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COM 217: Argumentation & Debate (Bruner): Starting Points for Fall 2024

A wide variety of resources to assist with your upcoming assignments

Fall 2024 Topics

1) Social media effects on youth (e.g., good and bad "influencers")

2) Internet porn regulations in the U.S.

3) Racial disparities in judicial sentencing

4) Book bans in Florida

Social media effects on youth (e.g., good and bad "influencers")

Library Workshop Follow-Up Resources

Social Media, Thin-Ideal, Body Dissatisfaction and Disordered Eating Attitudes: An Exploratory Analysis
Mounting Research Documents the Harmful Effects of Social Media Use on Mental Health, Including Body Image and Development of Eating Disorders
Transparency is essential for effective social media regulation
You'll Need a College Education to Read the Terms of Service for These Social Media Sites
Impact and engagement of sport & fitness influencers: A challenge for health education media literacy
Social Media Use and Youth Mental Health (Psychology Today)
I’m a psychologist. Here are 5 things teens should never do on social media
The Use of Social Media in Children and Adolescents: Scoping Review on the Potential Risks
IMPACT OF MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER ON YOUTH’S BEHAVIOR

Internet porn regulations in the U.S.

Library Workshop Follow-Up Resources

A Simple Law Is Doing the Impossible. It’s Making the Online Porn Industry Retreat.

Demeri, D. J. (2019). Who needs legislators? discrimination against sex workers is sex discrimination under title vii. Rutgers University Law Review, 72(1), 247-[ii].

Racial disparities in judicial sentencing

Library Workshop Follow-Up Resources

**Still searching for Griffis/Mississippi--but no resources yet

Book bans in Florida

Library Workshop Follow-Up Resources

Riggan, Blythe. (2023). The road to hell is paved with good intentions: how pico's focus on the intent behind book bans has failed public school students. First Amendment Law Review, 22(1), 54-82.

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