Social Media And Other Technological Devices

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.

Social media is defined as websites and applications used for social networking, in other words it is a way for people to interact and express themselves without being face to face. Social media has become a large part of the life of teenagers, who make up most of the population of people who are subjected to using social media in their daily lives. Many college students are faced with balancing their social lives with school and even athletics making priorities a big dilemma for them. College students in America are affected in many ways by social media whether it be their social life, their happiness, or their grades.

New innovations to technology have provided people easier and more frequent access to social media sites and apps. According to the Canadian Internet Registration Authority in 2014 social media was most commonly accessed via laptops, tablets and mobile phones. Social media is the number one thing Canadians do online. (CIRA, 2014). Every social media site posts the number of users that it has on a worldwide scale. Given this is a Canadian proposed study here are some statistics of Canadian social media use. According to a survey done by Canadian’s internet.com Business in 2015 about 56% use Facebook, 16% use instagram, 30% Linkedin and 25% use Twitter. (McKinnon, 2015)

“There was a clear trend for those who used these technologies to receive for social support”, “Social Media As Community, Keith Hampton”. There are some students out there that don’t like to express their feelings face to face, so sometimes it is easier for them to do it over text. If we didn’t have access to technology then students wouldn’t be able to express their feelings the way they like, so the students may be moody and not want to do fun things. Hampton also states in “Social Media As Community” “The data backs it up. There is little evidence that social media is responsible for a tend of isolation, or a loss of intimacy and social support”. The internet isn’t the only thing that can isolate or make students have loss of social support, other things

Social media is described, by the Merriam-Webster dictionary (2015), as “forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)”. As few as 10 years ago the term social media was yet to be coined, but within that decade the use of these blogs, websites and sharing platforms has increased exponentially with no plateau in sight. From creating Instagram accounts for household pets, to sharing Halloween themed baking ideas over Pinterest, people today have access to social media outlets for almost everything. Today about 74% of people ages 18-65 use some form of a social networking site (Pew, 2014). Facebook takes the lead in social media usage with about 71% of those adults. LinkedIn and Pinterest are tied for second at 28% of users, 26% use Instagram, and Twitter falls last in the top 5 most used social medias with 23% of users (Pew, 2014). In September of 2013 the Pew Research Center measured that 90% of adults ages 18-29 used these social media outlets on a daily basis, which is an astonishing increase from the 9% that was measured in February 2005 (Pew, 2014). Due to the fact that young adults are increasingly involving themselves in these online platforms, it is very important to understand the long term and psychological effects (such as depression, social anxiety,

-Students copy the target language objective and complete the daily Do-Now. Students will respond to the question “What are the different types of social media? What are they used for? How often do you use them”

From the beginning of time man has had to deal with distractions of all shapes and sizes, but our current and future generations have a whole new and rather terrifying behemoth to deal with. In today’s world, it’s technology, namely cell phones and social media, that are front and center when you think of everyday distractions. For me however, this isn’t the case. It’s not that they aren’t a distraction, not by a long shot, but they are trumped by my own mind. I dont need any help getting distracted, my mind never fails to wander unless I’m meditating. Never. That being said, last night wasn’t that hard… The hardest part was feeling like you are missing something, though that seems obvious. To be more specific, it’s the basic human fear of the unknown. Your mind is apt to be filled with thoughts such as, “Oh, what if I’m missing out on a big event, or on some bad news that would be helpful to know about it.” This is because we are SO conditioned to be checking our texts and notifications consistently that when that part of our lives is missing, we feel like we are missing out. On what? We never even know, usually nothing.

content sharing, online learning, and much more (Cassidy, Griffin, Manolovitz, Shen, & Turney, 2011). As documented in recent research, students and faculty are using these emerging technologies and platforms in all facets of their

Technology truly rules over us, and the social media craze has continued to grow. The growth of technology has given us to opportunity to stay more connected with each other but it also has given us the ability to grow more lonely. If someone who is of the college age or younger was reading that sentence they would say,“What no way! My phone keeps me more connected!”, but when one truly looks at technology and its affect that it has on us, you can see that it has brought us further apart. Today, we spend more time on technology than truly being with the people who are in our everyday lives. I see this through the amount of time that I do spend on my cell phone, and with the obsession of social media that is present today.

The use of technology in todays society is taking place now more than ever. Technology has become one of the largest issues of debate, while being one of the biggest necessities to some people lives. It seems as if no matter where a someone may end up, some form of technology will most likely be present. Everyone has a cell phone now, restaurants have tablets that kids are allowed to play at the table, no matter where someone may go the chances of being around some form of electronic media is high. These things are some of what can cause issues in the everyday household. According to Pew Research Center’s Aaron Smith, roughly about 77 percent of American citizens own a smartphone, and about have of the nation owns a tablet.

I am eighteen years of age, throughout those years I have had the privilege of watching technology advance and grow throughout society. I have seen every type of phone out there as well as watched social media boom into existence. As a kid, I was so amazed how you could play even the simplest games on your phone. My parents both had Nokia cellphones with that ugly antenna that stuck out of the top. I also remember begging my mom to use her phone so I could play the game “Snake” on it. Today we make fun of those phones because they were virtually indestructible, unlike our fragile iPhones that if they are not in a case they are bound to break. So, throughout the years are phones have gotten smarter but easier to break. As for social media, I have seen the successful companies take off and continue to grow. As a teenager, I have personally been impacted by social media, it continues to grow around me and more and more are using them each day. Technology effects every person today whether you think it does or not.

Social-media has become a part of most college students lives, but does that affect how they do in school?

In many public places such as the mall, restaurant or birthday parties, many of us see technology and social media being used. The growth of technology and social media has evolved drastically and has pushed itself into the modern world and is used as an electronically communication tool. Information spreads and people retain information that is posted on social media. According to Pew Research Center’s article “Social Media Usage:2005-2015”, almost two-thirds of the American adults which composes about 65% of the population, uses social networking sites (Perrin, 2015). Two-thirds of the adult population reflects on the amplification of usage upon teens and upcoming generations. Perrin stresses that social media has affected politics, work, communication patterns, receiving and sharing information about health (2015). In the health care field, technology and social media has been incorporated to be used in being beneficial such as increasing awareness and education on new or known diseases. However, with positive aspects, there are also negative impacts on the use of technology and social media. Ethical and legal means have been placed and integrated into the system to counteract the negative impacts of technology and social media. In this paper, we will explore and discuss safeguards, advantages, disadvantages, legal and ethical concerns regarding the protection of patient’s privacy.

Our society is filled to the brim with visual images. Some more noticeable than others, yet they all impact our minds and thoughts differently even if the ideal is not visible on the surface. Gender, race, age, social class, etc., they all come into factor when affected by images of society. Although they are just images, current day society has learned to take pictures and warp them into anything they want to create. Some see these new advances of Photoshop and editing as a form of art, signifying a voice in the direction of the image. The conflicting issue is some images are altered to make you believe it is real, therefor making it difficult to know what was altered and what was not. With current day technology and social media, there is a constant push on what you should look like, dress like, be like and most of the time they aren’t even real images due to all its alterations on the original picture. Advertisements and social media of our generation are the true reasonings behind many young women’s insecurities and down falls due to the larger institutional powers at play all within a single picture. American Apparel displays a beautiful, tall and skinny model in the windows of their store front to portray to the young females of our generation the ideal image and style one should portray in order to fulfill this “American” style.

In the United States, Facebook has by far remained the most popular social media, followed by LinkedIn, Pinterest, Instagram, and Twitter (Duggan et al, 2014). Among all the online adults, 71% are using Facebook, 28% are using LinkedIn and Pinterest, 26% are using Instagram, and 23% are using Twitter (Chart 1). On the other hand, among all the American adults aged 18+, 58% use Facebook, 23% on LinkedIn, 22% on Pinterest, 21% on Instagram, and 19% on Twitter (Chart 2).