Social Media Influence On American Culture
How does social media affect the creation of news article in an American culture?
In the twenty-first century, more than half of the world’s population spend most of their time online surfing the internet. Each person who spend a lot of time on the internet owns at least one social media account in the cyber world. The cyber world consists of many different websites but the most frequently used are facebook, twitter, and youtube and these websites all originate from the United States and happened to spread widely around the world. Social media is a great tool of communication where one can spread information across the internet yet it is very bias. With most of the social media originating from America, the perspectives on the news is seen …show more content…
It has a direct impact to a range of the American society, from teenagers to the elderly. It is one of the easiest ways for people to make connections to one another. Eventually social media has affected everyone’s lives. People spend more than seven hours online. The access and use of internet become our first priority. According to a new study of news consumption by the Pew Research Center, the majority of social media users go online for news consumption rather than reading an actual newspaper. With the evolution of technology, social media is now used as a medium to share the news. With social media playing a large role in society, these days the journalists decide to use the information from social media as references and evidences in their news report, since they need some elements to support their claims and arguments to present their news. It is clear that the journalists are not supposed to use their own opinions on the news. Therefore they use other people’s opinion as it represent an individual’s viewpoint from different aspects to the news. According to a new study of news consumption by the Pew Research Center, the social media users go online for news consumption instead of reading the actual …show more content…
At this moment, social media is easy to access and it has created a long term impact on journalism.
because social media is easy to access
Social media had a long term impact on journalism since the journalists are getting news online from different social media sites
Only had there been a few instances in which the news press released news that were inaccurate. For instance, in the mid of 2013, there was an event called the Boston Marathon Bombing. This event is an example of social media influenced the creation of news where the social media user write . There are a lot of misinformation and distortion about an event.
The Boston Marathon
In the twenty-first century, more than half of the world’s population spend most of their time online surfing the internet. Each person who spend a lot of time on the internet owns at least one social media account in the cyber world. The cyber world consists of many different websites but the most frequently used are facebook, twitter, and youtube and these websites all originate from the United States and happened to spread widely around the world. Social media is a great tool of communication where one can spread information across the internet yet it is very bias. With most of the social media originating from America, the perspectives on the news is seen …show more content…
It has a direct impact to a range of the American society, from teenagers to the elderly. It is one of the easiest ways for people to make connections to one another. Eventually social media has affected everyone’s lives. People spend more than seven hours online. The access and use of internet become our first priority. According to a new study of news consumption by the Pew Research Center, the majority of social media users go online for news consumption rather than reading an actual newspaper. With the evolution of technology, social media is now used as a medium to share the news. With social media playing a large role in society, these days the journalists decide to use the information from social media as references and evidences in their news report, since they need some elements to support their claims and arguments to present their news. It is clear that the journalists are not supposed to use their own opinions on the news. Therefore they use other people’s opinion as it represent an individual’s viewpoint from different aspects to the news. According to a new study of news consumption by the Pew Research Center, the social media users go online for news consumption instead of reading the actual …show more content…
At this moment, social media is easy to access and it has created a long term impact on journalism.
because social media is easy to access
Social media had a long term impact on journalism since the journalists are getting news online from different social media sites
Only had there been a few instances in which the news press released news that were inaccurate. For instance, in the mid of 2013, there was an event called the Boston Marathon Bombing. This event is an example of social media influenced the creation of news where the social media user write . There are a lot of misinformation and distortion about an event.
The Boston Marathon