...Social media and communication Reading one: Is Social Media Sabotaging Real Communication? Is Social Media Sabotaging Real Communication? Was published online at forbes.com on the Thirtieth of April 2012. Forbes.com is a reputable online journal affiliated with the business magazine of the same name. The author, Susan Tardanico is the CEO and founding partner of the Authentic Leadership Alliance (ALA), a leadership and communications consultancy group and an executive in residence at the Center for Creative Leadership. Tardanico is well respected and recognised public speaker and consultant on communications, her experience and wealth of knowledge regarding communication in the workplace strongly contribute to the credibility of this article. Reading two: The Internet and Social Life. The Internet and Social Life. Written by John A. Bargh and Katelyn Y.A. McKenna and published in Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 55, 2004. Annual Reviews is a non-profit organisation that has been in publication since 1932. Annual review is a highly recognised source of scientific information and is considered a reputable journal amongst the scientific community. Both authors are faculty members of the New York University at the time of publication. This article is very comprehensive and is able to cite valid references to support their claims. As both authors are highly qualified and respected within their fields, and the publication it is reported in is reputable this contributes the credibility...
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...THE IMPACT OF INTERNET USE ON CHILDREN/ADOLESCENTS By Miss Kaleyvani Geeseeny Sawmy Clinical Psychologist Children’s motives Few studies have been conducted – that can explain people’s motives for using internet. Research suggest that children use media for entertainment and relaxation purposes (to relieve boredom, to play games, or for social interaction) however little is known about what really motivate children to use Internet. Adolescents’ motives Use the Internet more for social interaction Social identity, peer interactions, and relationships become increasingly important - thus, it is likely that they become more interested in the Internet for communication purposes, such as e-mail or chat As they mature, they begin to use the Internet more for Gender Differences Boys Girls Entertainment More interested in playing video and computer games The Internet provides many opportunities to play online games To seek information, for example, for their homework ( as girls are more compliant so they will listen to parents and teachers) Social interaction ( since girls used to chat and keep in touch with friends) NEGATIVE BEHAVIOURS Exposure to Violence Addiction Social Relations Pornography Eating disorders Exposure to Violence With the growing use of the internet by children, there is an increase in online games. These games are very violent and expose children to explicit content and violent...
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...ABSTRACT The internet usage among teenagers increase from last decade, increase in internet usage has effect teenagers 1) that teenagers boys use internet for playing games mostly violated games whereas girls use internet for shopping and for chat online 2) teenagers use internet for anonymous identity experimentation 3) internet cause isolation and depression among teenagers. This study is aimed to explore the relationship between teenager’s internet usage and face to face communication. This study also explores the desire of teenagers to face to face communication, and the relationship between loneliness and excessive internet usage. This is quantitative study and survey method will be used. After the survey results will show that is there any effect of internet on teenager’s face to face communication and effect on their peer relations. Key words: communication, internet, face to face communication, loneliness, teenagers. CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Internet change the way people communicate with each other. In earlier days people use traditional means of communication like telegraph, letters, landline etc. now they ways of communication changed the world. Communication becomes faster and more accessible. Internet is one of them. People use internet for real time communication with friends, family and other relations. It seems that there is no single field that is not affected by internet.Chesebro and Bonsall (1989) argued that you talk to people through internet in the privacy...
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...use of internet, both positive and negative, on youth. Although the literature covers a wide range of impacts, this review will focus on ten major researches. These researches include Use of internet and its effects on our society: This paper emphasizes on the effects of Information Technology on citizens, adults and teens in perspective of their relations, entertainment, education, socialization and the problems that internet and technology can bring in our society. Technology can have both positive and negative effects on people of different walks of life at different times. The need is to understand the true impact of IT so that ever body gathers benefits that yield a healthy...
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...Why is the Internet so addicting? Two reasons: information and freedom. People go online to get information (music, news, stock prices, etc). Logging onto the Internet is like a kid going to a toy store; there is so much to do and explore that once you get in, you never want to leave. People also go online because the Internet offers freedom to do whatever they want, to say whatever they want and to be whoever they want. This could have a negative effect since people will act in certain ways and say certain things that they otherwise wouldn't do in real life. Furthermore, because the Internet offers so much freedom, you can find your ideal self much easier, but it's not the same as your social self. The difference is due to you talking to a computer screen and you talking to a real person. Thus, the experiences we encounter on the Internet are not the same as the ones we encounter in real life. Even though our overt use of the Internet can cause a conflict between your virtual self and your social self, many still excessively rely on the Internet for their activities. As a result of information and freedom, the Internet has become an unbreakable addiction for individuals and society. Computers are as common as televisions in households; in addition, laptops and Internet-ready cell phones enable the Internet to travel with us. "By 2000 it was estimated that the number of adults using the Internet exceeded 100 million in the United States alone" (The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth...
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...| To critically assess the impact of, what Marshall McLuhan refers to as, ‘electronic cultures’ on contemporary social life, it is necessary to first understand what McLuhan means by, ‘electronic cultures’. McLuhan was a Canadian, professor of English who extensively researched and wrote about the impact of media on society and man. McLuhan believed that to determine the impact of communication on social change the medium required analysis, not the content. He coined the phrase ‘the medium is the message’ that is, it is not the explicit message that has the greatest impact. It is the medium; the medium creates the level of human participation or action, independently of the overt message. Therefore, it is each different medium or method of sending and receiving information that defines the culture. The first is oral culture; communication is transmitted via sound, such as speech and language that requires face-to-face social interaction. The second is writing and printing culture; information is transmitted and received using written and printed word. It is highly visual. The electronic culture is the third (Macionis & Plummer, 2010, p. 764, McLuhan, 1995); it is today's period. A majority of information is transmitted and received by means of electronic mediums. When the medium or the way we receive information changes so does the way the brain receives it and process it. The transition from verbal to printed text, changed not only how we process information internally...
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...Running head: A SHIFT IN SOCIAL INTERACTION A Shift in Social Interaction: Enhanced or reduced by technology? Social Interaction: Enhanced or reduced by technology? Social interaction is a very important aspect of human life. It can help to shape individuals throughout their life, based on experience and communications with others. With the increase in technology and innovation we are beginning to see a shift in the ways people communicate and interact. “Social interaction is not defined by type of physical relation or behaviour, or by physical distance. It is a matter of a mutual subjective orientation towards each other.” (Rummel, 1976, 9.2) Is social interaction on the internet and with technology different from real face to face social interaction? For my research question, whether technology increases or reduces social interaction, I will focus on computers and the internet as well as cell phone use. I will assess the effects that the internet and technology have on the ways people interact and network. Online interaction provides an easy and anxiety free environment making it possible to open up and reveal true personalities. Technology also helps to expand communications and social networks. The internet and cell phones have had a monumental effect on social interaction and networking, but does this come with negative consequences and dangers? Internet, Cell Phones and Online Gaming on Social Interaction Internet’s Possibilities Human communication has been expanded...
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...The Effects of Online Communication versus Face-To-Face Communication Innovations and advances in the field of Information Communication Technology(ICT) have resulted into major revolutions and remarkable changes in communication and use of media may it be in organizations, work places or in general social interactions. It therefore becomes imperative to scrutinize and analyze the impact of this advancement in communication technology particularly in regards to the normal workplace settings, our social lives and how it affects communication patterns with and among employees, interpersonal relations and assess whether this technology has substituted and replaced the conventional face-to face means of communication. Lee & Leung et al. (2011) argue that communication is fundamental to people’s well- Just like other organism, human beings cannot continue to exist without interrelating with their surroundings. Receiving information from external sources is crucial to everyone’s survival and development. The society is made up of a collection of relationships which are based on communication. Our relations at our dwellings, workplace, and recreation have direct consequences on our state of well-being (Lee & Leung et al., 2011). Even though many theories have been advanced as to what are the strengths or limitations face-to-face versus online means of communication, so far there is no study analyzing and comparing the two (Baek & Wojcieszak et al., 2012). However, in their research...
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...Impact of Social Networking Sites In The Identity Formation CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION During the old days when teens spent hours alone in their rooms or with close friends dancing in front of the mirror, playing outside their houses, trying different outfits and modeling around the corner; trying on different personas in person is out, the web deletes the middle man. Now, there are a variety of online social media applications to enable communication between adolescents. Due to the ego-centric nature of these applications, social networking sites allow adolescents to extend their true personalities to the online world while also adding onto them. The impersonal nature of communicating from behind a computer screen can allow adolescents to create a completely new and unrestrained personality that they would never show in real life. Personal web pages give teens the control to present themselves in whatever way they choose to an actual audience that’s also controllable and far less intimidating than showing up in person to try out a new possible identity (Schmitt et al., 2008). The Internet has quickly become the most expeditious, central means of communication and access to information so it makes perfect sense that this trend in media would trickle down to impact the lives of youth everywhere. There are numerous reasons why the internet has become the chosen means by which adolescents discover their identity. Adolescents find that the internet and social personal...
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...Introduction The Internet is the decisive technology of the Information Age, as the electrical engine was the vector of technological transformation of the Industrial Age. This global network of computer networks, largely based nowadays on platforms of wireless communication, provides ubiquitous capacity of multimodal, interactive communication in chosen time, transcending space. The Internet is not really a new technology: its ancestor, the Arpanet, was fist deployed in 1969 (Abbate 1999). But it was in the 1990s when it was privatized and released from the control of the U.S. Department of Commerce that it diffused around the world at extraordinary speed: in 1996 the first survey of Internet users counted about 40 million; in 2013 they are over 2.5 billion, with China accounting for the largest number of Internet users. Furthermore, for some time the spread of the Internet was limited by the difficulty to lay out land-based telecommunications infrastructure in the emerging countries. This has changed with the explosion of wireless communication in the early twenty-fist century. Indeed, in 1991, there were about 16 million subscribers of wireless devices in the world, in 2013 they are close to 7 billion (in a planet of 7.7 billion human beings). Counting on the family and village uses of mobile phones, and taking into consideration the limited use of these devices among children under five years of age, we can say that humankind is now almost entirely connected, albeit with...
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...8/19/2012 Lisa Prince Week 4 assignment Social media has taken over the world over the past few tears. From social media sites like twitter, facebook, and youtube many different companies, and people have all benefited from the use of social media. Since the internet is filled with computer hackers, scams, and sexual predators the disadvantages of social media can outweigh the advantages of social media at times. However the disadvantages of social media have not stopped social media networks from taking over the internet. Having the ability to do anything you can imagine from a social network for your business use or personal life has come to life. Using social media to find lost, old friends or family members was the main idea of social media networks when it first hit the internet scene. Then the genius behind the scenes explored different options to open up the door for more benefits of social media, like advertising a business, internet dating, job searching, night life, or even to receive news before it airs live on television networks. The internet has always been a dangerous thing to use even in the early 90’s some websites posted messages to use their website with caution, but with the evolution of social media it makes it hard for any website to protect their users. From computer hackers, sexual predators, and con artist make hard to trust anything on the internet or social media. Computer hackers love social media users who like to pay bills online, or...
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...Sociology Topic Paper Chapter 5: Discuss how social life and interaction would be affected if the Internet permanently disappeared today. Social life and interaction today is as great as it is today because of the Internet. If the internet were to disappear completely, people would not have as many ways to communicate with people, it would not be easy to communicate when we are busy with other things and cannot meet up in person, and the information to stay on track would be lost. Before the Internet, people did not have much to choose from in ways of communicating. If you did not meet with someone in person, you had the choice of writing a letter or calling on the phone. If Internet disappeared today, most of us would probably have to resort to these things again in order to keep in touch with one another or handle any business that needed to be done. The Internet is without a doubt the fastest and easiest way to communicate in today’s society. It allows us to send emails, intant message, web chat with video, so much more. There are social networking sites now, like facebook and twitter, that allow us to keep in touch as well. People who have family members in places all over the world find the internet to be a very helpful tool in most situations. Most of them have a hard time visiting because of work and their families, so the Internet allows them to be able to chat with each other and see how the family is doing without leaving their homes to do so. With emailing and...
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...Internet Safety for Teens Nakayla , Paris November.3, 2017 Internet safety Internet safety is one of the most important things to know about. Especially if you are a teen. Here are a few tips and tricks that you should know about the internet and its safety for teens. Main subtopic you have to be focused on is Social media alerts, Teen suicide and cyberbullying, Never trust a Predators, how to be safe on social media. Teen suicide When teens are on the internet some people are getting ridiculously, bullied and this bullying causes teen suicide Hurts people because of a post a judgment of what they feel The teen internet safety edgerly falls in with teen suicide Telling people your...
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...Social Networking And Its Effects On Young Generation Media Essay Published: 23, March 2015 Social Networking Sites is a web-based service, with a large online community. Websites like Face book, MySpace or Twitter provide social networking services like bring people together all over the world by allowing them to get to know each other. This interaction is likely to include families, friendship and romantic and group relation. With the help of networking, it can help people make friends and to search to find some personal relationship and families can stay in touch more easily. Nowadays, huge number of people connects to networking sites and it also increases the number of relationship. The websites combine many internet features into one: personal profile, blogs, places for photos and videos, the latest news about music groups, user groups, and more. People use social networking sites to developing business contacts and maintaining contact with them. Websites like LinkedIn can be convenient place for professionals to meet and talk about business. Developing business contacts on the internet is most of the time easier and faster than offline. Aims Professional Essay Writers Get your grade or your money back using our Essay Writing Service! ESSAY WRITING SERVICE The aim of the study is explain the Importance of participating in internet groups and interactive with others and one-on-one from the individual self concept and social relationship. This research also...
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...The Effect of Social Networking Sites on Students' Academic Performance in Girne American University, North Cyprus By NAPOLEON, EGEDEGBE Abstract: Social network is a platform for people share their ideals, to meet new friends and to reconnect with old friends. Social networking sites offer people new and varied ways to communicate via the internet, whether through their PC or their mobile phone. Examples include MySpace, Facebook, Skype etec. They allow people to easily and simply create their own online page or profile and to construct and display an online network of contacts, often called ‘friends’. Users of these sites can communicate via their profile both with their ‘friends’ and with people outside their list of contacts. With SNS it is easy to communicate with your classmate, discuss class assignment and even submit project to your lecturer, watch videos, make comment on your friend page etc. This study will focus on the effect of SNS on student academic performance, using GAU as a case study. What are student using SNS for, does it affect their studies, or help them to learn easily. This project will talk about the history of SNS, development and the users of SNS especially by student and lecturers in communicating with colleague and student as well. A 15 question personally administered questionnaire was designed and sent to about 50 students from different country and department in GAU. Keywords: Social Networking, E-learning, Communication, Academic Performance...
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