Understanding Social Media Analysis

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Understanding social media
Media refers to the plethora of means used to communicate and disseminate information from one person to the other. The exchange of social information and ideas is done through social media. Unlike other media instruments such as newspaper or radio which can only be used to receive information , social media gives the receiver the opportunity to communicate his own ideas and views, thus acting as a two way street. In other words social media refers to all those internet based applications that allow the exchange of user generated content. Given the tremendous amount of globalization and world-wide interconnectedness, social media is growing leaps and bounds. The growth rate of social media can be gauged from the fact …show more content…

However, it must be observed that the consent to take pictures does not imply the consent to put it publicly on the web. The nature of the consent is being constantly debated all over the world.
Revenge porn is emerging as a new trend in the developed world — from the US and Japan to countries in Europe. And now it's being seen in India, fuelled by the growing access to the Internet and camera-wielding mobile phones — all that is needed for taking and posting offensive pictures.
Unfortunately, there is a serious lack of proper legislation as far as revenge porn is considered. Israel became the first country to legislate upon the issue. Their law recognises revenge porn as a sex crime and its circulation is punishable up to 5 years of imprisonment. Britain, Germany, Philippines and 12 states of the USA have criminalised revenge porn.
The Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides that every person has the right to respect for his private and family life. Its application lies in the Council of Europe.
In case of UK the offence needs to be done multiple times to constitute harassment. Liberal Democrats in UK are exhorting the government to bring on specific laws in this …show more content…

The websites generally ask for large sums of money for the removal of such pictures from the victim. In such case the intermediary (Google, Face book, twitter) is unlikely to reveal to the victim the name of the person who might have posted the content online. Court intervention is required for it. In cases of content being circulated on a smartphone the service provider is duty bound to provide the requisite details. Foreign Service providers are not bound to provide information.

• The global community has recognised the right to privacy in this regard. Privacy Protection is recognised in the Article 17 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)
• No on shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his or her privacy, family, home or correspondence nor to unlawful attacks on one’s honour and reputation.
• Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

However several such laws have been considered to be against the freedom to speech and

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