The Psychological Effects of Mass Media and Social-Media
The Psychological Effects of Mass Media and Social-Media Abstract The purpose of this study was to explore an individual’s emotional response in direct reflection of social-media usage (SMU), a growing online environment that is approximated to have 4.48 billion users worldwide according to the University of Maine’s 2021 Social Media Statistics (University of Maine, 2022). By conducting a observational experiment where a small sample size of 20 individuals were asked to participate in engaging with their social media platforms for thirty minutes to monitor each individual’s emotional responses from the mass media effects of social media, this research analyzes positive and negative emotional reactions, as well as considers possible factors to improve the effects of social media. The type of sampling that will be used for the purposes of this study is systematic sampling, a selection of elements from an ordered sampling frame. This research considers the Uses and Grat