I think that social media has changed how the news gets around not really the quality. Social media brought significant changes into the ways that we communicate and retrieve information. Such media is very popular and people benefit from it as it is convenient to use and easily available to everyone. The most significant benefit of using social media is that it is an accessible and inexpensive source of communication that enables unrestricted flow and exchange of information. It allows people to communicate regardless of their global position and to access information and news from the entire world. We no longer have to wait for the evening news because we can now access information or news much quicker via internet. While social media has made news faster and accessible, it also has a down side.
They have the opportunity to input their version of the news onto their blog, podcast, or social networking site. And this information may not be entirely true. Also it is very easy to ‘Photoshop’ any picture, so if these citizen journalists wanted to make their news seem more real, they could just add there Photoshop picture. But overall news in social media is going to keep growing, whether or not the information is fact or fiction. And because social media is growing and not going anywhere soon, the news in the blogs, podcasts, and social networks is going to keep growing as well.
On our part this is very lazy for us not to walk down the street to the newspaper box and pay our $.50 for the paper or have the paper person deliver the paper right to our front door and then sit in the comfort of our own home and read the paper or better yet turn on the local radio station and receive the latest news. So saying that the new hype of social media delivering our news and gossip has not only decreased the quality but also the information contained, compared to the old fashion ways of seeing it in hardcopy.
Well said. I agree with your point on "writters" posting something that they have altered to make their "news" seem more realistic than it may be. I personally have a problem with this trend. There are too many people out there that abuse the ability to post their point of view or important information. There seems to be a great deal of websites out there that let anyone post whatever they feel without responsibility or any worry about the validity of the information. Unfortunately this type of wreckless posting ends up giving a website or other form of social media a bad name.
ReplyDeleteAnyone that chooses to post information on any form of social media should be held accountable for any false representation or false information that they choose to post. The only way that social media will improve the quality of news is if the information is true and unaltered.
I agree with a lot of what you said. You say with social media people can add whatever information they want whether it's true or not. And that's true but the problem of false information in news didn't just come with social media. News and radio have the power to not quite as much falsify but manipulate or twist their news to make you think or feel a certain way. We had that sort of problem before social media but social media does have this problem too like you said and a lot worse because of that fact that it's open for almost ever citizen.
ReplyDeleteI agree with you in most of thing said by you. But I do not agree on the sentence that people do editing to make make their news real. The other thing is that the social media is not easily available in developing countries and is not affordable to all.They rely on the radio and television to show the news and getting information. However I agree with you in some circumstances.
ReplyDeleteI agree with a lot of things that you have said, like the fact that it allows anyone, anywhere and anytime to see the news. But I do not agree with saying that we are too lazy to go get the mail. I believe that with the invention of the internet and other social media web sites it has allowed for people to find out what is going on in the world easier and at their own time. But besides that you have made some good points.
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