Gender Fluid In Social Media

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Social media is the new way of communication, a countless range of internet based tools and platforms that increase and enhance the sharing of information. This form of media makes the transfer of text, photos, audio, video, and information in general increasingly fluid among internet users. Social media has relevance not only for regular internet users, but business as well. Platforms like Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have created online communities where people can share as much or as little personal information as they desire with other members. The result is an enormous amount of information that can be easily shared, investigated, promoted, discussed and created. Media plays and important role in modern society. By creating a certain …show more content…

People from all over the world use these social media platforms to build relationships with one another. This method of communications is fast, cheap and reliable. Social media platforms are an excellent way of informing news within Ireland and around the world. The Independent Newspaper informed Ireland in September 2015, that a very well-known Irish RTÉ radio news reporter Jonathan Clynch, broadcasted to Ireland that he identifies as "gender fluid" and will be addressed as Jonathan Rachel Clynch. The 44-year-old broadcaster changed his name on online networking and has been generally commended for his choice to freely distinguish as gender fluid - a first for the state broadcaster. As a gender fluid individual, Jonathan Rachel sometimes identifies himself more as male and other times as more female. Clynch has worked at RTÉ for the last 16 years across several departments and roles including news anchor, reporter and researcher for the popular News at One show on RTÉ Radio 1. This is a good case of gender fluidity being involved in social media. Gender fluidity conveys a wider, more flexible range of gender expression, with interests and behaviours that may even change from day to day. Gender fluid people do not feel confined by restrictive boundaries of stereotypical expectations of women and men. For some people, gender fluidity extends beyond behaviour and interests, and actually serves to specifically define their gender identity. In other words, a person may feel they are more female on some days and more male on others, or possibly feel that neither term describes them accurately. Their identity is seen as being gender

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