Social Media As The Truest Form Of Obtaining Information

She comments that “Humankind lingers unregenerately in Plato's Cave, still reveling, its age-old habit, in mere images of the truth.” (3). “The Plato’s Cave,” examines the theme - the illusion of images. She compares photographs to the shadow in the Plato’s Cave, the prisoners or the human see the shadow on the wall and is trapped to believe what they see is the truth. Pointed, such comment leads me to think of the many people who watch the reports on the news and without individual judgment of the reliability. Like the image of the cave, the image on the television might be merely a carefully manipulated fallacy. Indeed, human is too easily tricked to trust the image; however, the image is only an image of

A cave is media in the sense that they can control how people may perceive the world and society. The outside of the cave is what reality actually is while the prisoners in the cave only see the shadows, which can be seen as what other people want them to see. The media outlets control what we can and cannot see. Filters also controls what we can see by basing the filtering on past searches. In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, Plato has the belief that what we perceive and see is not reality, but a copy and lesser version of reality. The shadows the prisoners see is what the media wants us to perceive as reality instead of the truth. The way media outlets display their articles and information, often dictates how someone will perceive something. It may not be the information that they are putting out is false, but it is information they decide to leave out or the way in which they

In the modern world people operate their businesses and practically live their lives through the Internet, the use of social media, and easily obtainable information. Although easy access to nearly everything and everyone has many advantages, there are plenty disadvantages that accompany social media and easily obtainable information. If the world only knew how becoming aware of the rewards and drawbacks of social media and the ability to access information with ease people may change how they practice and consume it, especially when understanding the need to further question the reliability of their sources. It is important to understand the advantages,

In “Faux Friendship,” associate professor William Deresiewics discusses the affect that social media has on our society. Deresiewics originally published this piece in The Chronicles of Higher Education in December 2009, but this piece has been published in The Nation, The American Scholar, The London Review of Books, and The New York Times. Deresiewics’ attempts to convince readers that social media take away our ability to build relationships in person. Despite Deresiewics’ appeal to ethos and this rebuttal to the opposition, “Faux Friendship” should not be considered for Culture Comment’s top prize for persuasive essays due to its attack on the reader and overpowering assumptions.

Oedipus’s fate-filled journey and the gods’ indifference towards his suffering all correlate with the theme of a manufactured reality, one that Plato covers in his work, “The Allegory of the Cave.” The shadows in the cave represent the manufactured reality that is created by the gods, Oedipus’s predetermined destiny, and his own false sense of security. In the same way, modern day society constantly puts forward content through social media that creates a false perception of certain topics. Without knowing it, the people of this world are constantly blocked by a “screen” of lies that build up to create a reality that is essentially manufactured by society. Instead of searching for the truth, people often believe only what they want to believe, and hear only what they want to hear. The real news is present throughout society, but most of the time, it is selective news that is manipulated to influence opinions. Therefore, in order to receive truthful information, people must remove the mask that social media has placed over society so that the truth underneath can be

In Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, he describes a world where prisoners live chained in a cave. From the day we were born, we were told many things and were occupied into the day’s society that we cannot see what truly is right and wrong. In the movie, the shadows in the cave construct reality for the prisoners. One of the prisoners breaks free and leaves the cave. He realizes that someone else has controlled his life and disguised the truth about a new world outside the cave. This illustrates some of the social issues that are being constantly happened in our world today. We are the reflection of the prisoners who are occupied from the truth by the media, government, and even religion. We are being controlled by the media because we can see

David Shields writes in Reality Hunger ‘We seek new means of creating the real’ (54). These new means of creating they appears to be linked to more conscious manipulation of the real and true, concepts relevant to social networking. The social networking affects the sense of reality, truth, identity and connects with others and shows that virtual relationships are based on blurring reality. Online, people have the opportunity to present an unreal image of themselves,

One reason that social media is good for the world is that it"helps boost a person's satisfaction with life" as stated by Carol Coleman in the story Social Networking Is Postitive for Society.I think thats important because i don't like seeing people always depressed.Another reason that social media is postitive for the world is that"students use social media sites to discuss school work with others and to chat about educational topics".as stated in paragraph 4 I do that myself if I dont know how to do my math I snapchat one of my friends to get help.The last reason that social networking is good for the world is that it helps police officers find criminals because "Alot

Social media, what was made to be a simple way to keep up with friends, now controls most of our lives. I don't think I can even tell you how many times I came so close to deleting all my social media, but I just can't bring myself to do it. Watching the apps dance around on my phone, I just can't press the little X. What if's start to run through my head, 'What if I miss something important?' 'What if someone tries to get in contact with me?' and so on. Now don't get me wrong, social media was a brilliant idea. In just a few clicks you can reconnect with people from your past. Thanks to Snapchat I talk to three of my cousins every single day and Instagram is how I knew who my current best friend is.

Never before, in the history of time, has our ability to collaborate and communicate on a massive scale been so achievable. (Papay & Timby, 2014)

changed. This small introduction will outline some of the major breakthroughs in the evolution of communication and the way we socialise.

Social media is not real life. If we know this, then why do we spend hours and hours of our day in this false reality? Is this the most fulfilling and productive way we can spend our time on earth? Social media, in the current state it is in, a system based on numbers and money, is not real life. It is a system based on likes and dislikes, social validation, and success found in how many followers one has. We base our opinions of people as a whole by only looking at the orchestrated part they allow others to see. I was born into the screen dominated age and taught at a young age that in order to succeed, I must mold myself to society's standards. By separating myself from social media, I am taking myself out of the sculpting studio.

It is not hard to observe that new technologies are fundamentally altering the ways in which we communicate in

In this world of technology there are many things that affect us mentally and physically. According to Moradi (2014) Imagine a life without technology, try to imagine life without our phones being able to wake us up in the morning or without using our computers. It would be so different then what we are used to doing every day. In reality, nowadays everyone relies on technology. Throughout history technology has increased dramatically, the increased amount of technology that is incorporated into a Smart Phone now a day is incredible.

Whether a healthcare organization is supports unions or is against them, it should have a policy on unionism, and this policy should be communicated to its employees. Fried and Fottler (2015) explain that a positive labor-management relationship begins with this policy. A unionization policy will often include policies concerning wages, benefits, hours and conditions of employment, which Gamble (2011) says are the most common reasons for unionization. With clear policies and procedures regarding unionization, an employee can find the information they need regarding the most common reasons for unionization and proceed through the correct channels for change. A policy also shows that management understands that each employee is important and deserves respect and that time and thought goes into employee relations (Fried and Fottler, 2015). An employee can also see and understand the implications of unionization with a clearly outlined unionization policy (Gamble, 2011).