Does Social Media Impact Freedom Of Speech, Politics, And Personal Expression?
How does social media impact freedom of speech, privacy, journalism, politics and personal expression? Should governments restrict access to social media, the internet and communications?
Social media is unique and extremely appealing to everyone form of social interaction, the first platform allowing “many to many” relations since the letters and telephone (they permit only one to one or one to many relation).
According to the Clay Shirky: How social media can make history, (Shirky, C.) , social media open a new era of social interaction, individual journalism, open speech and personal expression. Furthermore, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, very fast replace the traditional news outlets and transform the individual …show more content…
“…I said that livestream could turn the web into a colossal TV network, but I believe it does something else, because after watching people using it, not only to cover things but to express, to organize themselves politically…” (Torturra, B., 2014) .
Nevertheless, the effect from social media on our lives and societies is not only limited to open speech, transparencies and learning, it has also a dark side: trolling, bulling, manipulation, targeted censorship, propaganda.
I believe the social media provides all of us with unique platform where we could make humanity a better place and more transparent, in the same time due the lack of high moral and ethical knowledge and values we allow also this new technology to be used as weapon against ourselves, sometime I imagine a picture that a person today who uses social media actively is like individual who point a handgun in his/hers …show more content…
(...) The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward. (...) Every change that is made in the subject of a propagandist message must always emphasize the same conclusion. The leading slogan must of course be illustrated in many ways and from several angles, but in the end, one must always return to the assertion of the same formula…” (Britannica, T. E.,
Social media is unique and extremely appealing to everyone form of social interaction, the first platform allowing “many to many” relations since the letters and telephone (they permit only one to one or one to many relation).
According to the Clay Shirky: How social media can make history, (Shirky, C.) , social media open a new era of social interaction, individual journalism, open speech and personal expression. Furthermore, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, very fast replace the traditional news outlets and transform the individual …show more content…
“…I said that livestream could turn the web into a colossal TV network, but I believe it does something else, because after watching people using it, not only to cover things but to express, to organize themselves politically…” (Torturra, B., 2014) .
Nevertheless, the effect from social media on our lives and societies is not only limited to open speech, transparencies and learning, it has also a dark side: trolling, bulling, manipulation, targeted censorship, propaganda.
I believe the social media provides all of us with unique platform where we could make humanity a better place and more transparent, in the same time due the lack of high moral and ethical knowledge and values we allow also this new technology to be used as weapon against ourselves, sometime I imagine a picture that a person today who uses social media actively is like individual who point a handgun in his/hers …show more content…
(...) The receptive powers of the masses are very restricted, and their understanding is feeble. On the other hand, they quickly forget. Such being the case, all effective propaganda must be confined to a few bare essentials and those must be expressed as far as possible in stereotyped formulas. These slogans should be persistently repeated until the very last individual has come to grasp the idea that has been put forward. (...) Every change that is made in the subject of a propagandist message must always emphasize the same conclusion. The leading slogan must of course be illustrated in many ways and from several angles, but in the end, one must always return to the assertion of the same formula…” (Britannica, T. E.,