Credibility of Sources

The New York Times article written by Laura M. Holson, " Social Media's Vampires: They Text by Night, Vamping Teenagers Are Up All Night Texting" brings to light the raising concern of teenagers use of social media. Their constant need to be online in order to be "one of the cool kids" using #vamping or #notsleepingatall. Within the article there are four sources: 1. A poll on Sleep in the Modern Family by the National Sleep Foundation, that surveyed care givers with a child aged 6-17 years living in their household to ask about sleep practices and beliefs in the modern family.  This is a source from a credible organization and moderated by a number of researches from Duke University, University of Chicago, and George Washington University. 2. The article written by Temitayo Fagbenle, a rookie reporter for WNYC is written using Firsthand Accounts. This article is published on an organizations website operated by a non-profit that accepts donations on its homepage. 3. Donah Boyd, a scholar and senior researcher @ Microsoft Research is the author of "It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens". She is the Expert Source and Analyst offering two reasons for the phenomenon, teenagers desire to connect and this is the way teenagers are reacting to overbooked schedules. 4. Another firsthand witness is Owen, a 15 year-old that admits he uses social media as an outlet at night to become lost in his hobbies. 

After reading the article and looking through the sources, I find the article to be credible as a result of the research and researchers that contributed to the story. If this article would have came up as unreliable it could have had the potential to be reckless news spread through mass media such as Facebook , Twitter, and Blogs, especially if the topic was related to national security for instance. Each author must take on the responsibility of what they right and fully vet their sources to be reliable and the facts accurate. 

Holson, L. M. (2014). Social Media's Vampires: They Text by Night, Vamping Teenagers are Up All Night Texting. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/06/fashion/vamping-teenagers-are-up-all-night-texting.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&version=LargeMediaHeadlineSum&module=photo-spot-region&region=photo-spot&WT.nav=photo-spot&_r=0

Montecino, V. (1998). "Criteria to Evaluate the Credibility of WWW Resources." http://mason.gmu.edu/~montecin/web-eval-sites.htm