Social Media And Digital Imagery

In today’s society, we have been overwhelmed with the internet and social media. This has had an effect on the way law enforcement has had to adapt to social changes. Since the birth of Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, Snap Chat, and YouTube law enforcement has had to make many changes to their operations. These are both good and bad, considering almost everyone has a smartphone with a camera and social media applications on them, they are readily accessible to anyone at any time.

A growing hot topic, and cause for concern is the increasing use of social media in the workplace. The landscape for communication has changed, and the line between personal and professional communications has been blurred. How will your employer manage the risks associated with the use of social media and at the same time, gain the benefits that this media form provides? While many employers were initially concerned that employees would use company time and equipment for socializing with friends, they are quickly learning that many social networks can also be used directly for work purposes.

Since the up-climb of social media began in 2003, law enforcement has greatly adapted to the social media network in order to better communicate with the public and to improve their protocol. Much of police work is unappreciated and unknown of. Therefore, some departments have taken it upon themselves to educate the public via social networks, such as Twitter and Facebook. This is done in order to inform the community of what their department does, and to build confidence and trust towards their agency. Around the country, law enforcement agencies see social media as both beneficial and damaging. Thus, with the awareness that social media is here to stay, law enforcement has chosen to adjust to these social changes and to use them in their benefit.

Images can project very powerful points across without using words. In this picture, four young adults who appear to be in their early 20’s standing alongside each other in the foreground. Each of them has a cell phone in their hand, peering straight at their phone. The background of this image is an older cemented light brown rock wall in which these young adults lean against. There is no interaction between these four people in the image. These phones may have increased online social interaction, nonetheless also becoming a distraction. They have greatly diminished person-to-person communication, consequently causing the younger generation to put up a social wall which could inadvertently hurts their social skills.

When looking for prospective employees, employers do not enjoy rifling through Facebook pictures of obscene pictures and statuses with crude language. Bad behavior of employees, even off the clock, made public by social media

According to a survey report done by the Kelly services with 170,000 people from 30 different countries, 55% of all the participants believe that the use of social media for both the personal and professional posts can cause problems in the workplace (Bennett, 2012). According to a study done by the proof point, many US companies that have hired the employees more than 1000 in number face a real problem with their employees to use social media (Ostrow 2009). Almost 17% of these companies had faced serious disrepute due to the offensive comments on the social media websites (Ostrow 2009). Almost 13% of the US companies have investigated the use of personal text messages that have been found to infringe the company’s law (Ostrow 2009).

According to the First Amendment of the United States Constitution, the people of the nation are entitled to the freedom of speech, but not all speech is the same. The internet provides us with an infinite amount of information, grants us access to virtually everything we could want and acts as an unrestrained vehicle of communication. In the day and age where technology is advancing and social media and internet are of rising importance, the Supreme Court of the United States has been faced with the challenge of deciding what constitutes a true threat made on social media websites.

Internet expands more each and every year. Although this is a good thing because we have way more resources now. It becomes way too progressive that humans get to into it. The government takes advantage of this. Humans have emotions and sometimes a way to let them out is to have the internet. People believe everything they post is safe but the government owns some of these websites we use. The government withholds a lot of our information, so it is questionable ton ask if what we put online is safe. The author extensively explores the role of internet censorship in the right to decide what art, or entertainment tool we use (1). This shows that not only do we think everything we post is safe but in the end it is our fault. We document part of our life and post on social media to make our life better or cooler in some ways. It is good to believe that most of the time the government will not do anything but it is also scary to know that they can track where someone is at any

In our digital age, people are increasingly using social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace to share personal experiences, relati onships, opinions, and accomplishments with family and "friends." They view their Web sites as private and their right to voice their opinions or post pictures of themselves as protected free speech. Should employers have the right to terminate employees based on personal information that the employee has posted online? In most cases, the answer to this question is "no."

If employers are looking for a particular segment like graduate students to be the face of their organization, they would need to considerate whether or not to use the social media because many college students goes on parties and they have fun while they are in school, but some of them don’t realize the impact a photo can make when they are looking for a job after they graduate.“College students sometimes post questionable photographs and provocative comments about their alcohol consumption, recreational drug use, and sexual exploits” (Weathington, & Bechtel, 2012, p.

Social media has become a prominent entity in everyone’s daily lives, and with it, has also bought some pros and cons. The world was shaken on different occasions with countless videos of police brutality. Since social media has become so popular and widespread around America, people filming these arrests of police brutality has now made it mainstream and has brought transparency to the misconduct that police have brought towards civilians. It is not that police misconduct has not been happening, but with the growing age of technology, everything has now come to the forefront and is now being exposed worldwide.

Judicial factors: The dynamic and complex issues associated with social media in the workplace has effected the law enforcement organization and its employees. This is especially true when a survey conducted by the Institute for Criminal Justice found that 78 percent of law enforcement respondents had a social media account and of those more than 38 percent identified themselves as policing professionals (Stuart, 2013). As the growth continues, social media has created a blurred divide between constitutional protections and has created exposure to liability and admissibility.

Digital photography has been put together with social media applications much like Instagram. Instagram allows the user to instantly share their photographs on social media networking site. Hence, it provides the user with several digital photographic filters to use and possibilities for other manipulations. For example, cropping, cropping provides the user with user with easily used tools but it is also a constrained environment (Zappavigna, 2016) as there are restrictions, for example, on image dimension. The types of photographs made out that the selfie is the most common type of photo (Dinhopl & Gretzel, 2016). Dinhopl and Gretzel (2016) suggest that selfietaking, which is a social media related practice, has consequences for photography

Can social media impact the way photographers work?doe sit impact the way we view photographs. Can photographer grow in social media and improve their create? Around the world, people post an average of 1.8 billion images every day which means there are 657 billions of images post every single year. Photography is social media has changed the way everything is done and handled. social media has created a place for distribution and networking. It has helped create thousands of photographs and photographers. social media has changed the way we view photographs and how impactful they are. With social media, it is harder to find a difference between photographers and people doing it for fun. It creates millions of people taking pictures because everyone has access to a camera. There is one photograph, in particular, that has a great impact on many people and it's by Steven McCurray “The Afghan Girl, Pakistan”. This is a great example of a photograph posted on social media that has had an impact on many people and has brought awareness to the story behind the image. The involvement of social media is photography can either be negative or positive. For the older generation of photographers, it is harder for them because they have to learn a new way of networking and distributes their photographs. Whereas the new generation has it easier because they know how to use this platform to her advantage. It's easier for them to

Social networking sites such as Twitter or Facebook have created a new ethical dilemma for many businesses. Corporations, small businesses, and even universities are struggling create policies to manage their employees social networking behaviors. Social networking access, particularly for recruiters, can provide personal information about potential employees, which would otherwise not be available. A business must follow statutes and guidelines when disclosing information to the public. Individuals on social networking sites have no such constraints. Employees can and do make comments about their employers online. Employers can and do watch what employees post online. Any individual can send or post potentially damaging information