The Realm Of Social Media News

Social media can be multifarious and beneficial in numbers ways, allowing people to connect and share ideas, as well as accessing information that would otherwise be difficult or delayed to obtain, such as pre-internet. The internet has grown in a way that perhaps most did not expect; however, this phenomenon has become part of our daily life both positive and negative. Culturally we are hooked on social media; therefore, the information we obtained is usually through news platforms via internet, because social media is so easily accessible, anyone can report false news information.

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

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

They may not always be accurate but they will tell you as much information as possible. The news station has their own journalist they send out to gather small and big stories also, the major events that will impact our daily living the most. Social media is just a way for the news to get out to mainly young adults who may not watch the news. On social media, they say the same thing but people may interpret each story differently. For example, the fake news did not change the results of the 2016 presidential election, according to researchers at Stanford and New York University. The study shows that fake news stories about Republican, Donald Trump far surpassed similar stories about Democrat, Hillary Clinton. Only 8 percent of voters actually read those stories, even fewer remember or believed what they were reading them. Agreeable but fake Donald Trump news was shared about 30 million times on Facebook during the campaign, while the fake pro-Clinton news was shared about seven million times. In the end, there was still no wrong information being given to the public. When the media informs they also interpret in their own way but so do the people when the read

Monica Anderson and Andrea Caumont investigate how social media sites are reshaping the news and their effectiveness in engaging their audience. The authors posed five questions in their article, considering how social media users participate in and discover news, as well as the impact of social media on discussion of news events. Anderson and Caumont found that social media users are very likely to share news stories, discuss the events, and even share their own coverage of a news event. They also found that users often spend more time on a news site if they arrived there directly, rather than through a social media site. Finally, the authors state that social media can stifle one’s willingness to share their own opinion and discuss a news event. The authors obtained these conclusions by utilizing data from the Pew Research Center. This source is useful to my research topic as it sheds light on the ability of social media to encourage discussion of news stories.

62% of people get their news off social media, but does social media give you all the information that news anchors do? Some news cast gives you everything on Black Lives Matter and some news cast gives you their opinion which can sometimes be biased. Most people read one news article and go on about their opinion on the subject, but if they went out and explored different news articles would they still have the same opinion?

In the article, “Don’t blame social media for fake news”, Mike Hamm is defending social media such as Facebook, twitter,etc. He talks about social media only being a place for people to share their own opinions about news and not being a place to get actual facts. Hamm describes social media as a “coffee shop” (Hamm, Mike no.5, pg6). He says all social media is, is a place for people to gossip and eventually, there will be a better social media website to take the place of Facebook, twitter, Myspace, etc. With that being said, Hamm does realize that social media does have biased news articles however, he does not believe that they contribute to the decisions of its viewers.

As technology has advanced and people have become more connected through social media, news has been able to spread further and faster than ever before, leading to a more informed society. However, while news is expected to be correct and accurate, when it is flawed, real world consequences occur. The first and most understandable reason that news is flawed is that it is rushed. Competition has been introduced to the mainstream media in the form of social media. However, as Molly Wood from cnet puts it, “It's fast, but it's bad.” Known as breaking news, these rushed stories are generally inaccurate as they are being reported before the events have fully unfolded. Information is gathered

Whether it is news channels on the television or whether it is Twitter and Facebook news, the public will always have a way to find out current reports. Since society has become so dependent on technology, a greater amount of individuals get their actual news online and especially through social media. As many of the public know, you cannot trust what people online are saying. Since individuals are so accustomed to getting the news online, many of them tend to believe what they just happen to scroll across on Twitter and Facebook or any other sort of social media. Finding actual facts and truths on the news have become so difficult now, due to all of the millions of different sites and places where we can get our news from. The news online tend to be biased and untrue due to how openly and freely individuals can create their own site and “reports” on current events such as a real news channels would. Social media has just made it more complicated to find the actual accuracy of current events but with enough research, dedication, and using the SMELL test, finding the right information would not be as

Clickbait has astounding effects on the brain that most people don’t notice, and you won’t believe. People nowadays spend a lot of time on their smartphones and computers which means that they are reading more news, unfortunately not all the things we read are true, but far to often we fall victim to perpetuated fake news made to earn ad revenue. These “Journalists” that write these articles also use different tricks to lure people in hence the name clickbait. Things that you may read in articles on social media can affect how we think, playing tricks on our minds, and can are immoral business. This is an issue that everyone should care about yet were all too busy to notice it.

“22 Tips to Gain Weight FAST!” “You’ll Never Look at Barbie Dolls the Same Way After You See THIS Picture!” “Insurance Companies HATE this new trick!” We’ve all seen articles with similar headlines. In fact, they’ve gotten so common that we rarely think anything of them anymore. They’re all over the Internet - on Facebook, on Twitter, on Instagram. However, although they may seem rather pointless or annoying, there is a reason that journalists use clickbait to headline their articles. Justin Bariso argues that although nearly nobody enjoys seeing clickbait, journalists utilize it simply because it is effective, and people should be more understanding about it, as it is not pointlessly annoying. He strengthens his argument throughout the article

Eli Pariser from TED Talk, “What Facebook and Google are Hiding from the World” reveals Facebook, Google and other major companies are notorious for keeping track of what type of content gets the user’s attention. Whether it be a local news article or a follow up on the presidential debate, these websites keep track and collect your data. From there on, the websites tailor their content to what they think the user will be most interested in. Depending on what the user’s past history, these websites can pick and choose what they show, which in turn can affect what the user is exposed to. Though it sounds like the perfect algorithm to customize content to the user’s interests, it keeps the user in a bubble and halts any change and growth, and limits their perspective. Another example of this, would be that media filters the content they present. Sandy Donovan claims, “ So the media has to choose which stories to cover...Those choices largely depend on what the media outlet’s audience wants to hear.” (Media, 9). Donovan is essentially saying if the media was geared to a specific subject, they would not be able to cover every piece of information, therefore they choose what is worth covering. Unfortunately, in this fast-paced day and age, headlines are what draw people in, and that does not necessarily mean that article of information is important

In an internet-savvy era where news outlets have the power to reach almost every inch of the planet in a matter of seconds, it is often debated whether media publications should present their audience with what they desire, or what they should care about. With a wider reach, but also more competition than ever before, news editors must carefully curate their content in order to win the clicks, views and readership of the digital audience, thus leaving them with the question of what to share. In the age of digital media, a majority of publications are sustained from advertising revenue generated by clicks and views, which results in an abundance of ‘clickbait’ articles centred around the easily shareable content that people want to consume,

The effects of mass media and social media have changed the way people have experienced presidential campaigns in many ways. With the development of new technologies through the last hundred years many different ways of experiencing the campaigns have taken place. Newspapers, radio, television, internet and social media websites have changed the ways we all have experienced elections.

From the words of United States President Barack Obama "Call your members of Congress. Write them an email. Tweet it using the hashtag #My2K." (Coffee). Social media has played an increasing and larger part in today's government. Social media has the power to influence elections and connect the people to the policy makers in new ways.