Media And Social Media

Traditional media has failed to live up to its fourth estate role. This has lead us to the question, can the more modern, social media, make up for the lack of success that traditional media has had in fulfilling this watchdog role for the people? Kemp’s rules of CIDRA1 apply to social media as they do with traditional media. Thus, we must determine what, if any, obstacles are present in preventing social media from completing this role. More specifically, do the five filters that Chomsky highlights apply to social media as they do to traditional media? Or does the fundamental structure of social media allow for it to accomplish a fifth estate role? I argue that social media is more effective at playing a watchdog role than traditional media. Social media is built on a platform that has the interest of working for the people in terms of freedom of distributing ideas and checking elite power in liberal democracies. Furthermore, “…traditional media formats are no longer the only politically relevant forms of media” (Metzgar, Maruggi, 2009, p. 149). The reason that social media can have higher success in acting as a watchdog role stems from one central theme: when it comes to social media, less of Chomsky’s filters lie between the person wanting to distribute an idea and the ability to have this idea delivered to the public.

The influence of social media on teenagers affects their academic success, since it’s a stage of their education. It is necessary to find solutions so that the most important thing for students will be their education, and this will allow them to have a good and stable academic performance. The effect of social media are lack of study, class attendance and even when they perform their tasks. Currently many young people have a social network which they visit for various purposes. Social networks were created with the aim of "communicating", but it is not as safe to communicate our life in a public space where anyone can see it.

Teens suffer from depression more than they have ever before because social media causes them to be exposed to many things that cause self-esteem

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.

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

Social media is a phrase that we use to describe what we post on apps or platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. There are many different types of social media. Some of these include blogs, forums, micro blogging, and podcasts. On these platforms and apps, people post personal things about what is going on in their lives or they post random things. Some of these things include fake news. Fake news is news that doesn’t exist to make someone scared or jealous. Social media is something that has changed businesses. Nowadays, smart businesses create online communities where customers and clients can exchange ideas, share experiences, and encourage innovation.

The Internet allows for the widespread dissemination of information and ideologies amongst individuals and their communities (Subrahmanyam, Reich, Waechter, & Espinoza, 2008). On the Internet, divergent groups whose values differ from mainstream society can congregate and form like-minded digital communities. Technology and culture reflexively influence and perpetuate each other. One technological area heavily influenced by existing and changing cultural norms are social networking sites (SNS). Social networking sites, especially larger ones like Facebook and Twitter, reflect societal values through their upholding of rules and regulations for content and usage (Subrahmanyam et al., 2008). For instance, sites may ban hate speech, pornography, or defamation in a manner similar to laws and common practices in the non-digital world (“Facebook Terms of Service,” 2016; “Twitter Terms of Service,” 2016). But what happens when a deviant community grows large enough to warrant its own social media platform? To what extent should media conglomerates like Apple and Google act as gatekeepers who determine access to these communities? This is currently occurring with a new controversial social networking site called “Gab” whose attempts to launch an application in the App Store with Apple and Play Store with Google have failed (“Google Faces Lawsuit,” 2017; Hayden, 2017; Morris, 2017). This paper aims to examine how consumers view Apple and Google’s rejection of the application. Do

Social media has been around for about 40 years and is a huge form of communication today. Social media allows for an easy and direct way to connect with people all around the world, while never leaving the comfort of your own home. While most people use social media, it has been discovered that social media can be affected by gender. There have been studies conducted to discover if females use it more than males or if gender affects someones personality on social media.

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

In modern society mobile technology and social media have become ever engrossing and are constantly merging with parts of society. For instance, the role of a public figure that supports what they believe to be a honourable ideology, what was once a primarily television based role, has now become dominated by personality from social media platforms. These individuals used to be limited by their success through traditional media sources, providing a gate keeping sort of effect (Singer, 2013). Along with the the popular adoption of social media into mainstream society, came a dissolution of the success of these gatekeepers, and a new wave of influencers able to get their own message out through these services.

What role does social media play in the opinion of the public? How does social media news play in shaping public concerns and opinions? Why do people create false new stories? What is the idea around creating false new stories? What important political situations have been drastically affected by false news stories?

We are now living in the technological era of smart phones, Apple products, and social media. Throughout the Generation Like Social Media Documentary, frontline propose the perspective of social media as an evolving marketing method of likes, share, and retweets. Each like, share, or retweet ranging from their favorite brand, product, or celeb represent themselves creating their own unique identity which in term is used by companies as a marketing approach to reach teens and receive profit. Furthermore, with the advances of social media a digital revolution has begun in which frontline seek awareness on how children don’t understand how companies use technology and teens for their own gain.

To begin, social media is an enormous factor in how technology can make society more alone. Almost every teenager in America has social media and it is a huge part of most of their lives in some way. Most kids spend numerous hours on their cell phone scrolling through social media and in those hours, kids constantly compare themselves to other people. They see people on Instagram who they want to look like or see people’s tweets on Twitter who they want to be as funny as. This constant comparison from social media starts to give people mental diseases, such as depression. Social media is starting to have a direct influence on depression. For example, an article from TIME magazine states, “Among kids who used devices five or more hours a day, 48% had at least one suicide-related outcome” (Heid). This statistic explains how kids who use electronics more often, have more of a tendency to feel alone and have thoughts of depression.

Social media has become one of the fastest ways to send an important message to the world. There has been many ways to send a political, social, or even economic message to the public. This generations practice with social networking has shaped how we send important messages. This message found in a Salvation Army advertisement from Adweek, shows a horrifying reality to the 2015 trend. This picture was a selection based on the message relating to all ages and its unique usage of social media. Important issues are often posted on sites that get frequent attention. Apps such as Instagram, Twitter and Tumblr are few that have constant controversies. The primary message of the image is to change society's view of domestic violence

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.