References: Kassim, S. (2013). Twitter Revolution: How the Arab Spring Was Helped By Social Media . Retrieved from policymic.com: http://www.policymic.com/articles/10642/twitter-revolution-how-the-arab-spring-was-helped-by-social-media…
Social media is channel of a communication where people interact either between two persons or among a small group. In addition, social media allows individuals to share ideas and opinions as well expressing their perspectives easily. Examples of social media are: Facebook, Twitter, and WhatsApp (Robert, 2006). Information on social media is controlled by the public or private owners. This is because any posted information can be viewed by a large audience. The audience can make comments and share it with other…
Social media makes us more aware about what is going on in our own society and in other countries, without social media sites like “youtube, facebook” etc, many of us would not even know about the Malaysian jet line that went missing over a month ago. Many of users rely on social media to keep “up to date” on important news that is going on in the world.…
Technology has advanced over the past decades, rapidly influencing today’s social culture. Social media is still developing into many different forms. Those forms can include Smartphone’s, computers, laptops, television, and tablets. Whichever the object is, it has also become a form of communication in many different ways. So much of people’s lives are impacted by social media, and there are many debates that whether or not it has a positive or negative effects on society.…
When the Middle East experienced its revolutionary wave, modern communication gave the power of content to the revolutionaries. Possessing this power allowed activists to exploit networks such as Twitter and Facebook to disseminate their plight and bypass censorship. The question posed in this new age is whether the operations of revolution are more effective today than during the time of Gil Scott-Heron and the Civil Rights Movement. Utilizing only print and televised media, the success of the Civil Rights Movement was driven by discrete motivations, unity, and strong leadership. However, the Arab Spring, notably in Egypt and Syria, has lacked focused change and unity, expecting social media to compensate for these shortcomings.…
In the second article “Tweet Like an Egyptian” by Kevin Clarke, he discusses the role of internet in the freedom campaigns and protests in Arab countries. The people who joined the revolution in Egypt and Tunisia organized themselves and established authority by using the latest social networking technologies of the Internet. It is also through the World Wide Web where they learned how important it is to have their opinions and thoughts fully expressed and welcomed. Clarke focuses more on the people in Egypt and how they are using the Internet to question and challenge authority in…
Social media is an incredibly powerful tool when it comes to publicising information quickly and adequately to a substantial group of audience. There are a several number of…
Malcolm Gladwell in his article “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted” explains the point that why we don’t need to tweet the revolution on social media. To prove his point, he takes the example of a Black revolution from 1960. Malcolm points out, how a revolution started by four students became huge without the help of any social media. Malcolm also believes in power of social media. Any revolution can turn into bigger size, if social media is used, according to Malcolm. Malcolm states that Facebook and Twitter are tools for keeping up with the…
The focus of this research study is the influence of social media on mental health and psychosocial development. Media multitasking, usually with social media, has been linked to higher rates of depression, anxiety and overall decline in mental health. This study will evaluate current research theories and findings about the effects of social media on cognitive and psychosocial functioning. The goal is to determine if the pervasive culture of social media could be a contributing factor to increasing rates of depression, anxiety, and impaired psychosocial development, especially in the adolescent population.…
Technology is one of the most influential of the profound changes taking place in the twenty-first century. The easy access, use and dissemination of new technologies has increased the importance and benefits of social networking. People are expanding their ability to communicate with other groups more quickly and efficiently. However the use of social networks has changed how people communicate, their ways of conducting relationships, and led in some ways the loss of our privacy.…
With so many technological advances in today’s society, it is no wonder why industrialized nations like the United States are constantly changing and always seeking to find the next best thing. Social media is one of the several technological advances currently thriving in American society. Social media has significantly changed the way of communication between organizations, communities, and individuals through websites like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube.…
Social media and emerging mobile technologies have forever changed the visual sense of human interaction. Everyone is related to each other in this vast network created by the Internet. It shows us the connection between people in the world everyday. In American society, using social media can help many people find sources of information for your studies, work and share their thoughts and minds. It can be said that the media are a place of sharing, connection and communication of all people in America as well as the globe.…
Nowadays social media are being used in the educational system, business, and healthcare, but the use of social media has both, positive and negative effects. Most of the time social media is used by famous people like the celebrities, politicians, and business. We the public are the audience of all those tweets and posts made by them since we are so entertained by them. According to article “the Donald trumps Clinton, Sanders on…
Bhanot (2012) defined social media technology as the “media for social interaction that can be used in web based and mobile technologies”. In addition, web based and mobile technologies can make the communication into interactive conversation. The most popular social media among the users are Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and so on. Besides, the social media technology is not for the public users to interact other user only but the social media technology provides internal social media to the organizations such as Salesforce.com (Andzulis et al., 2012). Social media is a new trend in this era. It is because social media is an easy way to get information, knowledge, news and others that useful to the users than conventional media such as newspaper, magazines and so on. In addition, the information in the social media is not expensive and easily to access compared than the conventional media (Bhanot, 2012). The statistic shows that the users of the social media had been increased year by year. Facebook has more than 175 million users that are registered in 2009 but has been increased to 845 million users that are registered while Twitter has over 465 million users that are registered. According to Kaplan and Haenlien (2010), the history of social media was starting 33 years ago. In 1979, Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis from Duke University had been created “Usenet” which is social media that allowed users to post public messages. Besides, Bruce and Susan Abelson had created “Open Diary” which is an early social media. The “Open Diary” is a community of the online diary writers.…
Egypt and has helped break down the stranglehold of statesponsored media and information monopolies in those countries.…