among social media and mainstream media, the matter of truthful reporting has become even more important than it has in the past. Not only is it a moral responsibility for journalists to report the truth, it also the reader’s responsibility to discern by themselves what is true and what is fake. Only then can this country impede the decay of journalistic integrity. As of 2018, “fake news” has become a hot topic among politicians, journalists, and the everyday person. With the advent of social media
Social network sites during the last decade are considered to be one of the greatest technological developments worldwide. Harsh Agrawal 2014 defines social media as an “interactive dialogue between organizations, communities and even an individual”. The use of Internet gives you a great advantage as an individual as you can easily communicate with your friends, and at the same time it makes it possible for organizations to promote their business in different parts of the world using different online
Social media has taken its place since the dawn of the twenty-first century. In today’s generation, it is one of the main tools for communication and played an important role in each and every one of us. According to Fine (2010), “Social media is not really about technology. It’s about a cultural shift that is enabled by the evolution of technology.” As the time goes by, social media had evolved into something big that almost everyone is addicted to it. But why is it so addicting? What does social
Contemporary social media has become the foundational means of global communication. As social media has thrived through time, it has condensed the world into a smaller more universal market. Social media has also become a substantial factor of globalization, as it has made it facile for companies and firms to get through to the public and its market. Communication has also amended since social media evolved. It has made it easier for companies to target a diverse market, as social media is directed
What is social media? Social media are computer-mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange information, ideas and pictures and videos in virtual communities and networks. From status updates on Facebook, tweets on Twitter, viral videos on YouTube and lately pins on Pinterest, social media takes on many different forms, including social networking sites like Facebook, blogs and microblogs like Twitter and WordPress, content communities like YouTube and Flickr and so on. Community
Social media has been quite popular for some time now. It has laid the foundation of web 2.0 (Duffett, 2017). Social media has provided a new place for users to congregate and exchange ideas. This has all been made possible by the availability and the speed of the internet. Businesses have used this opportunity to promote their products and services on social media platforms. Social media allows for users to communicate with each other freely, which helps companies to understand what their customers
again. Without social media, that used to happen all the time. In spite of the negative rap social media often receives, it is hard to overlook the benefits. Studies have shown that positive interactions on social media can boost youth’s confidence. It has also enabled charities to spread their messages and small businesses to expand their customer base. Social media has been a powerful connector of people from all areas of the globe and all walks of life. Some people see social media as an invasion
Have you ever tought how social media changed the way we communicate? Before the invention of the internet, were people able to speak each other efficiently and instantly? With the popularity and rise in social media, nowadays people are close to each other. Three of the advantages social media provides individuals are sharing different things, providing educational resources to students and lowering communication prices. The first advantage of social media is that it provides individuals to share
Social media is defining as the future of communications, Internet-based tools and platforms to improve and increase information sharing countless arrays. This new form of media, make the text, movement between images, audio, video, and the overall flow of information more and more Internet users. Social media not only for ordinary Internet users is relevant, but business too. Social media icons as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn platform to create online communities, because they desire with the
Background and justification Research in social media has received increasing attention within researchers, scholars and marketers due to the involvement that social media brings to society. According to Verhoef et al. (2010), it has developed a new ways of communication and improved the interaction between companies and customers in the last two decades. The introduction of Internet has affected considerably on various aspects of doing business (Fotis et al, 2012). Among a number of advantages