* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * New Social Issues * COM/400 * February 18th, 2013 * * * * * * * * * * * * New Social Issues Social issues are governmental discussions regarding ethical judgment around how individuals ought to live. New social issues include but not limited to immigration, graying of America, inequality gap, dilemma of the poor, globalization, transformation, environmental change, and dangers of the world. However, the subjects to discuss within this paper consist of copying and sharing information from the Internet, which is becoming more common in today’s world. The influence that open-source movement has on attitudes toward copyright; moreover, the relationship between creativity and innovation involving property rights. Additionally, personal, and professional effects of digital surveillance versus organizational needs for information and control; nonetheless, whether copyright protection, and digital surveillance will improve or repair future stability.
Though the Internet is the main subject of his argument, Carr provides insight on other developments as well. By touching on the inventions of such inventions as the map and the clock, he explains that both “changed the way we saw ourselves and the way we thought” (55) and provides example of his idea that the modernization of technology changes our thought process. He illustrates through historical references, the progression of how we read and write. Such examples include: writing on stones and wood, upgraded to papyrus, to tablets, to paper, to typewriters, to computers. Growing up in a time that was predominately print rather than computer, Carr is quick to favor print reading.
Make a list of all the main ideas related to your project topic: The main purpose of the sources is that each one covers a point of the topic and gives supporting details and arguments about the idea of the influence of technology on our social, economic and personal life. The major conclusions that our sources come to is that: • Social media has transformed badly our way of living and doing business • Communication technology influences in various aspects politics • Politics and technology intersect in the international effort
Kinnell Micah M English 100 Molina, Jordan September 25, 2013 What is the real me? News feed, status updates, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, when one hears theses word one usually thinks about social media. What is social media though? Social media is forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos). Through the use of social media one can create an identity.
The Cyberself: The Self-ing Project Goes Online. In Symbolic Interaction in Digital Age (pp. 93-110); Vitak, J. (2008). Facebook Friends: How Online Identities Impact Offline Relationships.
Erika Schrothe COM 051 Professor October 17, 2010 Social Network or Social Butterfly: Problems and Solutions to Digital Displacement Patrick Tucker’s article “The Over-Mediated World” examines Michael Bugeja’s 2005 book Interpersonal Divide: The Search for Community in the Technological Age. In his article, Tucker asks and attempts to answer the question of whether or not our constant connectedness is making society more knowledgeable, or less so. Tuckers focuses in on the media, the problems and abuses of inter-connectedness and what this means for higher education. While Tucker suggests that education and information are key to solving digital displacement, it seems ironic that the solution to the problem is the cause behind it. Media is a very broad term.
It is created in a social procedure in a given institutional environment on the premise of the thoughts, values, hobbies, and information of their makers, both their initial makers and their resulting makers. In this procedure we must incorporate the users of the innovation, who suitable and adjust the innovation as opposed to embracing it, and by so doing they alter it and produce it in an unending procedure of association between mechanical generation and social utilisation. In this way, to evaluate the significance of Internet in the public eye, it is important to review the particular qualities of Internet as an innovation. At that point, the information placed in the connection of the change of the general social structure, and additionally in relationship to the culture normal for this social structure. In reality, people live in another social structure, the worldwide system society, described by the ascent of another society, the culture of
An all-encompassing definition of social media has yet to evolve however several academics have offered various definitions on what they believe social media is. According to Kaplan & Haenlein (2010) social media 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’. Coman & Paun (2010) offer a similar definition ‘Social media are the various forms of user generated content and the collection of websites and applications that enables people to interact and share information online’. The purpose of Public Relations has been described by Grunig & Hunt (1984) as ‘the management of communication between an organization and its publics’. Theaker (2001) offers a similar definition ‘Public relations is the planned and sustained effort to establish and maintain goodwill and understanding between an organization and its publics’.
Research Challenges in Social Media Social media scraping and analytics provides a rich source of academic research challenges for social scientists, computer scientists and funding bodies. There are two types of challenges in big data analytics that includes Technical and Ethical Challenges. Technical Challenges 1. Bias and Polarization - The personalized content predicted with the aid of algorithms based on the past behavior of a user can create polarization which means that two different users could be getting fully different search results for an equal factor. However, modern deep-learning techniques, which do not entirely rely on the past data, and context aware computing and algorithms, can address these issues.
These are quite of few social media sites I know of, which Face book, Twitter, Instagram, and snap chat. Social media is a technology of internet based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations that allow us to create and exchange user- generated writings. Social media, on the other hand, is a two-way street that gives you the ability to communicate. They offer great changes to communication between businesses, organizations, communities, and individuals. In Josh Roses’: How social media is having a positive impact on our culture, in Current Issues Page.612.