The Importance Of The Internet And Social Media

Out of the variety of news sources such as TV, radio, or newspapers, one of the popular sources in today’s world is social media. People are getting addicted to and can’t live without social media such as Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram. They use social media as of where they can post their status but also where they can receive a lot of different news. While social media are spreading any kinds of news such as trend, celebrity or even politics, people easily get the information that is not true called “fake news.” The fake news raises the major problem in social media as the news source. Once people see the news, they tend to believe and share it. Liking can spread out fake news in a second. When people like the news, the activity

Social media has given the human race an unprecedented amount of access to news and information. However, the validity and vetting of this information is often questionable at best. The emergence of websites such as Breitbart, Occupy Democrats, and TheBlaze have given way to a constant stream of partisan

Most everyone has some form of social media. Whether it be Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram people have a way of communicating and getting news from all around the world. Unfortunately, this news is not always correct or trustworthy. Many people are not attuned to reading long articles or papers and just want the short story. Social media readily gives them shortened and condensed stories one after the other. Therefore, “traditional media has to adapt to the audience’s new

Ever since the beginning of the human race, people have been innovating and inventing, finding new and better ways to do old things. Today, the proudest achievement of human ingenuity is the internet. With it, all of humanity is connected, to both each other, and all the information they could ever need about anything. Most are welcoming this new wave of available information, especially as it becomes easier to navigate with the help of growing search engines such as Google. However, some are starting to recognize cons to the new system in place, claiming that instantly available information is detrimental to human thought.

Thesis: Dissemination of news through social media allows for rapid distribution and incredible accessibility, but can lead to decreased understanding, stifled discussion, and even the propagation of fake news stories.

Millions of people are posting pictures of themselves and their life experiences online for the world to see. And of course, people only post things that will make themselves seem more cool, adventures, and pretty, basically, a better person. People make an effort to present themselves based on what others like to gain popularity. This effort to be “perfect” is now being seen through people in the real world. People view others based on what they see of them online rather than in the real world. In the articles, “Should We Ditch the Idea of Privacy?” by Don Tapscott and “#Me: Instagram Narcissism and the scourge of the Selfie” by John Paul Titlow. Both authors show us without question, how the internet and social media have impacted the ways we view others and how we present ourselves to others negatively.

In recent years the media has become, to many, unreliable when it comes to its deliverance of the news because of its strong bias and because the media, including social media outlets just as much as news networks and cites, has different ways of interpreting a story; for example some outlets such as MSNBC are known for their liberal views,

In his article “How Social Media is Ruining Politics”, Nicolas Carr argues that the media of today is more “encompassing and controlling than ever before. (Carr 1)” Media can be manipulated in a way that allows a candidate to have a perceived excellent reputation. However, it can also provide the candidate with a disadvantage by misrepresenting their ideas. As James Fallows, author of “ Learning to love the (Shallow, Divisive, Unreliable) New Media”, points out, “If ideas are misrepresented, it becomes easier to lie. (Fallows 4)” Candidates can easily change the context of their message to make it more appealing on a social media platform. this change causes political issues to become an easily overlooked. He concludes that social media is primarily “used to create a warm emotional connection for a candidate rather than keeping the focus on issues that would help our country.(Carr)” In his article, “Beware of Online Filter Bubbles”, Eli Pariser expresses similar concerns to Carr. He concedes that popular internet mediums like Yahoo and Google “filter search results to fit the needs and intrests of the user. (Pariser)” The websites “filter in what users like and filter out what they dislike. (Pariser)” His concern is that “online media personalization causes important issues to be overlooked easily. (Pariser)” His research provides a

The adversarial media's’ role as framers in a representative democracy causes increased polarization in the United States. Those on either side of the political spectrum are already divided and news outlets take advantage of this divide, feeding on selective exposure. On social media, many people only see opinions which confirm or support their own, limiting their range of perspectives on important issues. Televised news outlets are culprits of the same crime, with some supporting extreme conservative ideas and others extreme liberal ideas. Very rarely is there a story that is looked at from multiple perspectives. Thus, the country becomes polarized on a variety of issues, especially those which get a lot of media attention, which are usually

Giving users the capability to choose and select what appears on their media pages encourages bias by allowing the formation of fragmented social groups that have polarized opinions on specific issues and current events (Bakshy, Messing, and Adamic 2015). In response to these tendencies, news reporting agencies have learned to adapt and launch digital forms of mainstream media to propagate their news targeted at social media outlets, giving them the freedom to spread the agenda they want to communicate, knowing that their target audience can easily find and share them using social media (Calais Guerra, et.al 2011) further propagating bias news reporting.

Facebook is a worldwide acknowledged social media service, that because of its sheer size, it possesses the ultimate power to influence and potentially morph its user’s perspectives, by simply exposing them to biased articles, headlines and even messages, motivating them to act on what they are displayed with. Author, Farhad Manjoo of the deprecatory article ‘Facebook 's bias is built in - and worth watching’, expresses his fear of Facebook’s ability to control the news; ‘Facebook is the world’s most influential source of news’.

The fact that news circulation has become an automated processes with the specific goal to increase viewership and make money off of ad sales, complicates Zuckerberg’s assertion that Facebook is neutral. It appears that the site depends on algorithms that provide users with posts and articles that they think they will like most, and thus, they are biased in that they function to feed into each viewer’s individual bias. Furthermore, these algorithms do not have the consciousness of a human, nor the ability to discern between real and fake news media, at least not in a way that is effective, yet. Also, according it Innis, who argues that media and technology are inherently biased because they favor certain knowledge and contain preformed tendencies of how the media and technology will be used, Facebook biased. As a non-durable media, Facebook has a bias towards space, in this case the monetized spread news articles. As such, it experiences great discontinuity and is preoccupied with the present. This account or the fact that topical and fake news was such an issue during the election. People wanted to use the breath of Facebook to make money on financially viable, yet false,

At the heart of marketing, the core function is to create and deliver value to the consumer. The rise of the internet has seen the rise of the global consumer. Meaning businesses are not restricted by geographical location, increasing the speed and amount of potential customers within markets, presenting both a challenge and an opportunity for marketers. However since the rise of the internet and social media, Poiesz and van Raaij (2007) state that in increasingly crowded markets, and increasingly sophisticated customer databases each competing against one another, the creation of value is becoming more difficult for brand managers. Brands can only compete through lowering their prises or consistently adding value to their products. The problem behind this is that the creating of value is becoming exhausted and brands are running of ways they can increase value as brands can no longer rely upon extracting costs from value chain activities – efficiency savings − as their main source of value creation (Prahalad and Ramaswamy, 2004).

The recent surge in popularity of social media comes with a price: fake news. Fake news is defined as news or media that has been altered or modified. Journalists have begun to analyze why that fake news exists and why it continues exist. Two authors, Eoin O’Carroll and Kevin D. Williamson, both have written articles about fake news. Eoin O’Carroll’s article “How Information Overload Helps Spread Fake News,” discusses how the media has bombarded us with news stories, blurring the distinct lines between real and fake news. Kevin D. Williamson, a journalist for the National Review, writes in his article “‘Fake News, Media and Voters: Shared Reality Must Be Acknowledged” that the news is not fake; it just does not align with one’s personal beliefs. Both authors successfully appeal to their audiences’ emotions and feelings, but O’Carroll is more likely to succeed than Williamson in persuading his audience to try and combat fake news because the writer presents himself as someone the intended readers will more readily identify with and offers evidence that his readers will find more compelling.

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).