Critical Lens Social Media

As much as social media has managed to ruin our society, it plays a positive role for the public as well. Social media allowed people to use their networks as a form of reaching out to old friends and family across the world. With America being known as the melting pot of the world, our society has several people with family on the other side of the Earth. With social media in effect, this permits people to stay in touch with long lost loved ones and keep ties tight. Not only has it sanctioned friends and family to keep in touches but has granted people to relocate birth parents and unknown family members as well. Yes, social media has failed our society greatly but there is always a rainbow somewhere after a rainy day. Social media can play a positive role by bringing people back together.

    First, Social media can be very informative with what is going on with the news. I know personally when I wake up the first thing I do is check my Instagram. One morning when I logged on, I saw all the celebrities I was following saying prayers for Las Vegas. There was a shooting in Las Vegas that left 59 victims dead and many others injured. I check apps such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to get my news for the day and stay up to date on what is going on around me. This is a great of example of why I think social media can be used in a positive way also. By celebrities posting pictures saying prayers for Las Vegas this makes people curious of what happen, which then makes them want to google the incident. Since these celebrities use

Social media marketing is relatively new to the ?integrated marketing communications systems of several public and private businesses.? (Mercadal, 2013, para. 2) Social media is used by almost sixty-six percent of American adults. (Lanham, 2016) Integrated marketing communications try to connect companies and other organizations with their target audience. (Mercadal, 2013) Therefore, social media marketing strategically looks at demographics of the audiences in each social media platform and use the platforms that match the audience who would be interested in products or services sold. (Smith,

It's allows people to express who they are. Not everyone can express themselves, social media allows a person to be themselves in addition, social media allows people to have more privilege to convey who they are. Social media makes it easier to demonstrate who the real are.

There are countless ads on social media promoting many diverse products and events making it hard to compete for attention and have people single out our ad specifically. Although there is a very large percentage of the population that uses technology social media, there is also a percentage that does not, this is a disadvantage of using social media to promote an event. Even if some people do have social media they may not take the time to look at an advertisement or sponsored page. There is no way to guarantee that people will take the time to read an ad, unlike if we were to use a commercial on television which people cannot skim past or skip

In today’s day and age, social media is popular more than ever. Now, just by clicking the “tweet” button, you can expose yourself and what you put out there for anyone throughout the whole world to see. Twitter, Instagram, etc have taken over the world, with millions and millions of users that range from super young to super old. Personally, I have three different platforms of social media. These include twitter, instagram and snapchat. I am interested to evaluate how I use it versus how I consider myself to be in real life and on a day to day basis. I believe the way that I represent myself on social media has some similarities and differences between my actual self on a day to day basis.

It allows for questioning LGBTQ youth to be able to find countless and countless of information regarding their sexual identity, they are able to use social media to find and make close friends and able to make a difference in lives of other LGBTQ that could use the support. Social media, like a double edged sword, can be helpful in one way but dangerous in the next. All depends on the intent of the person handling

People can use social media as a positive source to stay connected with different types of information. First, social news media can alert people when bad weather is approaching and to keep people informed as to what’s going on around the world. For example, when hurricane Matthew was coming people were informed ahead a time to be prepared for the bad weather that was approaching. People, including myself were able to stay on alert by the news channel and know ahead of time to what was coming. Watching the news can be a positive thing to know what’s going on in a person’s town or community. People are always able to stay inform of everything that was going on with hurricane Matthew and stay connected with all the new development. Second, another

Social media has many positive effects on our society. Facebook and Twitter can be one prime example of a positive affect on social media. Through Facebook we can generally use it to keep our family and friends posted on how we are doing. For example I remember when Facebook became so popular during the time of Hurricane Katrina. During that time of devastation we were not able to communicate through telephone services, cell phone service, and beepers because all communication services were down. And at that time if you had access to a computer with Internet services we were able to communicate, post pictures and videos of each other by using the Facebook website. This is one of the positive examples of social

Being able to obtain the most up to date news is great for an individual to stay tune with world events. Also, being able to share ideas and guidance helps bring people together and strengthen societal relations. On the other hand, social media is a catalyst to spread negativity, especial in regards to racism and hate. People can simply hide behind their phone or computer and express their views without consequences at times. If people especially younger individuals are exposed to “new racism”, then it will continue to spread in America; that is a huge downside of social media. Then we go back to the “positive” side of social media and that is that racism in America is exposed and brought to light. Again bringing these issues to light helps society face these controversial issues, so we can find solutions. I feel like we do need social media to help bring issues to light but again the negativity that comes along with it is a

Recently, people are now discussing how social media changes our life, whether it is good or bad. Some of them think that social media is a kind of fad because of its rapid development. Others think that it is really useful and makes our life easier than before.

The rates of sexually transmitted Infections (STIs) are rising among youth in the US especially in Philadelphia (have high level of poverty and public health system is fragmented) where the rate of STIs is five times higher than the youth in the rest of the US to be diagnosed with STIs. The target population in this campaign is adolescent and youth (ages 13-24) of Philadelphia, which overall represent 25% of newly diagnosed HIV cases and almost all of them are sexually transmitted whereas no subgroups were mentioned in the campaign. So, this campaign is started in 2012 to raise the awareness among the youth regarding their knowledge and testing behaviors for Sexually Transmitted diseases (STDs) such as chlamydia, HIV, gonorrhea, and

The emergence of the smart phone, and the age of social media has been similarly disruptive in its effect on American political and social life as the television. Like the television, it too has increased social distance, but for decidedly different reasons. The great irony about Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media is that the claim to bring the world “closer together” when in fact contributing to social isolation. This is because social media, created the concept of personalized news, which allows individuals to choose what information they receive. While at first this seems like a positive, and deserving of celebration, no more tyranny of the television owners, it actually is deeply problematic in that individuals tend to choose to receive all their information from like-minded individuals. As a collective, group tend to isolate themselves into their own echo chambers, because they do not want to be uncomfortable and have their ideas challenged. These polarized silos, occasionally referred to as safe spaces, limit public discourse and are very confining in nature, because people no longer confront others with different perspectives. It is in this modern world, of information bubbles, and confirmation biases understanding for those with different opinions has decreased. Rather than solving this system, thus actually contributes, to the oppression of religious, and racial minorities, as well as the economically disadvantaged because it is precisely this

Growing up in the public eye has increased my knowledge on how media works. I myself have been portrayed in the media so I am currently very knowledgeable on many of the topics presented. Some of the topics presented below are more prevalent in my life than others. I will go on to describe different types of media content, media industries, media effects and which aspects of those categories are the most important to myself.

Welcome to the marvelous world of social media –where today youth live in a creative identity to an audience who have also promoted a different personality. Were young peoples’ are living and growing up with a global society’s culture changing what they do and who they are. Adolescence are learning to construct their ideal self. These devices compel teenager to a whole new world state of the self, devices and apps becoming part of young people lives. A generation were checking in and posting the location of their next citation, taking pictures of their meal, or most common snapping a selfie, is most important that the moment. These devices are shaping and expressing the revision of teenager identity and where they stand in the society global culture.