B. Subpoint-Social media platforms create misinformed individuals 1. Denis-Marie Ordway in a 2017 article, “Fake News and the Spread of Misinformation,” attempts to give readers some sense as to how much misinformation is spread. She states that, “A December 2016 survey by the Pew Research Center suggests that 23 percent of U.S. adults have shared fake news, knowingly or unknowingly, with friends and others” TRANSITION: News is constantly available to read, however what individuals see and share becomes things that are not completely accurate. Then judgments are made based on that false information, and misinformed individuals. 2. “Users appear to be less capable of distinguishing true from false rumors… in fact, we show that the prevalent …show more content…
More specifically bullying is made much easier through social media as well as on a much larger scale. 20-40% of children and adolescents have been victims of cyber bullying (Aboujaoude 2015). Transition: Thank you Megan, and now we will hear Morgan’s main points regarding her opposing view that social media provides many benefits. II. Speaker 2 Main Points A. Subpoint-Social media platforms allow for an increase in communication skills 1. Cited by Shari Veil, in her 2011 article, “Incorporating Social Media in Risk and Crisis Communication,” “Social media is at its core human communication, possessing characteristics of participation, openness, conversation, community, and connectedness.” This demonstrates how integral social media has become in our daily communication. TRANSITION: Having social media as an option for communication, only further enhances an individual's skills in communicating. 2. Shari Veil additionally in her article states, “social media websites attract millions of users, many of whom integrate the sites into their daily lives and business practices…social media allows users to connect with peers by adding them to networks of friends, which facilitates communication, particularly among peer …show more content…
“Social media makes the community part of the actual crisis communication response. For example…Twitter was used to quickly share initial information and updates during the 2007 and 2008 California wildfires, 2008 Mumbai massacre, 2009 crash of US Airways Flight 1549, 2010 Haiti earthquake, and 2011 Tunisian uprising.” This information, again in Veil’s 2011 article, reinforces the idea of how social media communication is highly beneficial and furthers an individual’s ability to remain informed on current events. C. Subpoint-Social media platforms can be a strong tool to encourage major changes in the world. 1. During the 2011 Egypt uprising protesters gained support through social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to help end poverty and unemployment in which they were experiencing at the time. This major flow of support from across the world helped strengthen the protesters cause and led to an eventual victory in Egypt (Brym 2014). 2. In Kenya, 200, after a controversial election violence broke out where over 1,000 people were killed. During this crisis there was a broadcast ban, which prevented news from being spread about the violence in Kenya. The Kenyan citizens turned to social media sites like Facebook to express their opinions and share with others the violence in Kenya. More and more citizens used social media to express their grievances in a safer way online instead of on the streets where people were being killed (Makinen
Appropriate technology, such as social media, affecting communication during the crisis situation and how these technologies may be used to enhance communication
Social media has taken over the modern day world. It has helped us to communicate,
As a middle eastern, I did not realize how much Facebook was considered a main role in these uprising and how it was reported here in the U.S. and the west. These uprisings were not just a result of a “Facebook revolution,” but the thousands of people who took to the streets and protested against dictators and demanded change. As someone who lived there, I believe that the political, religious, and economic problems were there already and Facebook was a tool that happened to be accessible to help protesters organize. It certainly was not a main factor in these revolutions. As a matter of fact Facebook was also used and still being used by governments to spread propaganda. In the Syrian conflict Facebook, twitter, and video platforms like YouTube are being used by terrorist groups like ISIS to spread their radical ideology and even reach like-minded people in the west. This was not possible few years ago and is definitely an example of how social media could play a negative role in
In lieu of recent natural disasters like hurricanes Harvey, Jose, and Irma, people have been using social media as a way of a relief effort. Social media had been used as many things, but no one had really used it to provide relief efforts for natural disasters. This really started happening in 2017. People have started to use social media to help people that have been affected by the natural disaster. In today's society, social media and its effect on aiding people in natural disasters is overall a positive thing.
It’s the one thing people feel like they can’t live without, social media. Social media connects us to millions of people so we can share pictures, videos, or just simple messages to each other. You must give appreciation towards prior inventions like the computer, cellphone, and television because they were what gave birth to social media. Social media has continued to grow in the past decade and people and organizations must adapt to this new trend of communication to stay informed. One thing that must adapt to social media is emergency situations. In an emergency, communication is key for the responders working the scene and the bystanders. When it comes to an emergency, typically there is a structured
In our modern world, the spread of violence has increased substantially amongst the years. Terrorism and lack of civility have become a way of life and is radically growing at an alarming rate. Many concerning civilians often ask themselves “ What is causing the rate violence in the world to increase.” Thomas L. Friedman a New York Times Journalist, author of Social Media: Destroyer or Creator? answers this question using the story of “Wael Ghonim, the Egyptian Google employee whose anonymous Facebook page helped launch the Tahrir Square revolution in early 2011.” In the article, Mr.Friedman claims that due to the speed and brevity of social media, rumors that confirm people’s biases are believed and spread among millions allowing for online discussions to quickly descend into a rage of confusion and disorder.
So much goes on in the world each and every day, and so much can be recorded with new technologies. People can capture a fleeting moment with just the press of a button and instantly share that with people dispersed all across the globe. That’s the beauty of modern technology in a digital age where people are almost as excited about their experience as they are with sharing it and hoping that it gets lots of likes and attention. Social media is one of the most powerful tools in the modern world as something as simple as a photograph can create a reaction on a large scale. People can celebrate victories and mourn tragedies together as news and images spread like wildfire. It’s almost a more pure form of news as people are able to post and
One perspective is that the “Arab Spring” may refer as “Twitter Revolution” or “Facebook revolution”. Social media played a vital role to reshape the politics of “Middle East”. The impact of this change was very crucial for the governments. The lash back of this change was different in different countries. In “Tunisia” and “Egypt” government regimes did not have any social media base and they could not estimate the impact of social media in the society. In “Tunisia” and in “Egypt” nine out ten people responded to a poll conducted by the “facebook” to organise the protest. Finally its ended up with a regime change democracy won through social media
Social Media has grown to be one of the world’s most popular use of communication.
The 2011 uprising in Egypt was in many ways a traditional brick-and-mortar revolution, but with a cyber-twist to it: based on their statistical analysis of a large body of tweets related to the 2011 uprising in Egypt, Starbird and Palen (2012) observed that activists used Twitter as an important tool to share ideas and information with like-minded people, because Twitter allows a high number of activists interact using its retweet and other mechanisms. In this case, Twitter was used among participants and supporters of a traditional mass movement to bypass government controlled
CNA, a research facility, partnered with the National Emergency Management Association to provide research and information on the public’s expectations about emergency management’s use of social media. Before this research, the data about this connection was only done with case studies and unreliable accounts. CAN used a survey in this research to see how people felt about social media in connection with emergency management. The results found an positive approach. Many people in emergency management agencies, on local and national levels are very familiar with social media. It is usually the larger websites that are more widely known. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, are widely known and publicized. There are however many other social media sites that are not as widely known that are even more useful to nationwide security and communication such as crowdsourcing and Nixle and these are not as widely known (Su, Wardell, & Throkidsen, 2013). So while people in emergency management
The social media is one of the most common ways of communication and pretty much of knowing anything and everything around the world these days, and it is growing very rapidly. It changes and affects each person in a different way, or ways. Some may argue that social media has a bad influence on children and young adults, and that it negatively effects their brains, character, or personalities, while most people see that the social media has a more positive effect on them than a negative one. Moreover, social media has helped many people around the world to connect, or re-connect, with each other, easily. Social media is basically the new way of keeping in touch with everything and everyone, and of even strengthening bonds between each
Social media is any website that allows social interaction. Social media is growing rapidly throughout the world. More adults and teenagers are joining sites such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter to interact with friends, family, and strangers. The introduction of social media has changed the world in many ways. It affects each individual in different ways. Today it can be used as a very helpful tool in changing a person’s life, but at the same time cause such conflicts which can negatively impact a person. While there are some negatives associated with social media, the positives in communication all around, has made the world stronger and a better place to live in.
Most of the users of the internet in these nations are young, urban and many of them are also unemployed. It is also been argued that social media has been the key to organizing widespread protests as well as to publicize the demands of the protests, here Facebook is known to be used more by the protestors in many Arab countries for the dissemination of news as compared to the locally well known news media outlets.
Some of the top benefits of social media over the years are that it is free to anyone, the content can get out to resources virtually immediately, and it can be delivered to a wide variety of people. For these reasons, communication through social media has become an extremely accessible and convenient way to communicate. It is also popular for those who need to be in contact with others. One example that comes to mind is a teenager who goes away on a trip to visit a friend or family. They can be hundreds of miles away but still talk to their parents as if they weren’t. Another example is a person who is shy and has a hard time making friends face-to-face, social media sites are a great way to meet people and build relationships.