SOCIAL MEDIA Social media is one of the tools of mass media also known as Social Networking Service or SNS or Social Networking Site. It is an online platform where one can share similar personal or career interests, activities, background or real life conditions. These social network sites can be accessed through desktops, laptops, tablets and mobile phones.
Social Networking sites can be categorized as Three types
1. To maintain Social Relations Ex: Face Book, Twitter, and What’s App
2. To maintain Non Social Interpersonal Relations or to maintain professional services Ex: Linked In
3. To Help users in finding informational resources Ex: Goodreads
Sometimes the bifurcation may not be possible hard and fastly. Because in FB we can maintain
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Anyone can upload all types of videos. However it is not only about funny and silly entertainment. One can find many videos on English speaking tutorials on the YouTube. It has a flexibility that it has pause and play. It is not a boring class lecture anymore, YouTube is providing a wide verities of videos of which help in learning English speaking and accent. English Speaking with Mister Duncan is one of the most famous English teaching channels since 2006, Reach English is another channel which is really helpful for beginners with sub titles. BBC learn English, British Council for kids, Business English POD and many more channels are the most famous among the English teaching channels. You tube is the largest video portal and the second largest video search engine. It has more than 1 billion users. It has potential to use an instructive tool. It offers unlimited opportunities for formal and informal student centered language learning approaches. Its videos can be used in ELT classrooms for various aspects to enhance new vocabulary, accents, voice modulation, stress, and intonation.
WHATSAPP
Whatsapp has created the new trend in communication, especially in student’s life. It helps them to interact with their friends as well as with the teachers who can clarify their doubts and also the information among their friends can be shared easily. Today many apps like whatsapp are coming to android market. A good response has been creating
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Many companies are conducting conferences through the Skype. The one who participates in conference must be very conscious with his language as many officials observe. It is a free internet telephone service. It promote unlimited possibilities for the teachers and ESL students to teach and learn collaboratively anywhere in the world. Students can enjoy face to face learning with native speakers. It has become an official platform for the teachers to be sold themselves for high salary as most of the interviews held in Skype. Now-a-days it is an albatross around one’s necks making losses of several precious and priceless hours of time. Day by day Cybercrimes in this social media were reaching super saturation levels. People are spending too much time to build artificial relations in this witching world. People are barking up the wrong tree to pursue knowledge and academics. It's not the problem at all, having a bee in one’s bonnet. The problem is only with sharing the obsessed ideas in the social media. People are in the gigantic space called social media. It's time for makeup one’s mind. Do they want to oscillate in the space from creativity to knowledge via imagination or do they want to step towards spurious thoughts? People have to be aware of mistrustful traps. One has to post one’s kindling efforts to revolutionize people but not to demotivate the
Should Schools Monitor Students Social Media!?!? Have you ever showed up at school and had a friend or classmate tell you about a rumor directed towards you? I think schools should monitor students social media posts but, only if there seems to be problems occurring and disrupting the class. Cyberbullying can lead to low self esteem and depression, causing worse things. Document E, document B and, document D all agree with limiting/monitoring students online speech.
Meaningful and engaging app like Skype will be a significant teaching source for the coming generation of teachers. In the article, “How to get started with Skype in the classroom” the author, Josie Fraser, argues that technology is convenient; it can provide a great amount of help to both the teachers and students. She writes, “Teachers can use it to access and share activities, resources and lesson plans, to connect to other educators and organizations, and to spark even more ideas for using the instant messaging, voice and video calling for learning and teaching” (4). The author’s observation ring true to me because videos calling can provide extra amount of help to the students and as well as the teachers—they can help students to enhance
In today's society, the balance between individualism and conformity to society's expectations is a prominent and deceptive conflict. Oftentimes, the individual must put his uniqueness aside and settle for a view of an occupation, hobby, or idea that society agrees with. Instead of expressing original and creative ideas, they are held hostage by comparing themselves with the lives and accomplishments of others and the standards their our society. One of the biggest tools of society, social media, allows people to share ideas and interests with everyone. However, naturally, one will only post what he knows others will accept and enjoy just as he does.
Social media is a truly unique concept that gives a person the ability to construct their identity any way they please. Many different social media outlets exist and give people the opportunity to present themselves using different models. Facebook (arguably the most popular social media site), prompts users to construct their identity in a way that reflects their true self. While many people use real names and information about themselves, it is not difficult to create a completely new persona. Other popular sites like Twitter and Instagram encourage users to create an identity using abstract forms of expression such as photography.
I. INTRODUCTION Social Networking Sites (SNSs) are online platforms that users use to create Personal profiles, associates with companion and fuss in different parts. Social networking sites exhibits individual profile and facilitates with various other activities such as sharing information with each other. Social networking sites grab million of people in the globe who are united these websites into their daily life style. Social networking sites will become famous all over the world.
Living in the modern era makes social media become part of our life. Basically, social media are used for communication and social interaction. Based on the Merriam-Webster, social media are forms of electronic communication (as websites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos). There are lots of social media that people use nowadays such as Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, Path, and others. Most of people probably have two or more social media’s accounts.
Instead of doing the same thing every single day, it is beneficial to try new things. When people experience new things, and are introduced to new material, they are learning. Some people do not realize it, but we all learn something new every day. Learning is a relatively permanent change in behavior or knowledge that results from experience. Learning can be adaptive and flexible to meet life’s demand.
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
Social media is becoming an ubiquitous in today’s society and today’s youth are spending a great deal of time using some sites to access in a public life. Social media 1 Negative effects of social media on education A lot of students are using some sites that can distract them from their doings especially on their studies. Yes, social media gives everything what a person will need. Social media is a great way to have a person communicating with another person but we also do know that it could give us a big impact that could be problem to our studies. Nowadays, a lot of students are multi-tasking especially whenever they are doing some things that are related to their studies.
Imagine that 20 years ago the only way to stay in touch with a person was to mail a letter. In a modern world with the invention of social media, people can converse with someone using the internet and get a response within seconds. Although in the course of time all generations have started to take advantage of the novations that social media has brought about, teenagers and young adults are the most active users of these networks. According to numerous research studies in the area of online social networks, it has been shown that such sites are impacting the lives of the youth significantly. Understandably, there are a lot of different opinions about its positive and negative influence.
There should be limits on students and teachers alike as to how much social media is present in the classroom. This will make sure that students are receiving the maximum possible education, and as a result will be better prepared for the outside world. In addition to schools, social media is becoming more present in the workplace. Social media in the workplace has a similar effects on the adults as does the presence of social media in school. It distracts employees from doing their jobs, and makes the workplace not run as smooth as it
With the benefits of social media, it plays a big part in the students’ everyday lives. In using this, it allows people to be updated every day with regards to what is happening in their surroundings. Most of the students use social media for academic purposes, for instance, to be able to interact or communicate with their classmates and teachers with regards to the activities and tasks that have given to them. People, in general,
Twenty-first century learners spend a lot of free time online. They use it extensively to get global access. It becomes a raging craze for everyone nowadays. Although social media may have change the world for the better, it may also cause distraction to students, it changes the way they interact with others and it causes psychological changes or other health problems. It is quite obvious that using social media has its benefits.
Frameworks and Theories Surrounding Social Media Uptake The overwhelming success of social media has been to date continuously investigated by academic researchers and practitioners. Several existing theories from various fields in social science such as information technology, economics and social psychology have been extended in the area of social media to explain its adoption. Here we discuss some of the key theories and frameworks frequently mentioned in social media literature: One of the earliest social science theory applied is the Diffusion of Innovation (DoI) Theory first developed by E. M. Rogers in 1962.
Today 's society is a network society. It is a product of the digital revolution and certain sociocultural changes, that occurred within these last twenty years. It is a society build around personal and organizational networks; that are based on digital communication by the use of the internet. Networks are international and know no frontiers. Furthermore, this brought forward new ways of communication, where people from every corner of the world are interconnected and make them reachable in every instant; thus, making the network society a global one.