The scholarly article I chose to write about that's related to my inquiry is called "Trends in online social networking: adolescent use of MySpace over time" written by Justin W. Patchin and Sameer Hinduja.This article is related to internet safety.
I came to the conclusion that this article was scholarly through a number of reasons. First off the article is written by professors from different Universities. Second, the purpose of the article was clear in evaluating previous research in some meaningful way. Third, it includes an abstract along with charts and graphs that represent data. Fourth, It's a pretty lengthy article that also includes in-text citations. Finally the article includes a pretty lengthy works cited list.
The article is mainly concerned with the amount of information available to others in Myspace For example, In 2006, the authors decided to do a research analysis of about 2432 randomly sampled adolescent Myspace users profiles to determine what types of information they were putting up. In conclusion of the study they found that most of the adolescents were making good choices of the type of information they would share online. They also made a follow up study to see if anything had changed within one year. Pathcin and Hinduja came to the conclusion that the "youth were expressing more discretion in posting personal information on Myspace and more youth are limiting access to their profile".
Overall, I believe this article does successfully convey a successful rhetorical message to the audience and provides the information in depth.
The article definitely appears to be scholarly, and it certainly makes an interesting argument that is contrary to what many parents believe - young people are exercising some discretion when posting information online.
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