THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA ON THE PERCEPTIONS OF LOW YAT CRISIS
1.1 Introduction
Social media has generally been understood as a form of electronic platform which allows users to interact, communicate and express their ideas or opinions anytime, everywhere. Currently, with the development of the technologies, social media has become vital and ubiquitous accessible. We are able to know and update what was happening around the world without direct experience it. If there were any natural disaster happened around the world, we can update the latest news constantly through social networking sites. For instance, nowadays, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the most familiar media that are free to use by people in order to share information and common interest with the public. It provides a sense of social
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Before 1990s, the advent of social media, traditional media such as newspapers, television and radio broadcasts are the main sources of news. Nevertheless, according to Sawyer and Chen (2012), people in today’s globalization society tend to believe and rely more on the social media rather than traditional media. Although social media brings convenience to the users, but it is still have several downsides which may directly influence people’s perceptions and behavior. Social media can influence people’s perceptions on many different aspects, for instances, on the communication, society, business and life.
The aim of the study will be focusing on the role of social media on the people’s perceptions of Low Yat crisis, which happened on 12 July, 2015 in the Low Yat Plaza Malaysia. Recently, the prevalent use of social media has facilitated the propagation of messages and the hasty diffusion of rumors after crises. If someone misuses the social media to purposely disseminate inaccurate information, this may eventually create a big problem to the
It shows that they are human and just like us in a way it is easier to feel a personal connection with a
Broadcasted on October 30,1938 on the radio, the broadcast caused much panic because of its believability. Unlike ever before, the effects of the radio broadcast were displayed as people feared for their lives as they believed that a real alien invasion was happening through the news-bulletin formatted layout of the broadcast. The effects of “War of the Worlds” led Americans to realize the impact that the radio had on their life, how what they listened to controlled their lives without them even knowing it. Although the radio isn’t as popular today, media holds a powerful part in the lives of all Americans. With the growth of social media, the media is a bigger influence than ever before.
News media experts have noted that Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the first demonstration of how disaster response was changing and that individuals possessed “an unprecedented capacity to access, share, create and apply information” (Nachison, 2005). The use of social media facilitated collaborative online efforts to locate missing people and emergency housing, and coordinate volunteers (Nelson et al., 2010 as cited in Goldfine, 2011). Hurricane Katrina was one of the first natural disasters that “marked the coming of age of participatory media” (Haddow & Haddow, 2009). During Hurricane Katrina, social media was established as the ‘go-to’ platform for information (PR Newswire, 2011). As this disaster occurred when the internet was gaining popularity,
Helps you get a better sense of different kind of people in the
First Checking with family and friends People were using social media to let their friends and love ones know they were safe, what their current status was, and offering. Social media connect people with their family easily, to know their condition, if their some hurt, to provide help and to at least ask help to the government for serious cause for serious damages. This will help members to stop worrying about their love ones who were affected by the calamity. Next is Obtaining emotional support and healing, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram provided enormous amounts of emotional support along with concrete offers of
The Use of Social Networking Nowadays, we are living under decent technology and it has changed a lot of things: Entertainment, communication, and relationship; economy, education, and habit; medical, political and cultural etc. Social media has allowed us to interact with many more people other than we are used to before. We are living in a world where people would rather use text message with their mobile phone than face-to-face to each other, share greeting with more than hundreds of friends on the social media such as upload how they feel on Facebook, show photo Instagram, and what they are doing with Snapchat.
Thirty years ago, the concept of social media would have seemed impossible. A place where a person can show everyone they know what they are doing in two seconds from any city seems insane. Today, it is the daily ritual of the average teenager, including myself. I start my mornings looking at Instagram and end my nights looking at Snapchat. The middle of the day is for YouTube.
As indicated by different research studies in the field of online social networks, it has been uncovered that these sites are impacting the societies in both positive and negative ways. So the “Impacts of social media on humanity” is a hot topic for discussion. Different people have different views about the impact of social media. Some people say that social media have played a beneficial role toward the progress of humanity and some people say that a deterrent role has been played by the social media towards the progress of humanity. Social media has more deterrent impact on progress of humanity.
Social Media for The Community In this Modern Era, Social Media plays an pivotal role in communicating. If we look according to the expert B.K Lewis, media social is label for digital technology that allows people to interact,providing and sharing the message content. We know that social media is very close to the community. Even it can be said that “human’s can’t lived without social media”.
Political impact of Social Media Atheer AlOthman Hala AlMashali Maha AlSunaidi Yara AlFozan The use of Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and other social media has changed the way politicians and citizens handle politics. And because of the influence of social networking sites, it have been adopted by political figures.
Now days where ever we look we can see commercials like billboards,tv commercials,internet commercials but does it effect our decisions ? The Media is believes influence people there are many ways to influence people and societies maybe they are influence by media we call that media effects. We can say media effects our review of life. Media control of information we get , editors have a lot of power in this case because they control what we thinking about and also they can desisted who is the bad guy and who is the good guy in the story the way they tell us.
Introduction In this new era of internet, computers and cell phones play a vital role in business. The growth of technology is in its highest pace. Marketing and communication techniques also changed with the technology. With the growth of Internet, online social Medias have become important communication channels and also virtual communities have emerged.
Abstract The emergence of social media has led to the rapid increase of its usage amongst the consumers around the world. This has increased the usage of social media for adoption of tactics such as public relations by many professionals. Since this new form of communication is spreading and growing at such a fast pace, it has become crucial to thoroughly analyze the impact social media has on the overall performance of the practice of public relations. Introduction
Impact Social Media in Society Social Media is a medium that uses technology to share all the information that occurs in society or about one 's life and networks. Social Media technologies take on various forms including magazines, internet forums, weblogs, social blogs, microblogging, wikis, podcasts, photos or images, videos, social rankings and bookmarks. Social Media in the Society has a big impact on the daily life. Everbody can used social media, it could be young or old people.
Chapter 1 Background of the Study Introduction In the contemporary world, most people use social media for news, entertainment, to seek information and to be updated every day. Nowadays, the use of social media has greatly changed how people interact with other people. Today, most people only consider the benefits that the social media brought to the people without thinking about the possible negative implications of using it.