Media In Social Media

People today would be surprised to know that social media has not been around forever. In fact, even more surprising is the realization that people did not really even have or use cell phones almost twenty years ago, and in those days cell phones were only used for calling. We have come a long way. Now, the whole world is in the palm of our hands, or in our cars, or on our wrists. Possibly the greatest thing to come out of this drastic evolution is social media. Social media is where everyone can keep up with family, check in with friends, and share their big time experiences with the rest of the world. However, it has opened up many, many more doors than ever intended, both good and bad. Social media has ironically turned people less social, provided an easy outlet for people to bully and point out insecurities, but also has changed the way we receive important information and news.

Social media is different than anything the world has ever seen. It allows us to connect with anyone at any time at the tips of our fingers. We can be friends with people that we could have never connected with otherwise and see deeper into people’s lives than ever before. Through social media we can know what people are doing at any given time. It is possible to be friends with celebrities or even friends with your enemies. Social media can even become a dating platform for some individuals. However, all of these connections that are made are on a superficial level. Through the arguments of Levin, Putnam and Hayes I will argue that although the original goal of social media was to bring communities together in reality it is actually tearing

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 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

Medium theory is concerned with the prevalent role that technology plays in a constantly changing society, shaping patterns of both culture and communication. Research conducted by the authors, compared how newspapers and blogs differ in terms of the characterization of social media, the framing of the Steubenville rape case, and the characterization of the perpetrators and the victim. The sample included newspaper articles and blog entries released December 2012 to June 2013, the period that corresponded with the nonjury trial of the accused rapists and the aftermath of the sentencing. Altogether, the sample included 44 newspaper articles and 34 blogs. The findings demonstrated there was no significant difference in how the two platforms characterized social media regarding the coverage of the case. Concerning the framing of the case, newspaper articles were 50/50 in their description of football players as American athletes with a positive or negative connotation. Personal blog entries were heavily leaning toward the negative connotation. In addition, blog entries also discussed victim blaming/slut-shaming as a societal concern and were more likely to mention rape cover-up by coaches, officials, friends of the suspect, etc. than newspaper articles.

Social media is destroying the way teens think, believe, socialize, and even their self-esteem. Teen depression has been increasing rapidly over the last 6 years and social media is the main cause of this. Depression among today’s teens are outrageous and most are even starting to commit suicide or self-harm daily. Being yourself is important and if they can’t be themselves than who exactly are they when they’re on these social media accounts. Suicide shouldn’t be a thought of anyone but really shouldn’t be one for a teen who has so much to look forward too. Depression is real but it going to come to end and I’ll find my own way to make it happen even if I must do it alone. Losing friends, family member, and even classmates over stupid things like someone not liking their picture is crazy. Embrace yourself who cares what those people behind a screen have to say.

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.

Since the 1990s, the World Wide Web first launched, the internet has been very popular to everyone from babies that are 2-year old’s to 90-year old’s elderly people. The internet has created a new way for humans to interact in a much easier way than maybe calling someone on the phone or meeting them in person to discuss. Now we have social media such as Snapchat, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr and much more sites to meet and chat with people. These social media are easier to connect with your friends or coworkers that you don’t necessarily have their numbers. In college or maybe in high school you can send the paper that’s due the next day through email to the professor because you can’t make the class, before you would have to either miss a doctor’s appointment you had the next day or miss entirely the school day and get a zero on the paper for not bringing it in. But now we have this Social Construction that most people take for granted. Most people that have all these social media is because it is part of the Norms of this generation of the 21st century for a Social Group like this to all interact with some sort of social media like these.

As stated by the expertise of computers science, how it has identified how out technologies has created a tool for our society and worldwide to enable the people across the world to learn and utilizes the sources in schools, jobs, family and friends and communication. However, communication, build, and advances and educate. Social media it is forms of social networking, that allows people and children across the world to create a profile information, use of photos, videos, and messaging. Statistically speaking that network user spend too much time on Facebook websites, Instagram, and do to others websites that is available for users. These websites are also used for business used in marketing and personal use for people to connect with their family and friends. Social media has become an important technology that has been developed and designed for personal user and user of marketing in production Although, with all the sources of electronics, computers, which has change a lot on brain functioning, because children do learn new things and takes in the knowledge of what they have learned to utilize on social media.

Social media is a large threat to 21st century American democracy. Social media has become a very dangerous need in today’s society. “To many, it appeared as if social media was eating away at the very foundations of our democracies” (Kossow, 2). Social media, especially nowadays, is very threatening and dangerous for society in many scary ways. People of all ages, men and women are very influenced by social media and have more than one source of social media on their smartphones. The media can rapidly spread stories and news headlines within minutes by sharing on Facebook or retweeting on Twitter.

Modern society is full of many influences that trigger one’s identity online. Social networks have played a large roll in guiding users to maintain, create or enhance their social presence both online and in real time. There are many different social networks that enable users to communicate and connect based on similarities, differences and many other factors. The social network theory explains these connections as ties, and individual users as nodes. The more ties, or relationships, online that you have the more social capital you can accumulate. Social capital can come in the form of likes, shares, posts, photos, and anything that you can gain from social media applications. Social connection websites, multimedia sharing websites and professional social networks assist in the construction of users identities through social media sites like Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn. With these identities individuals are able to successfully interact within such social networks in ways in which have changed social statuses, impacted the overall health of individuals and created new opportunities for users.

More than 40 years on since the first email was delivered, social media has taken the world by a storm with millions of demographic groups choosing to connect through social networking platforms that facilitate a multifaceted level of online communication. As of May 2011, Facebook was named the number one social networking site with over one billion users and 864 million daily active users (Satici & Uysal, 2015, p.185). The surging popularity of Facebook, which was designed to foster social interaction, is unprecedented. Conversely, in spite of its soaring popularity the prevalent adoptions of Facebook as a leisure activity has quickly become part of everyday routine, with a plethora of emerging research highlighting the negative effects

Have you ever heard of the contagious disease called social networking. Once you get a glimpse of any of the social media websites, you’re pretty much creating a custom made trashcan to throw your education in, a fire to burn your job into ashes, and the list goes on. Social networking is used in a way where students’ education is second from their list next to staying updated in friends, family, and even strangers’ life. With these habits developed, they bring it into their jobs like Mcdonalds or Burger King, if they’re lucky to get a job there. Now these days, all I hear from people around me talking about the most ridiculous news ever. When I hear these stories, I ask myself, “What happened to spending time on homework and studying or doing the job that was assigned to them? They pretty much said they did 24 hours worth of research on rumors about a person on social networking sites. Why?” It 's available around the world from places from the bathroom to the beach, but people are forgetting to look at how social media is changing and shaping their life in a dangerous way. I believe social networking is not beneficial and is used around the world for the wrongest reasons; hence the most reliable choice to make is to stay away or not use it at all.

The widespread and significant influence of mass media, especially social media, virtual social networks and mobile messaging tools, the various dimensions of human life more influenced by these emerging technological platforms in the age of information and information society. In the present era, social media has become an integral part of our lives. All aspects of our lives have changed from politics to society, culture, and economics via social media and new technologies. Social media has caused revolutionary changes throughout society, becoming a dominant means of communication and transforming the ways in which organizations in both the private and public sectors need to interact with citizens (Mahajan-Cusack, 2016:

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.