Running Head: SOCIAL MEDIA & CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION 1 SOCIAL MEDIA & CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION SHAWN MYERS SSC 101 HUMAN BEHAVIOR PERSPECTIVE SAINT LEO UNIVERSITY SOCIAL MEDIA & CROSS CULTURAL COMMUNICATION 2 Abstract Social media technologies are important tools in our lives. They make it possible to maintain social relationships with existing friends and family, while at the same time building new relationships. The social lives of different
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CASE STUDY 2: Too Much Technology (Chapter 4, Pg. 181) 1. What are the some of the arguments for and against the use of digital media? Technology has both positive and negative sides. Positive opinion about technology as we are able to find many sources of information quickly and easily as well as saving production cost. Technology that is negative opinion can influence our behavior, destroy our way of thinking, and the more severe impact of computer technology is also able to give rise to
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Authorship and Digital Media With the widespread adoption of personal computers, especially those connected to broadband Internet, the media landscape has changed drastically. All media-related industries, from newspaper to television to music and more, are experiencing this shift and are desperately attempting to react to the changing media landscape that has placed much of the control on the consumers rather than the producers of these media forms. Two digital media forms experiencing particularly
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do the most successful companies use social media? By Nora Ganim Barnes 8 Spring 2010 Tweeting and blogging to the top The Center for Marketing Research at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, under the direction of researchers Barnes and Mattson, recently conducted a new in-depth and statistically significant study on the usage of social media in fast-growing corporations. This new study revisits the Center’s study of Inc. 500 social media usage for the third consecutive year, making
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Social Media and Relationship Imagine that you live in the past. In those days, you would live with barely any electricity in your house. You need couple days to travel from one place to the other places before technology was ever invented. Moreover, you have to go to some places to make a call because there were only a few places that have telephone. Add to that, either you wanted to send or receive letters to someone you love, you have to wait several days for the postman to come to your house
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21st century, technology is all around us, we live, eat and breathe with the help of technology. Technology is constantly on society’s mind and therefore has a large role in effecting the writing environment. As technology evolves, writing pursuits quickly afterwards, starting on walls and paper, writing is now much more than ink on a page. Writing adjusted to suit our technological desires and needs, allowing us to communicate and examine things in new ways. Communication technology has been shaped
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Summary Electronic Information sharing and social media continues to grow rapidly as a medium for companies to communicate and interact with their customers. They are utilized by 72% of the companies as a marketing/communication medium. One of the main reasons for this success is the speed at which information can be communicated. A study conducted by McKinsey Global Institute indicates that there is a potential to create a value of 900 billion to 1.3 trillion dollars by increasing productivity
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being constantly updated and peoples desire to access this information where they want to has created a demand for a new visionary technology which is fast, convenient and more important up to date. As the movement away from printed media increase and the explosion of PDA devices into the market, there is potential for a new company to link the media world with wireless technology. A new innovative software allowing users to subscribe to the most up to the minute information in an easy user friendly
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Social media is an inevitable reality to the high-tech, innovative American society. Even non-users are somewhat educated on the topic of social media due to its prevalence among citizens, businesses, and news sources. This popularity has fueled debate over whether or not social media is helpful or harmful to the American public. People who believe social media is helpful boast many benefits to its usage. Police departments are able to transmit useful information to the public and harvest tips that
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sports, coronations of emperors, subjects usually go to open spaces or plaza to hear latest news * China – 1st country to truly develop media * Peking Gazette – world’s 1st newspaper cave arts cave dwellings artifacts (stones) prehistoric coliseum / amphitheaters Industrial * Present: triumvirate of PRINT, RADIO AND TELEVISION. Tri-media exists up to the early 90’s * Print media / newspaper is the 1st to evolve * Discovery of printing press: expansion of newspapers
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