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    Social Media Addiction

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    Although many people are addicted to the internet and social media, one girl experienced it in a rather harsh way. The now fifteen-year-old girl started “acting out” when she was just thirteen in the year of 2015. Her parents then turned off the service to her phone and took it away; but she would just buy a old or used phone from her friends, any phone she could get her hands on. In addition, she would stay up until 4:30 in the morning just looking at her feed, she also had multiple accounts for

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    How well are you actually protected on social media? Many people have mixed emotions about social media. While there are many advantages to using social media, there are also some disadvantages as well. According to the article “Could You Become a Mean Meme?” by Kristen Lewis, “Even the strictest privacy settings aren’t foolproof.” Thankfully, however, there are ways to protect yourself. Social media allows us to do many things that were previously thought to be impossible. Not only can you

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    Media Bias In The Media

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    campaign trail that leading up to it, brought the long existing issue of media bias our society, into the light. For generations, the American people and all who live in our nation have relied on platforms of mass media, such as the news, to inform them of the events occurring in the world, and for generations people have listened to media that is meant to be unbiased—so what changed? While there are some well-known media outlets whose bias is traditional and understood (such as the New York Times

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    1. How has the increase in digital media sources - the smorgasbord of ideas and news – work to distort our grasp on the truth? Digital media tend to derive from the truth. It doesn’t challenge the facts to prove them right, but tweak them to question the value of its sincerity. The amount of information available to the public increased since the existence of multiple media outlets and companies. Psychologist conducted a study, which proves the new media’s inability to proving factual evidence

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    today is communicated through media. Media is the most powerful and influential force in the country. The media are powerful agents of socialization and they set the standard that majority follow. The power giving to American media has allowed them to be very effective using propaganda as strategy, the media tend to say they serve to relieve social conflicts into minimum. We clearly see that the media promote social conflicts by separating class. The image that media has created in the mind of masses

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    If social media and technology can be a great threat to the national security of United States, imagine what it can do to a normal person? Now a days, wherever you go people are hooked on their social media and technology. The social lives of people have been intertwined with the unrealistic virtual world created by social media and technology. Technology and social media may have successfully been used for activism, but it has made people addicted and fake through the use of social media. The future

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    Media is the most effective method of mass communication. There are many different sources of mass media; broadcast, advertising, digital, hypermedia, interactive, multimedia, new media, news media, print media, published media, recorded media and social media(Dictionary.com 2017). Considering all the different forms media can take, it isn’t all too shocking that media has had an influence on deviant behaviors. The media’s influence though, is attributed to promoting deviance rather than reducing

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    displayed in the mass media is conditioned by wealth and power, so as a result of the concentration of power and the official censorship done by the government and corporate sources; the media follows the ideas of the elite. In order to deliver messages that support the elite’s beliefs, the media goes through five different filters that determine the information presented, this are ownership of media, funding, sourcing, flak, and fear. First, when referring to the ownership of media, it is important

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    Evolution of Media in Presidential Campaigns 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. Between 1960 and today, there have been many milestones in mass media and the

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    development of social media, people can chat with others in everywhere and what they need is only a mobile phone. According to the demographics of social media users (2012), there are 67% of internet users who use any social networking sites. Dave (2017) also provides some data in his research shows that there are over 1870 million active users are using Facebook which is the top 1 social media app in the world. Unluckily, according to Matthew et al. (2012), with the popularity of social media and the number

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