The document discusses social media, traditional media, and their issues. It defines social media as internet-based tools used to connect with friends and family. Traditional media focuses on delivering news. Current problems in media include inaccuracies, sensationalism, and poor coverage of important issues. Social media allows for democratized information sharing and user-generated content through sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest. While social media enables connections and learning, it can also waste time, spread misinformation, and negatively impact body image.
The document discusses social media, traditional media, and their issues. It defines social media as internet-based tools used to connect with friends and family. Traditional media focuses on delivering news. Current problems in media include inaccuracies, sensationalism, and poor coverage of important issues. Social media allows for democratized information sharing and user-generated content through sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest. While social media enables connections and learning, it can also waste time, spread misinformation, and negatively impact body image.
The document discusses social media, traditional media, and their issues. It defines social media as internet-based tools used to connect with friends and family. Traditional media focuses on delivering news. Current problems in media include inaccuracies, sensationalism, and poor coverage of important issues. Social media allows for democratized information sharing and user-generated content through sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest. While social media enables connections and learning, it can also waste time, spread misinformation, and negatively impact body image.
The document discusses social media, traditional media, and their issues. It defines social media as internet-based tools used to connect with friends and family. Traditional media focuses on delivering news. Current problems in media include inaccuracies, sensationalism, and poor coverage of important issues. Social media allows for democratized information sharing and user-generated content through sites like Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Pinterest. While social media enables connections and learning, it can also waste time, spread misinformation, and negatively impact body image.
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MEDIA NEWS
AND PROBLEM WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA? •The use of the internet to connect users with their friends, family, and acquaintances. Social media are necessarily about meeting new people online although this does happen. Instead they are primarily about connecting with friends, family and acquaintances you already have. Media news or news industry are forms of mass media that focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public. These include print media, broadcast news, and more recently the internet CURRENT PROBLEMS IN THE MEDIA 1. HIGH LEVEL OF INACCURACIES Public confidence in the media, already low, continues to slip. The level of inaccuracy noticed is even higher when the public has first-hand knowledge of a news story. •Sensationalism There is tendency for the press to play up and dwell on stories that are sensational- murders, car crushers, kidnapping, sex scandals and the like. • Poor coverage of important issue While the media is busy covering sensationalist stories, issues that affect our lives and the whole world receive little attention. SOCIAL MEDIA AND ITS DYNAMICS Website that brings people together to talk, share ideas and interests, or make new friends. This type of collaboration and sharing of data is often referred to as social media . Unlike traditional media that is often created by no more than 10 people , social media sites contain content that has been created by hundreds or even millions of different people Conversation supported by online tools Many relatively inexpensive and widely accessible electronic tools that enable anyone to publish and access information, collaborate on a common effort, or build relationships. THE DYNAMICS OF SOCIAL MEDIA REVOLVE/INTERSECT AROUND: •The democratization of information and knowledge and the distribution of content through social interaction. •Publishing tools that are scalable and easy to access •Individuals transitioning from media consumers to content publishers VARIOUS SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES TWITTER Perhaps the simplest of all social media platforms, twitter also just happens to be one of the most fun and interesting. FACEBOOK Considered to be synonymous with “social media” by some. Facebook is the one site where you’re likely to find friends, colleagues, and relatives all floating around. GOOGLE Social media’s big up-and-comer has really arrived over the fast few years. By combining the best of facebook and twitter into one site – and backing it by the power of the worlds largest search engine. PINTEREST Serving as a giant virtual idea and inspiration board. Pinterest has made a huge impact on social media in the last few years. Especially popular on women and the do- it- yourself crowd, it lets you share pictures, creative thought's or before and after pictures of projects that others can pin, save, or duplicate. POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE EFFECT OF USING SOCIAL MEDIA POSITIVE EFFECT •Learn new things, exchange ideas and helps hone their networking skills •Make connection to people worldwide •Expand your business globally •Helps to connect with extended family and friends NEGATIVE EFFECTS ATTENTION GETTER
