Social and Political Implication of Social Media
SOCIAL AND POLITICAL IMPLICATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA
A SEMINAR PRESENTED BY
ADEBAYO, SEGUN
MATRIC NO: 173998
TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
FACULTY OF ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
COURSE: PHI 713- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
LECTURER IN CHARGE
PROFESSOR DIPO IRELE
June 2013
INTRODUCTION:
Communication is as old as humankind, it is the basis of social interactions and life blood of human societies, we can say without communication. Each individual would merely be an island isolated from all other such islands, communication in a simple sense is the process of transferring meaning in the form of ideas or information from a person called the sender to another or people called receivers.1
The human life depends on communication to attain their full potentials, communication is also a social necessity without it there cannot be real community or society because it is the link between individuals who constitute a community and the link between community in the formation of a larger whole-a metropolis, a province or a nation, society as a whole cannot survive today if they are not properly informed about political affairs, international and local events, all these functions are perform through a media which are the vehicles of transmitting information.
In essence, when people communicate with one another, they do so by a medium, some device or process through which they convey information, these means which people use is called social media.2
This paper will pretend a short historical back ground of social media, the development of social media will be summarized, and much attention will be on the current means of such media which has taken a paradigm shift as a result of technological advancement and modernism such as internet, home video, news paper, magazines, e.t.c the social and political implications will be critically explored, for the umpteenth time we should have it in mind that social media has ethical end epistemological implication
A SEMINAR PRESENTED BY
ADEBAYO, SEGUN
MATRIC NO: 173998
TO THE DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
FACULTY OF ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN
COURSE: PHI 713- SOCIAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
LECTURER IN CHARGE
PROFESSOR DIPO IRELE
June 2013
INTRODUCTION:
Communication is as old as humankind, it is the basis of social interactions and life blood of human societies, we can say without communication. Each individual would merely be an island isolated from all other such islands, communication in a simple sense is the process of transferring meaning in the form of ideas or information from a person called the sender to another or people called receivers.1
The human life depends on communication to attain their full potentials, communication is also a social necessity without it there cannot be real community or society because it is the link between individuals who constitute a community and the link between community in the formation of a larger whole-a metropolis, a province or a nation, society as a whole cannot survive today if they are not properly informed about political affairs, international and local events, all these functions are perform through a media which are the vehicles of transmitting information.
In essence, when people communicate with one another, they do so by a medium, some device or process through which they convey information, these means which people use is called social media.2
This paper will pretend a short historical back ground of social media, the development of social media will be summarized, and much attention will be on the current means of such media which has taken a paradigm shift as a result of technological advancement and modernism such as internet, home video, news paper, magazines, e.t.c the social and political implications will be critically explored, for the umpteenth time we should have it in mind that social media has ethical end epistemological implication
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