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Annotated Bibliography

Question : Do online social networks present significant dangers to teens, how can we measure them and does the media accurately represent those risks?

Subject: Social Networking & Teens

Key terms: social network, online communication, Internet, my space, face book, teens, young adults, adolescence,

1. Baghdad Burning. New York, NY: Feminist Press at the City University of New York ,

2005.

Baghdad Burning is a true life account of a young woman in her twenties who goes through the war & events every day of her life and she types it into a blog. She describes her experiences in from bombings to the tragic truth. As much as everyone in the U.S. wants to pull out of the war, so does Riverbend. She puts in her own thoughts and feelings about the war, and is very educated about the subject. Some days, she will go days with out writing and then she put update us. You always get a little nervous thinking that her house might have got bombed. Her experiences help us over in the U.S. recognize what innocent people go through over there and our innocent troops are going through too. Not only does she know a lot about the United States and the people, she informs of what the Iraqi people go through on a regular day basis, how they do not have jobs and what their lives our like. Another thing this blog/book informs us of is different historical information like what has happened in Iraq before the invasion of the war in 2003. Who would have ever though that over in Iraq someone would just start a blog about what is actually happening in the war and what its like their every day? I sure didn’t but I am glad she did.