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Regulation, Good practice and Censorship

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What kinds of questions does it raise about the internet and freedom of speech?  Where do you stand on this issue?  There should be regulation around it and warnings if its hateful to race religion or culture  Cambridge Analytica a year on: 'a lesson in institutional failure'  All the organisations we though we could trust, took our information and was selling it. GDPR (data protection act)  It was a report that drew on hours of testimony from Cambridge Analytica, directors, Facebook executives and dozens of expert witnesses.  On the 2 pivotal campaigns of 2016 of Brexit and Trump election.  It exploited Facebook data harvesting from millions of people across the world to profile and target them with political messages and misinformation. Without their knowledge or consent.  Facebook got fined 500k which is nothing to them.  Equally, hate speech is covered by law and this applies to social media.  Hate speech in...

Negative Impacts

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What are some of the negatives associate with social media and globalisation?  . Fake news  . Online bullying  . viruses / security  . Celebrities  . Body image pressure  . Privacy  . Productivity . Connection  . being influenced by influencers - buying products they say is good.  Trolling / Cyber-Bullying   When an individual/company is persistently targeted in a negative way online, usually through social media channels.  The number of social media platforms available has led to a proliferation in this, as has the fact that users enjoy a degree of anonymity when posting via social media sites.  Case study: Ariana Grande   After she split with rapper boyfriend Mac Miller, and the latter died through a drug overdose. Grande was trolled online. As a result, she disabled her Instagram comments for a period of time.  Cyber Bullying - When an individual online is targeted through hurtful or threat...

Globalisation

My Definition Globalisation - How the world is becoming more and more advanced and interconnected through technological advancements. How media is distributed globally.  Exam Board Definition Globalisation - The process of international integration arising from the interchange and exchange of products, ideas politics and culture. Globalisation is also seen as a way that international boundaries that once existed are broken down by the advent of new technologies.  Social media has contributed to this, with the way in which users of a network can connect in an instant  People who create content - Prosumers  Advantages  People being able to meet and interact with new people online  Creates a much easier way for businesses to access the markets.  Can easily interact with family and friends   Wider job awareness for people who are looking.  Entertainment purposes as well as being informative on real world problems.  Easier to u...

Purposes and Uses: Personal vs Professional vs Celebrity

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Personal vs Professional On a personal level, social media is used by individuals to document aspects of their day-to-day lives so, sharing videos of their holidays that nobody else wants to see, chronicling in unnecessary detail what they've had to eat that morning. Peoples opinions on political issues as well for example. Essentially, it is a breeding ground for vanity. There is a degree to which there is a cross over between personal and professional - in which people use their social media accounts to further their own business interests. This might be an existing celebrity, though increasingly, the lines are becoming blurred - with celebrity. bloggers, bloggers, YouTubers etc. How do Youtubers make money?  To be making money on youtube you need to be apart of the Youtube partnership programme. This is a partnership which works with creators to allow them to make earnings on videos depending on how many views and likes the channel and videos they produc...

CW Social Media: Purposes and Uses

Whats the difference between  how social media is used by normal individuals and how its used by industries and creative professionals?  Individuals use social media as a source of potential interaction with their followers and as an influencer / brand. People listen to what they have to say and value their opinions and therefore they become a brand in their own right.  Industries use social media as a form of promotion and direct interaction with customers.  Social media influencers might promote a film they are in for example which relates to the company as well as. News distribution for example the election going on in USA.  Use to collaborate and elevate their branding  You can promote your influences and opinions across multiple platforms.  Cross promotion - A youtuber called professor broman is an influencer who streams mainly but also cross promotes by advertising his drink company for coffee.  Case Study: Aven...

Creating and distributing via social media

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Wikinomics  This theory was developed by tapscott and williams in 2006 A wiki is a web page which displays information. it contains information such as specific bios on people as well as updates  Traditional collaberation has been super seeded on a huge scale     Whiles some leaders fear the heaving growth of massive online communities, wikinomics proves this fear is folly.  Smart firms can harness collective capability and genius to spur innovation, growth and success Wikinomics proves that smart firms can use the power of collaberation to innovate, grow and succeed   Wikinomics is based off of a $9 million research project. Wikinomics shows how a mass of people can work in an economy like never before. They are creating TV news stories, sequencing the human genome, remixing their favourite music, designing new software, finding a curew fore disease and more. Wikinomics is the road map for doing business in the twenty-first century.   d...