Media And Social Media

In the aftermath of the Arab uprisings the role and influence of social media became a contentious issue among news media outlets and political analysts. In a study conducted by the Pew Research Center Project for Excellence in Journalism, “New research suggests that the primary role was in spreading news outside of the region, connecting a global audience to the events through tools such as Twitter, Facebook, and Youtube.” While the mainstream media focused heavily on young protesters mobilizing in the streets with smartphones in hand–much of the attention was on whether social media played a causal role in the uprisings.

In recent years, we have also seen how new media can play an important role in social change and political mobilization, with the 2011 Arab uprisings and then-Senator Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign as salient examples” (Elchahabi 3). Author explaining here that new media changed the form of how public and candidates see each other perspectives. The increasing access to the Internet around the globe, many candidates and citizens in the evolving world are also revolving to new media, which played a major role in the 2014 Indian elections also (Elchahabi 5). “When Narenda Modi was sworn in as Prime Minister on May 26, 2014, he was the second most “liked” politician on Facebook in the world, trailing only President Obama. “We saw a trend, we read this trend, where the youth of the country were embracing social media as their first tool when they started using the Internet, and we made sure our presence was there," said Arvind Guptahead, head of the social media campaign for Modi’s party. However, in Nigeria’s modern general elections, both major presidential candidates and their parties preserved active on Twitter and Facebook accounts and the Independent National Electoral Commission proactively engaged with citizens on social media to report inquiries associated to the electoral process. Social media

Furthermore, Bing writes that amongst all other social media platforms, like Twitter, YouTube, and Google+, “Facebook was the most visited social media site during election campaigns” (Bing 173). Bing analyzed the access to information and communication technologies among urban, rural, and a national average in Kenya. The highest access to information was radio followed by mobile phones, and, landline phones being the lowest. During the presidential campaigns most of the

With the advancing globalized society that we live in, social media has become a political outlet for civilians of the interconnected world. Through this technological circuit, citizens are able to speak freely about the issues that concern them, giving them the ability to connect with others who share the same perspective. Looking through a development perspective, it is evident that social media outlets, for example twitter, have lead to major political uproar, such as the Arab Uprisings of 2011, or as popularized by the Western media, “The Arab Spring”. At this time, the demands of the protestors in the Arab region indicated their desire for greater social and economic justice and were made as a response to the growing concern regarding the Egyptian economy’s tie into the capitalist world market (Haynes, 2013). The Arab Spring was not solely a revolt against authoritarian regimes but also expressions of a crisis caused by the imbalanced social order brought upon by neoliberal policies (Bogaert, 2013). During this time, citizenry relied heavily on social media to spread information and promote insurgent agendas. Globalization and the technological facets of our hegemonic society have allowed for regular civilians to become part of the political system as exemplified through the use of social media during the Arab Spring.

The phenomenon of social networking has taken the world by storm, becoming part of a daily routine for many children and adults. Billions of people around the world use social media to share information and make connections. Nonetheless, parents and researchers argue that social media is can cause emotional damage and lower one’s self-esteem. To understand the role of social media, this essay aims to provide a discussion of how social media has led to greater self-expression among individuals, since it is harder to feel embarrassment over the internet then in person. Next, it closely examines social media in relations to keeping in touch with family and friends, whether they are close or far. Finally, it focuses on how social media has enabled large groups of people to unite and achieve some specific objective, and how this brings change in society. In short, the influence of social media on society has allowed for individuals to openly express themselves, open communication between friends and family, and to unite large groups of people for a common objective.

Internet has permeated almost every aspect in the life of American adults (Thorson & Rodgers, 2006) and its adoption has grown significantly over the past decade. It is used for a wide range of activities which include shopping, keeping track of bank accounts, reading worldwide news and happenings and interacting with people through social networks such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn, among others (Cheong & Morrison, 2008). According to a report by Business Insider Intelligence (2016), social media accounted for nearly 20% of the total time spent on the internet and this has been growing consistently year-on-year.

The internet has allowed for the creation of social media. Today, “69% of the public uses some type of social media” (Pew); and as we’ve seen, celebrities use social media, too. Social media has even been known to produce celebrities in its own right – in other words, individuals have become famous strictly through means of the internet. People may envy the lifestyles of the rich and famous; or they may feel a sense of connection. But, passive envy or interest in the lives of celebrities does not stop there for some. Sometimes individuals become fanatical and develop a rich adulation for one or more celebrities. In fact, in 2002 the Celebrity Worship Scale (CWS) was introduced by McCutcheon, Lange, and Houran (Sansone R. and L.). Findings reveal that celebrity worshipping individuals often display psychosocial characteristics such as sensation-seeking, cognitive rigidity, identity diffusion, and poor interpersonal boundaries (Sansone R. and L.). They have concerns about body image and are more prone to cosmetic surgery (Sansone R. and L.), which in countries like the United States may be influenced by an overwhelming obsession with beauty and appearance. “It is not surprising that a society that once used skin color to determine social status should continue to emphasize the superiority of specific physical traits and to encourage people to acquire these desired traits through plastic surgery” (Haviland et. al. 289). Intense celebrity worshippers also have a higher chance of

Social media has become an essential part of life for many teens and young adults. With social media only getting bigger, it has grown to the point where it is effecting democracy. People have come to rely on social media as their source of news, which can be very one sided. If social media is the only source of news, it would dictate who the president would be every election. Twitter could have blocked Pro Trump tweets and only shown bad or misleading things if they wanted to. Some other things that could threaten 21st century American democracy are fake news articles, Trump’s tweets, and misleading “click bait” headlines.

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.

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Everyone in this world is a part of their environment. Everything in their environment as an effect on their behaviors. The way people are using social sites like Facebook isn’t always good, that could be a reason on why some of these shootings are getting outrageous. Social media is the number one behavior changer. Social media has changed the way people shop, the way they eat, their appearance, their relationships, and the way they educate themselves. It isn’t bad in most ways but it’s the way people make it to be.

Television is one of the most appealing forms of media. It can be informative, and it can be entertaining. It is convenient, and it is easy to use. However, it is dangerous. The average Canadian child is exposed to almost fourteen hours of television weekly. (Paediatrics & Child Health, 2003). The media, specifically television has a strong influence on children and adolescents. Television negatively impacts the health of children and adolescents as evidenced by: childhood obesity caused by marketing, body-disorders and body dissatisfaction from exposure to media, and lastly, increased violent behaviour due to media violence.

“Let go of who you think you are supposed to be and embrace who you are.” Brene Brown states in her book, The Gifts of Imperfection (2010). This book focuses on the importance of self-acceptance. This concept of self-acceptance is difficult for adult to live by, which means it is especially difficult for children grasp and wrap their heads around. At such a young age, the way human beings are supposed to look, act, and feel has been imbedded into our brains. Every day, we are faced with challenges that society and the media place in front of us. They tell us who we should be, what we should be, as well as how we should be. This leads individuals to live an unsatisfying life where we overthink everything and never truly feel good enough. This paper will focus on the negative effects that social media has on children and adolescence and how they view themselves. This paper will address how much influence social media has on children and the different issues that come from it. Different research shows that a majority of children and adolescence that engage in social media do have self-esteem and self-acceptance issues. Gender, race, class as well as other factors, may affect the severity of this problem that children and adolescence face. Another issue that is found with social media and children is that there is an increase chance that bullying from peers happen. Social media plays a big role in today’s world and it is something that is growing more and more each

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.

In the Business environment, Social networking plays a huge role throughout the world. When it comes to the business or enterprise, social networking allows employees to share ideas and collaborate more effectively than professional tools like email, facilitating well-informed as well as faster decision-making and also helps to improve productivity. Social networking sites where people interact freely, sharing and discussing information about each other and their personal life using conversations, images, videos and audio. These social media data in different forms such as blogs, forums and Chat box, social networks, Wikipedia, virtual world, tagging & news, digital storytelling and scrapbooking, and data, content, pictures and video sharing, podcast portals, and collective intelligence, social bookmarking, microblogging. There are lots popular social networking sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube.