1. Working title: Online Resources Versus Printed books
2. Research questions
What is social media? How can the virtual world of the internet substitute the real world? How does the invention of smart phone contribute to the extra usage of social media? Why is social media making people more isolated? How does the internet change the way people live? If social media are used to connect people regardless of the distance, why are they considered a factor of making people farther than they really are? Why is the opinion of psychoanalysis about the problem? How can the usage of social media be considered a sign of modernity and urbanism? Who is to blame for the extra usage of social media, the users or the producers of the technology? How does the issue of the extra usage of social media appear in Kuwait?
3. Working thesis
Although printed books are the cornerstone for students and scholars, the use of online resources become reliable alternative and take the place of prints in academic researches so that it is better than printed resources.
4. Background
Social media become a part of people's life nowadays. Whenever you go, you will find people using their mobile phones to check their social media accounts and see what other friends wrote or even read about news or finance. Social media are taking the role of other media like newspapers or magazines as the internet makes almost everything available on mobile phones, tablets and laptops. What makes the usage of social media in Kuwait so easy is the cheap internet charge service and also the good wealth of people who are able to buy tools like smartphones and such inventions and also because of the instalments system which makes it easy for everybody to buy and use the technology. However, at the same time, people are using social media in a very bad way that they neglect others in the same place. One more point is that the usage of social media is changing the way we live and think.
5. Justification of topic
Too many researches and studies enriched with practical and statistical charts and tables have been done to study the effect of using social media on people. The matter is not merely about studying the usage of social media from a personal perspective. It rather exceeds this to study the overall effect on society and on relations between individuals as well. That is why writing about the effects of social media and researching about it makes it crucial as the entire world is transforming into a more electric automated world.
6. Methodology
The main resources to resort to will be taken from AUK online library JSTOR and EBESCO. Other resources will be taken from The Atlantic to make the research more reliable. The keywords of the essay are: social media, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Instagram. The information taken from the above-mentioned resources are going to be analyzed and studied, then, they will be contributed to the issue in Kuwait. After doing the research I hope I will be able to understand two things: the effect of social media on both individuals and societies, and the psychoanalysis of the personality of the users. One more thing I hope to write about in the future is the basics that the producers of social media follow to be able to gain such popularity. Moreover, I hope to do another relative research about the possibility of creating a new social media that can compete with the existing ones like Facebook and Twitter.