How social media/networking change the world

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How Social Media/Networking Change the World
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Acquisti, Alessandro, and Ralph Gross. “Imagined communities: Awareness, information sharing, and privacy on the Facebook.” International workshop on privacy enhancing technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, (2006): 36-58.
This article talks about the security and privacy issues of online social networking site like Facebook, MySpace, and Friendster. This research especially concentrates on the application of Facebook as it attempts to determine behavioral and demographic disparities between the community and non-community members, assess the effect of privacy issues on participant conducts, and contrast member communicated mentality to their actual behavior and mentality (Acquisti and Gross 38). Results of this study show that a person’s privacy issues are only a weak determinant of his or her affiliation with the social network. This piece is useful because it has valid and reliable information about the relationship between social networking sites and people’s privacy and security. It will be utilized in the research project to explain how these privacy issues can be of adverse impacts on even large companies and governments.
Fischer, Eileen, and A. Rebecca Reuber. “Social interaction via new social media:(How) can interactions on Twitter affect effectual thinking and behavior?.” Journal of business venturing 26.1 (2011): 1-18.
This piece is an article talking about the negative impacts of social media on the social skills of individuals.

The authors provide data that supports their focus, which relates to the reality that individuals prefer to contact over a telephone as compared to face-to-face (Fischer and Reuber 5). The authors mention that this can lead to many social concerns as many more are born in the social era. The study also explores individual experiences of those using the social networking sites who have been victims of emotional pressure due to the things that take place on those platforms. The authors offer ways that can help people get rid of the smartphones and laptops to sustain their face-to-face relations. The authors have also utilized credible sources to support their claims in the paper. They develop the credibility of their claims by introducing studies conducted by others that helped them accomplish the analysis. While the article is biased because it mainly discusses the negative aspects of social media, it will help the researcher recognize some of the major concerns associated with the social media and networking.
Khamis, Sahar, and Katherine Vaughn. “Cyberactivism in the Egyptian revolution: How civic engagement and citizen journalism tilted the balance.” Arab Media and Society 14.3 (2011): 1-25.
The authors of this piece claim that the new media role in the Egyptian revolution was significant in three ways. These include facilitating cyber activism as a stimulator for street engagement, promoting civic activism by increasing political expression, mobilization, and protest organization, as well as encouraging new types of citizen journalism as a context for documentation and expression (Khamis and Vaughn 4). Furthermore, this article examines the way these new media platforms allowed for citizen journalism via offering mediums within which people could record protest, distribute their images and word, and propagate information to the external world via transnational media. The conclusion made by the authors is that the essentially leaderless form of the Egyptian rebellion is proof that they were an honest expression of the will of the public (Khamis and Vaughn 6). The social media facilitated the empowerment of protestors by the production of public playgrounds for free expression, marked via free sharing of opinions on social networking sites. The social media also enhanced the empowerment by offering means for individuals to link with like-minded people, marked via gathering in public points planned by social media. Similarly, the protestors were empowered by social media through the support for capacities of protestors to plan, arrange, and implement protests. Finally, the social media played a role in enabling the public to involve in citizen journalism, marked from the propagation of mobile phone camerawork and video online, and across mainstream media (Khamis and Vaughn 10). The article will help the researcher complete the project because it contains a global overview of how social media influences the political arena of different regions across the world.
O’Keeffe, Gwenn Schurgin, and Kathleen Clarke-Pearson. “The impact of social media on children, adolescents, and families.” Pediatrics 127.4 (2011): 800-804.
This article is founded on a medical report by the American Academy of Pediatrics and is documented by two experienced managing directors. It discusses the different negative and positive aspects that social media delivers to the daily lives of families, adolescents, and children. The study indicates that the application of social medical enables adolescents and children to improve their communication and socialization skills via exchange of ideas and coming forward at various circumstances (O’Keeffe and Clarke-Pearson 801). However, the medical report identifies that cyberbullying is a major adverse effect on the daily lives of children, alongside sexting and depression. This piece further provides some parts on the way pediatricians can assist parents in knowing how they ought to utilize social media and the way they should permit their children to apply social media (O’Keeffe and Clarke-Pearson 803). This article shows a beneficial and dependable source since it is founded on a valid medical report by the American Academy of Pediatrics. It provides some significant information about both positive and negative impacts of social media on the daily lives of adolescents and children. Therefore, it not biased because it considers both the negative and positive aspects of the social media. It will help the researcher compare the positive and negative impacts of social media on the world.
Oliver, Mary Beth, and Arthur A. Raney, eds. Media and social life. Routledge, (2014): 642-645.
This article concentrates on the way social media affects the daily lives of people. Three major issues have been noted to represent the effect of social media on the society. The first issue is the reality whether the social media turns persons to be less or more social. The second issue is founded on whether the social media links people online by further detaching them offline (Oliver and Raney 642). The third concern questions the audiences how social the platforms offered by social media are. These questions show that this article is entirely about the concerns for people’s lives. The editors have used scientific research to support their answers. This piece is a useful source since the claims are valid and supported by social empirical studies. Every issue is supported by a valid illustration from a scholarly source. Nevertheless, this article is biased because it entirely talks about the negative effects of social media on daily lives of people. This article aims at depicting how social media can alter people’s daily lives with their work, family, and other significant features of their lives.
Valenzuela, Sebastián, Arturo Arriagada, and Andrés Scherman. “The social media basis of youth protest behavior: The case of Chile.” Journal of Communication 62.2 (2012): 299-314.
This article explores the relationship between social media application and youth demonstration in Chile. The piece is founded on the assessment of data from a 2010 poll of urban youth in Chile aged between 18 and 29 (Valenzuela Arriagada and Scherman 300). The survey is structured to analyze demonstration behaviors, cultural and political norms, Facebook use, discontent and complaints, new media use, and individual aspects like social and psychological elements. The authors examine the social media’s role as a way of political action, which is also seen as a pattern of a given interest given the detachment of youth from orthodox politics. The authors have attained this via exploration of the procedure by which links between political transformation and social media are created, and the techniques through which these are intervened (Valenzuela Arriagada and Scherman 308). The article also examines the unexpected circumstances under which social media can turn to be vital to demonstrations by investigating the controlling roles and ideologies. This is a useful article with reliable information about how social media affect the youth across the world and how their behaviors have changed due to social media.

Works Cited
Acquisti, Alessandro, and Ralph Gross. “Imagined communities: Awareness, information sharing, and privacy on the Facebook.” International workshop on privacy enhancing technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, (2006): 36-58.
Fischer, Eileen, and A. Rebecca Reuber. “Social interaction via new social media:(How) can interactions on Twitter affect effectual thinking and behavior?.” Journal of business venturing 26.1 (2011): 1-18.
Khamis, Sahar, and Katherine Vaughn. “Cyberactivism in the Egyptian revolution: How civic engagement and citizen journalism tilted the balance.” Arab Media and Society 14.3 (2011): 1-25.
O’Keeffe, Gwenn Schurgin, and Kathleen Clarke-Pearson. “The impact of social media on children, adolescents, and families.” Pediatrics 127.4 (2011): 800-804.
Oliver, Mary Beth, and Arthur A. Raney, eds. Media and social life. Routledge, (2014): 642-645.
Valenzuela, Sebastián, Arturo Arriagada, and Andrés Scherman. “The social media basis of youth protest behavior: The case of Chile.” Journal of Communication 62.2 (2012): 299-314.