-Hentz used LinkedIn looking for consumer product marketing and stumbled upon Alfred LaSpina, in which she reached out to and is now an employee of the company (Langfitt). Social networking, which comes to no surprise, has many privacy issues. Mark Zuckerbergs sister, Randi, posted a family photo which she thought was private, was retweeted by Vox Media marketing director that drew a lot of attention that Randi did not want (Greenfield). This shows the privacy issue that social networking comes with. I think in the future social networking technologies may move onto virtual reality (VR). I think this could be a possibility because the technology is getting better and maybe in the f...

    Blogs and wikis are very similar and very different in their own respects.  Similarities include, one, that both are places you can go for information or for a deeper understanding about a certain topic, and, two, both are a place where you can share knowledge (Cook).  One major difference between blogs and wikis is who it is owned by.  Blogs are generally owned by one person or have one author and others comment, on the other hand, wikis have multiple authors and is continuously created, revised, edited, and deleted (College of St. Scholastica).   Another difference, is the relevance of the information.  Tom Johnson says, "wikis are suited for information that doesn't expire in a short time, while blogs are better for short-lived news."  And once the news on the blog becomes "old" it is no long relevant it is essentially trashed, whereas a wiki will always have relevant information on a specific topic.      I think in toda...

I chose to do my project on how social media affects mental health in athletes.   Social media is new media that is here to stay, and it is only getting bigger. Especially now that there is a push to raise awareness about mental health, I think that there is a strong correlation between the two. I would like to cover the good and the bad of social media and how it affects professionals and even amateurs. I would like to focus mostly on professional sports players because we look up to them as role models. And many times, we forget they are also just human and do battle with mental illness.   Today, there are cameras everywhere and if you do not perform as expected you will receive a lot of backlash from critics and everyday people commenting on posts.   Social media is not all bad, as it is a way for people with a platform to speak their opinion.   And we have seen this in recent events, where many professional athletes have used their platform to stand up for what t...