Social Media And Its Impact On The United States

On August 9th, 2014, an unarmed teenage boy named Michael Brown was murdered by a Ferguson police officer. The reason for his death remains unknown. Bystanders say that the boy in question did not do anything wrong, he even put his hands in the air when police told him so. The conspicuous circumstances of this shooting sparked an already tense situation between the majority of Ferguson inhabitants and the police to a situation which quickly escalated towards riots and protests. This “hands up, don’t shoot” movement received worldwide media attention and generated a debate about the relationship between the black community and law enforcement in the U.S. In this essay I will try to answer how the anger towards the Ferguson police manifested

Race riots are one of the major news items we hear about via the media when a social crisis occurs. The riots in Baltimore, however, were not so much about race, but more about economic and social class separations. The riots began as a peaceful protest amongst the citizens of Baltimore over the death of one of their own, Freddie Gray. Gray was a young, African-American, from a financially lower class area of Baltimore. Unfortunately, he died while in custody of the Baltimore Police. While this is a tragic loss, he was unlawfully detained by the police (Sarlin, 2015) during this ordeal. On the surface, the riots may appear as a cut-and-dry race provoked, once they are looked into further, that is not necessarily the case.

In August 2015, Ferguson was experienced an insurgent uprising. There were already previous victims of police brutality that have been affected, but the life of Michael Brown being taken away caused people to completely snap. The fact that racial injustice, the rejection of freedom of speech, and disrespecting American citizens was part of the killing of the teen made people create a full on riot protesting the transgression hoping to make it all end and to prevent any more lives from being taken all because of policemen changing the meaning of their job to something not even close to serving its purpose.

The shooting of sparked a nation-wide movement not only demanding justice for Mike Brown, but also protesting the racial discrimination deeply embedded in the criminal justice system as well as various institutions in the larger American society. Furthermore, jfdkjfjdakljk something about international recognition. Similar protests and riots have been springing up in other cities since 1960s, and police killings of unarmed black men happen once every 28 hours (Kahle, 2014). However, Michael Brown’s killing has led to the most sustained uprising against police violence in at least two decades, centered among the African American residents of Ferguson, and has rallied significant nationwide support as well as international attention (Kahle, 2014; Taylor, 2014). The killing of Michael Brown is by no means an isolated event, and presence of racial tensions, especially in the St. Louis area, was already present long before. The large-scale pushback that the killing of Michael Brown has set in motion, then, seems to have been the last straw, prompting the eruption of decades of pent up frustration at a racist and oppressive system. That being said, what are the previous straws that have slowly pushed the black community in Ferguson to the breaking point? What are the factors that have caused these tensions to boil over and erupt into such a large-scale upheaval? This paper will explore some of the

All across the nation, in the news the black community has been making their voice heard, in regards to white police brutality, and murder against the unarmed black community. Many of these brutal attacks and flat out murders of unarmed black people haven’t been largely prosecuted, some officers have even been acquitted of any wrong doing or murder. This has led to outrage in the African American community at large. The shooting of an unarmed black teen named Michael Brown caused the racial strain in this country to break.

All across the nation, in the news the black community has been making their voice heard, in regards to white police brutality, and murder against the unarmed black community. Many of these brutal attacks and flat out murders of unarmed black people haven’t been largely prosecuted, some officers have even been acquitted of any wrong doing or murder. This has led to outrage in the African American community at large. The shooting of an unarmed black teen named Michael Brown caused the racial strain in this country to break.

1. How the social media is working as a medium or platform of conveying the messages or opinion of a person to the entire world?

Many of the people in Ferguson felt that this young man was fatally shot based off the color of his skin, and that this would not have happened if he was white. In fact, there is a large amount of African American individuals who believe that officers are “morally bankrupt” (Mcwhorter, 2014). This position is taken by countless communities across America (Mcwhorter 2014).

As the four officer involved in the beating of Rodney King were white, many felt the incident was racially motivated or at least demonstrated a lack of respect for other races on the part of the officers. The incident not only further marginalized the African American community, but raised concern within the white community as well. Prior to the incident 70 percent of white residents indicated they approved of the Los Angeles Police Department. Following the Rodney King incident the approval rate dropped to 41 percent (Walker, 2007). The concern went well beyond Los Angeles. This incident brought the issue of police brutality and use of excessive force to national attention and under federal scrutiny (Rushin, 2014).

Even back when lynchings occurred the press was very unsympathetic (Perloff, 2000). Though some assumed press refrained from reporting lynching stories, in actuality the press talked about lynchings in graphic details (Perloff, 2000). Southern reporters use sympathetic or kind language when describing lynch mobs but used vulgar and unsympathetic language to describe lynch victims (Perloff, 2000). This is very similar today’s media coverage of black protest. Today’s media use terms such as “rioting,” “violent,” “lawlessness,” “criminals,” “thugs,” and “animals” to describe black protest (Brave New Films, 2015). However, when there is a white group tearing down a city after a big game, terms such as “young people,” “fans,” “celebrating,” and “passionate” are used (Brave New Films,

In the present culture of the United States, social media has had a major impact in American society. It has a profound influence and intertwined itself in almost every aspect of the average American’s life. It ranges from providing updates of location of a person(s), events, and sharing personal moments. Even different industries are utilizing social media as a platform for communication, information, and sales mediums. One industry, the health care field has seen a rise in the utilization of social media. For instance, an emerging population of physicians are using social media apps such as Snap Chat, Facebook, and YouTube to educate, display surgical, and medical procedures while being performed. In contrast, as there are positive aspects of utilizing social media, a negative trait of social media is invading and exposing individual’s privacy. As of recent, a New York licensed nurse had to surrender her nursing license and sentenced to 3 years of probation for “moral unfitness in the practice (Bowerman, 2016).” She took photos with her phone of two unconscious male patient’s genitalia and shared them with coworkers. This has become an increasing issue and as the utilization of social media in healthcare is increasing, many ethical issues are developing. For instance, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) was passed for the adoption of a national standard for electronic health care transactions and code sets, unique health identifiers,

Some may ask how do we manage? Some may ask what is it like? And then some may ask do we wish that we can switch races? In my opinion, those questions answered every day in the most unnoticed, silent ways. But this isn’t about my opinions or about my beliefs about this society and how they treat our kind. This is about the truth, the truth that everyone is so scared to bring up because they think it’s just going to cause even more problems than where it 's at right now. Well I’m here to say that it shouldn’t be that way. I’m here to say that all the cops who shot down multiple black people, innocent black people at that. And on top of that, those cops end up getting off without getting locked up. There were a total of 1,134 black people

In the last two years there has been a lot of media attention building about the killing of two young men, Trayvon Martin, was a 17-year-old African American from Miami Gardens, Florida, who was fatally shot by George Zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, in Sanford, Florida. and Michael Brown an unarmed black male shot by a police officers in Ferguson Missouri. These u that sparked and outrage in the African American communities. There are a lot of African American people who feel that the killings were unjust and not justified. There have been many protests around the united states because of this. There are many people taking to the streets, protesting, marching, holding up signs, and even getting on the ground with their hands

Racism will not go away, and as long as people are being racist there will be conflict between ethnicities. This past year there has been a lot of problems involving cops and black men. And what has been in the news a lot is the 2015 Baltimore protests. Riots breaking out because of Freddie Gray, a young african american man who died due to a spinal cord injury while in custody of police after being violently dragged screaming into one of their transport vans. Not many were happy with what happened. Wanting justice, the society took it into their own hands. “Streets in Baltimore looked like a war zone early Tuesday after a night of riots, fires and heartbreak.” (CNN). This was the start to a very controversial situation between cops and african americans. For the rest of the year, every little thing a cop did went viral knowing what happened is not right and justice needs to be served. But, during these protest the community came together and started what would be a trending tag, “Black lives matter” as it seems people would just pass over issues because of one's skin color. “This is a skewed portrayal of the protests; it is what the media chose to portray — the media that consumers bewilderingly seem to want. The real revolution is thousands of people across America standing in solidarity against police brutality. The real revolution is youth activists using their voices and their fearlessness to fight for the future of their generation. The real revolution is people of different races walking through the streets of inner city Baltimore, arms locked, chanting ’All night, all day, we will fight for Freddie

In 2015, the total number of people killed by police officers in the United States was 1,134, and of that number the death rate for young black men was fives times higher than that of white men (Historic US Event). These staggering numbers caused outbreaks among the community. Black Lives Matter protesters point out… “...numerous incidents as examples of a justice system that supports the systematic harassment and brutalization of black people and does not hold police officers accountable for violence (Opposing Viewpoints). The people were upset. The counts of police brutality were simply going unnoticed and no one had to answer for their actions except for the men who died at the hands of the police. Following the death of Michael Brown, the