Using Social Media to Tackle Intolerance LITERATURE REVIEW The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) is running an experimental action research pilot project‚ funded by Open Society Foundations (OSF)‚ which seeks to understand the potential impact of social media on attitudes and intolerance in Europe. This literature review has been produced to summarise existing knowledge on the role of social media in influencing social attitudes‚ particularly in relation to inter-group dynamics
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Social Networking and Its Dangers Just when I was about to pick up my pen to finally start on my assignment‚ the Facebook chat buzzer went off yet again. It was Ivan‚ a friend I just met at the beach this afternoon playing beach volleyball. We chatted for about twenty minutes before he started asking me a series of personal questions and finally my sexual orientation. I was naïve then and didn’t know what sexual orientation meant‚ looking back I realized that Ivan was gay wanted to know if I
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Social Networking Andrea Whitfield Ashford State University INF 103 March 15‚ 2010 In today’s society knowledge‚ having technical skills and access to information technologies‚ is becoming very important for people who have become open mind and supportive with social connections. Although resources and opportunities may be available‚ one may not necessarily be aware of their existence‚ or even have direct access to them. In those cases‚ getting to know people from different backgrounds
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Social networking sites and our lives How people’s trust‚ personal relationships‚ and civic and political involvement are connected to their use of social networking sites and other technologies Summary of findings Questions have been raised about the social impact of widespread use of social networking sites (SNS) like Facebook‚ LinkedIn‚ MySpace‚ and Twitter. Do these technologies isolate people and truncate their relationships? Or are there benefits associated with being connected to others
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It was only a matter of time before social networking had gained so much attention that we would evolve this tool into a goldmine for businesses and entrepreneurs to grow their passions. Social networking clearly has an array of benefits; some would argue that social networks should be for individuals only‚ but users like me find that including businesses in social networking is an outstanding tool for judging reputation‚ finding out about new products and services‚ and giving free branding and advertising
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Social Networking Sites: Harmful to our Society Social networking websites‚ such as MySpace‚ Facebook and Twitter‚ have blown up immensely in just a short span of about 5 years; most people nowadays have found that these and other social networking sites have become a “necessity” in their lives and must constantly be checking in on them. Social networking sites such as the ones mentioned above allow anyone to make new friends‚ reconnect with old ones‚ and blog just about anything under the sun
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The EU wants individuals to have the right to "delete" their information from Social Networking sites‚ such as Facebook? Does this make sense? Is it even possible? The right of being forgotten In contemporary times especially over last five years ‚ with the development of computer technology as well as the spread of using the Internet ‚ it seems that the popularity of social networking sites has rapidly increased all over the world . Through the development of
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1. Social media enables the spread of unreliable and false information. 49.1% of people have heard false news via social media. On Sep. 5‚ 2012 false rumors of fires‚ shootouts‚ and caravans of gunmen in a Mexico City suburb spread via Twitter and Facebook caused panic‚ flooded the local police department with over 3‚000 phone calls‚ and temporarily closed schools. Shashank Tripathi‚ tweeting as @ComfortablySmug‚ spread false information in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy by posting on Twitter that
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Social Networking and Risks Involved Social networking for many is a way of everyday life. In today’s modern cyber tech world‚ it has become almost a rarity to find someone who can honestly say they have never used any type of online networking. Sites such as Facebook‚ Twitter and‚ YouTube are just a few of today’s most widely used. Networking has become a great source for countless reasons including; staying connected with friends and family‚ meeting people with the same interests‚ dating and
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As designers‚ we pride ourselves on being great communicators. We go to extreme lengths to communicate with users in a language they understand‚ enabling them to engage with our messages and feel like they’re part of a story we built just for them. Yet‚ we do a poor job of communicating with those whom our work requires us to talk to every day—and we need to‚ and can‚ get better at it. In fact‚ as much as we consider ourselves designers‚ significant parts of our working hours are actually spent
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