Introduction
Smart phones and social media in general have revolutionized the news industry today. It’s difficult to get away from cameras these days. From the surveillance cameras that film our every move to the smart phones in our pockets. In the Middle East, in Syria and in Egypt smart phones are being used to expose atrocities and in so doing shape world opinion. These cameras are being used in areas by and large where the main stream media can’t reach, helping to provide a voice for those who cannot normally be heard.
Smart phones together with all the other kinds of social media have made all of us much more powerful and better informed as citizens. But with that power, of course, comes a responsibility. Should we always believe what we see? We don’t know who is operating the camera or where it was filmed or when it was filmed. Is this breed of so-called Citizen Journalism playing an important role in delivering news or helping the news industry deliver news or is it simply distorting our understanding of world events. Also, what does the mainstream media need to learn from all this? What do the mainstream media need to carefully
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In Mexico, the disputable El blog del Narco (blogdelnarco.com) is said to be controlled by an anonymous IT student. The site distributes reports and on occasion gory pictures of the nation 's war on drugs, which the mass media can 't cover because of the fear of cartels or in light of the fact that they are as of now owned by them, and which the government would not generally like to see published. Professional journalists, who are not able to publish their articles under their real names and ordinary citizens, send in their contributions about killings and fights. This is the only source of information for the individuals living in the affected zones. The site draws around three million hits a month.
Editorial makes believers of us all In his editorial Leonard Pitts discusses how criminals are using social media to curate and spread their heinous crimes around the world in mere seconds. Pitts explains this further by pointing out that our own friends and family members are acting as henchmen to these murderers by “forwarding, retweeting and reposting their grisly misdeeds as casually as neighbors in another age might have shared recipes over the back fence”. He appeals to the large audience of people that use Social Media and Email, typically younger readers, and that are actively forwarding and sharing events on facebook. He also addresses news readers that do not want to feel the purpose of these acts.
In Nicholas Carr’s article, “How Smartphones Hijack Our Minds” (November 10, 2017) Carr discusses the implications of allowing our smartphones to have such a huge effect on our lives. Smartphones serve many purposes, and have created massive societal effects throughout the world despite being introduced roughly only two decades ago. One can converse with anyone in the world at any given moment, they can watch any television show they want, and they can receive alerts so they no longer have to put effort into remembering things themselves. However, with so much control over people’s own lives, one begins to wonder about the negative consequences of the smartphones themselves.
Society expect to be constantly entertained; they have become so concerned with things such as who the latest star is dating, scandals, or dumb people doing rather idiotic things. Much of society have been consumed in their personal instant gratification and what makes them “happy”. When on an off chance that news does show things that are serious and impactful(not necessarily positive things that is happening in the world) people have become so numb that the best they could do is feel sympathetic and at worst continue on with their day. The other part of the problem is that those behind what is being published and shown on the news media have been absorbed in their avarice nature, whatever allows them to make as much profit they do. “Writing thousands of hours of coverage from what could have been summarized in a couple of minutes every few weeks, a new rhetorical strategy was developed, or-let’s be generous-evolved”(6), Saunders describes the new formula formed by mass news firms that would yield the most profit.
The main media’s used are social media and television which are the main focus of chapter 9. Shirky’s article “Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away” begins to talk about a way that people investigate and draw conclusions about the intersection of technology and everyday life. While Elavia writes about how reality shows are viewer driven rather producer or network driven. One thing social media and television have in common is how much of an impact they have on today. Everywhere you look there are ‘perfect’ images being displayed representing unrealistic goals.
In the words of Bernard Cohen, “media do not tell people what to think, but what to think about” (Cohen). When the media presents biased
But with major influx of technology, the fact is changing. Social media like Twitter facilitate the instant, online dissemination of short fragments of information from a variety of official and unofficial sources, namely citizen journalists. Hermida suggests that synchronous and always-on system availability of news are enabling citizens to maintain critical awareness of their surroundings, hence giving rise to ambivalent journalism. The emergence of ambivalent journalism, followed by growing social media, is a sort of question to verifying duty of journalists. The author suggests that to get to the ideal scenario, it is important to regulate and negotiate the flow of awareness information, facilitating the outreach of right information to right
Today’s generation is all about their smartphones. These phones now do everything for people to use and the manufacturers make them so easy for anyone to use. But, smartphones are taking over people’s lives, and it may not be for the best. They actually change the way people act and think. Smartphones can save all peoples information such as passwords, usernames, credit cards, emails, and more.
Cell Phones Have you ever wondered why your parents would not get you a phone?. In Today’s technologically advanced world, it is pretty common that you have at least one or two connections between technology. However, most parents disagree assuming that technology is hurting the teen’s Childhood. Nevertheless, having a cell phone is a necessity in today’s modernized world. Some of the reasons are practicality, GPS tracking for parents to know where their kids are, and safety.
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.
The cell phone is without a fact one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. Most people these days cannot visualize life without them. This small technological gadget gives us multiple functions, one of the most valuable is communication. Phones make it easier to check up and contact people than ever before. These devices also provide benefits for people that have to keep their busy life in order.
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.
Furthermore, in many developing countries or in those with oppressive regimes, government actions are more important than the Internet in defining how information is produced and consumed, and by whom. There are so many counties that use strict censorship in their media. “Present-day examples include Russia as a territorially shrunken successor state to the former USSR, China and North Korea” (Höchli, 2010). Censorship in North Korea is known to be the most intense among the world. With a government such as theirs, they are able to take strict control over communications.
New technologies that people had never imagined a decade, or even some decades ago, are now expanding and changing all our lives. Taking smartphones as an example, people in old time had never imagined that small, tiny box could enable people to bring smart computer to everywhere. Yet, smartphones are now completely embedded into our lives and changed how we communicate. Technology lets us live simply, more conveniently, and more easily, but at the same time, it creates complex debates and controversies of ethical problems. In this world, where humans cannot live without the benefits of technology, it is impossible to ignore ethical problems.
With the internet being invented and undoubtedly taking huge precedence in our lives, there is inevitably going to be a way for people to waste their time on the internet. That time waster, also known as social media, is one of the most beneficial and also one of the worst things that has entered the lives of people as a result of the internet. People everywhere use social media. They use it to feel connected to people who are far away, to promote their businesses, and for a plethora of other reasons. Social media has begun to be increasing used in school, the workplace, and also just in peoples own homes.
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.