...RESEARCH ESSAY “SOCIAL NETWORKING IS BENEFICIAL FOR SOCIETY” Social Networking is beneficial for society Presently, online activity becomes lifestyle on society, particularly accessing social networking sites. Cameron (2013) states that the digital analytics company Experian published a report in April 2013, that 27% people in United States, United Kingdom, and Australia spent online time on social networking sites. Social networking refers to the platforms of interactions between people where they create, share, exchange information and thoughts in cyberspace or online communities (Digital Communications 2014). The utilization of social networking sites to connect with family, relatives, friends and also to meet new people has massive impact on how people do interaction in society (Australian Psychological Society 2102, p. 2). According to Nations (n.d.) explain that social networking has the open-ended characteristic that makes it can be popular at the moment, so that easy to used by the new users. This research essay will explain there are three reasons why social networking is beneficial for society: social networking can improve relationships, it can be used for study aims, and also social networking is utilized for sharing information. To begin with, social networking can improve relationships. Nowadays, teenagers and adults are using social network to get relations in their society, such as make new friends, connect to their family or friends. They may feel...
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...Then came a new age called the media convergence age with the rise of new, digitally based companies such as Google, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix and Amazon and also due to the rapid growth of social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, the proliferation of user-created content, and multi-screen accessing of media content. So convergence basically refers to the combination of computing, communications and content around networked digital media platforms (Flew, 2015). The other different range of trends associated with media convergence include; increased access to high-speed broadband internet, digitization, globalization, accelerated innovation, the rise of user-created content and the changing nature of the media consumers, and the blurring of distinctions between...
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...emphatic concept has caught more interest from advertisers than engagement as it embodies a sense of involvement. (Calder 2012). Meanwhile, digital technology continues to emerge, the enveloping technologies has impacted the communication between individuals in daily life, on the other hand, it has modified how advertiser engage with targeted consumers in a digital age. When it comes to advertising, Digital technologies have fundamentally revolutionized how and where advertisers implement the practices in the advertising industry. It defines as “digital advertising”, a form of advertising where businesses implement internet technologies to present promotional advertisement to consumers, digital advertising also includes brand messages presented through social media networking, online advertising on search engines, as well as banner advertising on mobile and website. (Andrew 2010). When it comes to advertising expenditure, digital platforms offer a greater opportunity, timeliness, and relevance to achieve greater understanding to advertising expenditure. This essay will be discussing how advertisers accommodate the trending in digital development and how to engage with the potential consumer in digital ages through three components. First of all, advertising on social media networking perhaps is an essential for advertisers to engage with as social media has been heavily using among young consumers. Second of all, the concept of “over the top” has upended the traditional television...
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...2015 MYRON NAICKER CONTENTS: Essay Question Page 1 – 4 Reference List Page 5 QUESTION ONE: In today’s fast growing economy, technology has prominently advanced thereby compelling media to develop a sense of convergence when it comes to broadcasting news to the nation. In this essay I will firstly be discussing what is journalism, followed by the description of news is. Secondly I will show how news reporting has advanced from its traditional ways to a new and modernised method that allows people to be more involved with the news, and thirdly I will show how the internet and other phenomena such as social media has influenced news production and content through the use of examples. Journalism refers to the works of writing that informs...
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...SOCIAL MEDIA IN HIGHER EDUCATION Neil Selwyn This essay was first published in The Europa World of Learning 2012. For further information see the final page of this PDF or visit www.worldoflearning.com. © Routledge 2011, all rights reserved. INTRODUCTION Few people will have failed to notice the recent emergence of social media—especially much-publicized applications such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia. Even the most casual of internet users will now be aware of the notion of social network sites and blogs, maybe even wikis and virtual worlds. Since being declared Time Magazine‘s ‘Person of the Year’ at the end of 2006, social media have come to dominate the ways in which digital technology is now used around the world. Of course, there are distinct geographical and cultural variations within this global adoption—whereas people in the USA may log on to Facebook and Twitter, Chinese users are more likely to access Renren and NetEase. Yet in all these guises, the general principles of social media remain the same. These are internet applications that rely on openly shared digital content that is authored, critiqued and re-configured by a mass of users. Social media applications therefore allow users to converse and interact with each other; to create, edit and share new forms of textual, visual and audio content; and to categorize, label and recommend existing forms of content. Perhaps the key characteristic of all these social media practices is that of ‘mass...
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...FACEBOOK The social networking website Facebook has become enormously popular throughout the world. As of June 2012, there were 955 million people using Facebook on a monthly basis (a 29% increase on the previous year), and on average 552 million users on a daily basis (a 32% increase) on the previous year (United States Securities and Exchange Commission, 2012). As with previous major technological developments, such as radio and television, there is now discussion within the tertiary education sector about how websites like Facebook can be used in learning and teaching. Social networking websites can be defined as online spaces which “allow individuals to present themselves, articulate their social networks, and establish or maintain connections with others” . The use of social networking sites within universities is of interest because their growing ubiquity is already making both positive and negative impacts on tertiary level learning and teaching. As a result, learners and teachers need to critically evaluate their practices in an increasingly online world. This essay will argue that Facebook can have a potentially positive impact on learning and teaching at tertiary level if used appropriately. The essay begins with an overview of how the use of Facebook can contribute to learning and teaching. It then explains the benefits of Facebook for students in terms of socialising, engagement and creativity. The essay then addresses the digital literacy skills students need in...
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...The wonderful world of social networking The text “Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook”, is about Facebook addicted Cynthia Newton. She gets sucked into Facebook so much, that she neglects her daughter when she needs help with her homework. Her daughter goes to her room and sends her mother e-mails, asking for help. Newton doesn’t reply though, because she’s busy on Facebook. Newton knows it’s a problem; she has tried to cut down on her Facebook use, but failed. She checks her Facebook 10 times a day. She finds old schoolmates online, she even found a friend, who confessed he was her secret admirer in kindergarten. She often thinks about going cold turkey, but just the thought makes her uncomfortable. A family and marriage therapist, called Paula Pile, has clients who have the same problem as Newton. Pile has no cure for them. Therapists are seeing more and more people who are addicted to Facebook. In text one “What is social networking?” they say, that there is a lot of benefits to social networking. It is a good way to make friends from around the world, a good way to learn about other languages and cultures. It is also a good way to keep in touch with friend and family. Though there is a fear of viruses and sexual predators, but it’s just as dangerous in the real world too, you just need to know what you are clicking on and who you are talking too. In text 2 “Five clues that you are addicted to Facebook”, they make it clear that Facebook, is the devil’s work...
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...18662, on BLACKBOARD LEARN, go to: https://accessuh.uh.edu/login.php Lab: Section: 18663, Thursday, 8:30-11:30, Sugar Land Campus, George Bldg Room 320. Prerequisites: ENGL 1303/1304 or equivalent and working knowledge of Microsoft Office. Course Goals: This course provides students with an understanding of the technological systems that extend the range of human communications, with an emphasis on the visual communications processes. The course is an overview, which only begins to scrape the surface of the field of graphic communication/digital media. You will walk away from this course knowing a little bit about a lot of things, but you will not master any one area. If any topics are of particular interest to you, your instructor will be happy to offer you further opportunities for additional study. Students completing the course will describe, demonstrate, compare, analyze, integrate, and critique Digital Media technologies related to: ▪ Principles of design;...
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...Social Networking and Education: Emerging Research within CSCL Abstract: In this paper I introduce a youth-initiated practice: online social networking that is transforming our society in important ways and has vast implications for learning research and education. I introduce the social and technical features that characterize social networking systems and outline results from emerging research that suggests the social and intellectual practices in which participants naturally engage and how these relate to the competencies increasingly valued in formal education. Next, I discuss one research projects which I am currently pursuing that build on early work and suggest how educational programs might employ such practices to advantage. Finally, I discuss what I see as the educative value of this technology in certain contexts and suggest a course for future research and development. My overall goals are to inform other researchers interested in pursuing similar projects and to stimulate interdisciplinary conversation about where such agendas fit within and advance the aims of CSCL. Social Networking Systems: The Next Wave of CSCL? Recent conference symposia, papers and journal articles within the CSCL community have demonstrated keen interest in learning from students’ everyday out-of-school socio-technical practices about how to better develop future technology-powered contexts for learning (Barron, 2006; Fields & Kafai, 2007; Forte & Bruckman, 2008; Gardner & Kolodner, 2007;...
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...Abstract Facebook.com, a popular online social network site, provides its users with a means for representing their identities in the digital world.[1] With the “Profile,” each user can manipulate his or her online identity that concurrently delineates personal information and converses with other online identities or “Friends.” Gender, date of birth, hobbies, interests, and relationship status are some of the identifying pieces of information that users display to fill out their Profile. The Profile not only depicts the user, but also shapes the representation of other individuals on Facebook. Scholars have recently begun to study the Facebook phenomenon using surveys and statistical analyses, but none have used ethnography as a means for analysis. This paper draws upon ethnographic data to provide a phenomenological explanation to the Facebook experience. It argues that the digital world is a large part of the experience of young Americans and that the Internet is more social than commonly thought.[2] Moreover, this paper problematizes the static nature of the Profile, arguing that the Profile converses directly with others’ Profiles in a constantly changing digital context that is simultaneously recreated and interpreted. Introduction Embodied conversation between individuals begins when they weave performance and interpretation into an intricate dance that allows individuals to consider voice and body cues. Meaning is interpreted from the context of the conversation...
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...Unit 2 Assignment 2: New Technology in My Field-Research and Essay 2015 JAN 5 (VerticalNews) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Internet Weekly News – This article is focused on Cyber phycology and Social Networking. This study originated from Herzliyya, Israel. According to the study they documented the experience that groups of people who were heavy in conflict communicating using virtual-human interactions. In other words the heads of these organizations are speaking to each other using holograms or very similar technology. “A virtual human representing an outgroup member (a Palestinian) interacted with 60 Jewish Israeli participants in an experimental study”- Quote from the first paragraph of the article. The relevance is that these two groups (Palestinian’s and Israeli’s) have a very sensitive past. Communicating back and forth using virtual-humans is fascinating, because we want to see the difference between traditional Face-to-Face and digital contact (mimicry technology) from a distance. After a series of tests, what the reporters have found, was that using mimicry technology (technology that mimics behavior) increased the levels of empathy one showed toward each other rather than the traditional method of Face-To-Face method. This is a profound discovery because this can really influence world peace treaties worldwide and also use technology to develop third world countries simply by the new increase in demand for upgrading systems and networks globally to...
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...advanced due to the various new technologies being made. As a result, social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram are emerging and are being used by people all over the world. Some people allow everyone to see their information and what they publish while others only allow their friends to see their information and what they publish. Online profiles are a reflection of people’s true character; therefore, viewing social networking profiles is an acceptable practice for potential employers and college admissions officers. By checking social networking sites, employers and admissions officers can get an idea of the applicant’s true character. In many instances, social networking profiles can make or break the decision about whether a person is hired or not. In a study conducted by Kaplan in Source A, a survey of admissions counselors from the top 500 colleges in the United States, showed that social networking sites had a positive impact of 25 percent of the time on admission, while 38 percent of the time, it had a negative effect. Also from Source A, the director of admissions from Harvard, Marlyn McGrath, states that students who post self-incriminating information online show a lack of common sense. As said in Source F by Danah Boyd, “The internet has made it possible for [people] to create digital bodies that reflect a whole lot more than [their] demographics.” Therefore, by checking the social media sites such as Facebook, college admissions officers and employers...
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...Critically assess the effect of Social Media on society Social media as defined by Andreas M and Michael (2010, p. 61) is “a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content.” Social media platforms include chat rooms, blogging web sites, social networking sites, forums, and also text messages and e-mail (Luxton, June and Fairall, 2012). The most popular social networking site, Facebook has made such an influence on society that from 2004 to 2011 the number of users registered to the site increased from 1 million to about 1 billion users worldwide (Yahoo Finance, 2012). With such vast figures social media is bound to have an impact on the way society operates, either positively or negatively, or both. These will be critically analyzed in this essay, identifying the most crucial impacts it has on our society. With the rapid increase in the awareness and use of social networking sites, it has provided positive contributions to how society functions. First and foremost, social networking has grown to become a critical part of a business’s marketing strategies, and if managed efficiently, will prove to be a major factor for its success. Social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter have provided an easy-to-access platform for people to share their views, preferences, and experiences about brands and products. Once this information gets widespread through...
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...Synthesis essay: why the revolution will not be tweeted Technology is being used all across the globe in everyday life. With the development of technology, the development of social media became very popular. In “Small Change: Why the Revolution will not be Tweeted”, Malcolm Gladwell stresses that “real” revolutions do not depend on social media to be resolved or started; however, small revolutions can depend on social media or networking. Although Dennis Baron is sending the same message in “Reforming Egypt in 140 Characters?” there is one point that Baron makes that differs from that of Gladwell’s; Baron actually believes that a game changing revolution can occur with the use of social media. Gladwell believes that in order for a revolution to be successful, it does not have to rely on social media networks. In the beginning of his writing, he discusses the sit-ins that occurred in the 1960s. After acknowledging how fast the word spread about the sit-ins, Gladwell mentions that it happened without the help of “e-mail, texting, Facebook, or Tweeting” (314). Social media was probably not thought of in the 1960s. One of the biggest revolutions, the Civil Rights Movement, was accomplished without the need of social media. Also, it is easier to get participation on a social networking site rather that participation for something that is confronting a disgraced practice. Gladwell claims that it is easier for a person to donate blood rather than to protest for a certain...
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...[ THE INFLUENCE THAT SOCIAL NETWORKING PLAYS IN SOCIETY TODAY. HOW, AND TO WHAT EXTENT, HAS IT RE-DEFINED SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND IS THIS GENERATIONALLY SPECIFIC?]] | Tim Berners-Lee had a vision to create a system for linking information over the internet; his idea for creating the web was about anything potentially connected with anything, thus providing us with a new freedom and allow people space to create and communicate, he never anticipated that it would have a global impact as far as social networking is concerned! [Weaving the Web by Tim Berners–Lee, page 1] A social networking is basically an online service, platform, or site that focuses on building and reflecting of social networks or social relations among people, e.g. who share interests and/or activities. It essentially consists of a representation of each user (often a profile), his/her social links, and a variety of additional services. Most social network services are web based and provide means for users to interact over the internet, such as e-mail and instant messaging. These types of sites allow participants to share ideas, activities, events, and interests within their individual networks. The main types of social networking services are those which contain category places (such as former school year or classmates), means to connect with friends (usually with self-description pages) and a recommendation system linked to trust. Popular methods now combine many of these, with Facebook and Twitter widely...
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