Week 3: Finding books

The book I chose this week was published by the MacArthur Foundation just a few months ago. The book is titled, Family and Digital Media. I learned a bit more about searching the Leatherby Libraries this week, but still find it a frustrating source to use. As I was researching this week I was reminded of the Google play store on my phone. I searched the play store and found the book I chose this week and downloaded it to my phone. This was after searching Leatherby Libraries and Google and coming up with nothing. A source I was introduced to this week after researching on my own was Google Scholar. I found this through some of my classmates discussion board posts. My research this week lead me to more of a specific area to focus on with my topic. My topic is, negative effects of social media. I realized that this was a broad area and I was able to narrow it down by relating it to kids and adolescents. I hope to learn a lot about what is effecting them about social media, and how. Since I am pursuing a career in marriage and family therapy, I feel this knowledge will be helpful to me. I also will soon have three adolescents on my hands at home and this will also help me in my own parenting. Hopefully I'll be prepared when I get there.