Media And Social Media

“Contrary to the idea that social media creates a polarizing “filter bubble,” exposing people to only a narrow range of opinions, 70 percent of Millennials say that their social media feeds are comprised of diverse viewpoints evenly mixed between those similar to and different from their own. (American Press Institute, 2015, p. 3)

Social Media is affecting our society in a negative way. From being the number one cause of divorce, ruining people’s careers, and being a haven for teen suicides, many misfortunes arise due to social media. People may not notice its damaging side effects yet it is slowly but surely proving detrimental to all involved in the game. By taking a step back and maintaining self-control, any human being immersed in the frenzy of social media can enjoy its perks without getting caught up in the whirlwind of unfortunate events.

The selfie assemblage is a means of self-expression and representation of oneself. It is one of the ways to communicate and interact with others. Emerging technologies and new platforms are enabling individuals to interact with each other more conveniently. As a result of these emerging technologies, everyone is always connected in one way or the other. These interactions through devices are affecting behaviors and practices of users in a variety of ways. Some ways of communication can affect users’ measure of worth. Therefore individuals’ view of themselves and each other is sometimes dependent on their interactions with social media platforms. This age of emerging technologies and digital media has had many mixed effects on society. In some ways, social media has given users the opportunity to express themselves and discover their identities through interaction with others across various platforms. They have also had an impact on how network identity differs from one platform to another. As well as, increase ways in which individuals are able to promote themselves online.

Social media has opened the door to so many things that we never would have imagined. Working in the nursing field I have been exposed to situations I would have never thought possible. A woman left her husband because he was abusive and she was afraid for her life. Her daughter attended one of her school friend’s birthday party and the child’s mother not thinking anything of it she posted the picture on Facebook. The husband did have a Facebook page but his sister did and she saw the picture and informed her brother where the child was.

Social media can be a great tool for utilizing modern communication techniques. Young people make up a large percentage of social media users. Teenagers frequently browse forum and imageboard websites to look at content they enjoy. Many different groups of people use these forms of communication to voice their opinion or advertise an important issue. Recently, the alt-right uses modern social media to spread their extremist ideals and opinions. The article explains that many young people are in danger of going down the extremist path, due to the alt-right's use of propaganda in the form of memes and other teen friendly media. While the alt-rights reach has extended to more young people, the actual effect of the propaganda is not as severe as some may believe.

Communication today, is changing as a result of media consumption. Social media is an ever-growing and fast developing means of communication in society, and with the vast amount of new technology constantly transforming on the market, the empowered consumer is just a click away from accessing almost anything. The internet itself has opened up a new spectrum and has trained us to expect to gain information on demand at any time and from anywhere.

Social networking sites create an unspoken competition between users which will cause them to experience low self-esteem. For instance, people compete for social capital: relationships with people among a society. Jacob Silverman stated, “If I don’t get ten faves in the first three minutes after tweeting something, I’ll probably just delete it, an amateur comedian told the wall street journal…What the comedian really fears is the loss of followers and social capital” (Silverman 25). When people post on social networking sites and their tweet, status, or picture doesn’t evoke a response within a certain amount of time the author will feel unnoticed by their peers. This “unnoticed” fear causes a decrease in self-esteem because the author

This paper explores four published articles and I book that pertains to the research conducted on social media. This paper also focuses on relationships, the positive and negative aspects of social media and the varies ways social media effects modern day. This paper also surveys people between the ages of fifteen and sixty- three. It discovers their daily usage that is spent these social sites and discusses the level of privacy and information that is shared on social sites.

Media constantly surrounds our everyday lives whether we like to admit it or not. In some cases, it is an advertisement flashing on the T.V. or listening to the newest hit on the radio. Although we think we can control what we watch and explore, sometimes we are exposed involuntary to certain topics. Our life styles, preference, and individuality all influence what we each choose to consume and not consume. In totality, media subjects us to both involuntary and voluntary consumption and elicits a physical and mental effect on individuals who are exposed.

In the last two decades, the obtainability and ease of use of electronic announcement shave

“Social media is a group of internet-based applications, built on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, allowing the creation and exchange of user-generated content” (Terry, 2009). It includes a various range of services and forms. Social media networks are playing important roles in many fields. Generally, social media and the relevant social networks can be classified into 6 specific groups: social communicating media (e.g. Facebook), collaborative media (e.g. Wikipedia), content communities (e.g. YouTube), blogs (e.g. Twitter), virtual social worlds (e.g. Second Life) and virtual game worlds (e.g. World of Warcraft) (Kaplan and Haenlein, 2010). The use of social media networks has been developed

Now that we are in the second decade of the 21st Century, it appears more and more evident that the so-called "Digital Revolution" is in a second phase. The first phase of the revolution was the rapid increase in digital technology as computers became cheap enough for most consumers to purchase at least one for the home and reliable enough that virtually every type of business incorporated computer systems into their day-to-day business operations. The second phase of the revolution occurred a few years after the turn of the new century, when applications such as instant messaging, Friendster, and MySpace became more and more popular, particularly among the youngest computer users. Today, computers are used even more widely for basic interpersonal communications, often replacing even the ubiquitous cell phone. Some of the most popular current trends in communications include FaceBook and Twitter, in addition to texting via cell phone instead of using cell phones for voice communications. In some ways, these new modes of communication represent responses to needs; in other ways, the media through which people choose to communicate are actually changing the nature of interpersonal and professional communications.

The effects of mass media and social media have changed the way people have experienced presidential campaigns in many ways. With the development of new technologies through the last hundred years many different ways of experiencing the campaigns have taken place. Newspapers, radio, television, internet and social media websites have changed the ways we all have experienced elections.

There are now many social media companies around today, in which most are available for users and companies around the world 24/7. Some of the main ones being Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

We will start our campaign in the beginning of June till the end of September in 2017. Our main goal is to reach 1000 millennials in the Fort Worth area in those four months.