Introduction:
Now a days, the traditional conventional news media is being challenged by the social media. People actually felt more when they are using traditional media compared to the social media. In these days social media is getting more popularity with it’s vast amount of users while the traditional media like newspaper circulation has been going down as people demand. Though the internet will not totally been replaced over the conventional media but day by day users of the internet getting high. This report will going to implement of the usual effect of social media on the society.
Sources of news:
Basically News media is been defined in where people could get news in easy way. They could be stated like news reports on Radios or Television, print media like newspaper or various kind of magazines, or even it could be a word which is coming from a authentic person who is witnessed it for example grapevine or else the news is given by any social and networking media such as Facebook and youtube etc.
Figure : Authentic source from where people get their news
Conventional Media:
The conventional media stands for to the traditional media means of vast communication which is been existing from a very long time. These are some procedures of broadcasting news in a very steadfast way and there are more collective ways which is having crowed accessed news. It actually begun with a very primordial system and coming down till the numerous weekly, monthly, daily or even yearly publication through the news offices as the structure of newspaper or magazines. Includes in this term, the Kings is been given street declaration and also street plays. The term is known as a news media like magazines and newspapers. These might be part of the government advantages and would be under the policy which is protected by the government or they could be sovereign. There are some rules and regulation for the independent publication though it,s been autonomous and must have to follow which is given by the government or council for such as these media. (Christian, 2014)
Latest conventional media:
Though the methods of traditional news Medias are effective but these methods are rapidly being fewer preferred. After arriving the internet and cause of it’s acceptance most of the conventional media have been started to update their version over the internet. This structure of media is recognized as online media(the traditional media in the latest form). Here even if the media or their new form on the internet is being monitored or controlled by the specific authentic authority. In these days the users who is select the electronics approach is constantly increasing over the time. (Aikat,2004)
Social Media:
Social media is been defined by a collection of web-based or internet based sites or social platforms. Actually these type of stages keep in touch with each another socially and casually. Besides that by using these kind of platform people could share their important update or personal events and real time occurrence. The most admirable platforms are Facebook, Twitter, What’s app, YouTube and many more. It would have various type of activities i.e a status or a blog post which is been posted by a journalist or user by using an application on online structure like Facebook or LinkedIn.
Here are various kind of social media scheme and user-generated program:
- User produced content news Request for direct way & pictures,videos of numerous publication and transcript eye observer on vital news stories.
- Comments of stories At the last part of particular stories here comments of publication
- communication boards With or exclusive of threads of self standing message
- Blogs Expensing and publishing certified writer blogs-commenting
- Reader Blogs It would allow to issue blogs in which have observable rooms with comments
- User created data To enter it has minimal obstacle for participation
- Non-news client created comfortable news Has been requested straight way and for in general issues it published pictures, videos and some text reviews.
- Question by users In news association is been crowd sourced question for public shape online through telecast websites
- Network activities of social media On above the site actually social network opt for friend suggestions or rooms for members
- Off line site commitment Intervening and engaging in social networks such as Facebook, Twitter or YouTube.
Social media platform is been used widely for the latest news or breaking news and because of this people are getting more interesting to the conventional media news for more specific and details news articles and stories. Now a days it’s very easy to get connect through social media with each other and possibly could get the latest news rapidly which is called breaking news. i.e people who are check in and were already and waiting for expected flights from Brussels there were the first man who posted about the blast news in airport which was been viral later on very quickly, on the other hand, people could take news for their loved ones and ensuring safety as well.
Impact of social media news:
Whenever we are talking about social media and those people who actually use these social media as news source, the most useful or frequently platform is Facebook which is been followed by the the YouTube very nearly(Caumont,2014). Although these type of media is not being used to publish news but it’s been used by it’s user as a platform of sharing stories,videos,conversations,chatting or images. After any occurrence or event there are status or news has been updated by the users, for example- natural disaster such as earthquake or collapse of bridge, and this is meant to be for precaution of further disaster and to know about the total experience which have faced by the sufferer. Thus lot’s of these kind of stories are been self-witnessed and been recorded by the users themselves after it has been posted. They are actually able to follow any news event whenever people refer to news which on social websites if it creates envisions them on another side. The news flash of social media site actually giving them a base idea or information and they could just scan from first to last the main article.(Caumont,2014).
Social media is constantly been upgraded and put on latest thing. News of social media could get freely on the internet whereas it’s necessary to be purchased or subscribed by the specific amount of money. Newspapers agencies or news channels are doing competition for having attraction on them which contains freebie, coupons, surveys, opinion polls with various gifts for participants, cost diminutions and so on. To cover up these activities expenses need to have sponsors and advertisers are been poached.
Social Media as a corridor to get news: Facebook escort the best
Effects of Social Media:
Social media has a wide range of different affects with both positive as well as negative side. We are going to explore social media effects on our society in numerous way:
a) Society and culture: Social media has been provide a common platform in where people can contact with each other whereas it’s pretty tough for having connection without these media. Even people could connect after having a vast geographical distance in between them. The culture and conventional ideals of different communities and countries which were just a story to some are now becoming more conceptually clearer. Art in all possible forms across the world can be appreciated.
b) Economical factors: Effect of social media on daily standard of living and businesses of people couldn’t be more apparent than that in e-commerce and advertising. Most public choose to by something online instead of going all the way to market/superstore and spending time for travelling which would have been full with disgusting traffic and tolerate a long queues of check-out. This is because now a days most of the brands has already been transferred from traditional procedure to modern methods on online for advertising. This way customer would make themselves more clear about the specific product like being capable to read the review of the product, could have put their valuable comments and opinion of people who were already been used the product instead of being depend on the shopkeeper’s viewpoint to the product. In the recent years the number of e-commerce business has been grown up in phenomenal way.(Thomas,2014)
c) Issues on Technology: For having exist social media completely relies on the technology. If there is any reason to break up technology than entire social media will going to be collapsed. Some of the hackers activities always been dangling to the users who use social network. It has been increased widely for having threat of virus attacks and break down the protectivity. These type of failure technology could lead to loss or being theft of significant data as well as personal and financial data.
d) Ethical issues: whatever has been discussed about social media it could be divided into two categories; one we can say it “actual” another one is “perceived”. Whereas some new medias are being broadcast live for example: being present on the place in where accident or occurrence happened but still is been biased to some extent only because of the person telecast it the way like it will give more importance to his view than general one. That’s the reason sometime the news where it spread over the social media is being manipulated in some extent.
e) Environmental factors: As the social media in all about online source that actually doesn’t need require printing and top of that the consumption of paper is also less. Less papers means less using of trees from where we get papers; but nowadays most of the newspapers and magazines publishers have already been started recycling procedure which is really good to environment. On the other hand, social media is being used by technology like mobile phones, computers, I-pad which is not actually friendly with the environment. These type of smart phone or tablet or i-pad consuming a vast amount of electricity which could have been use anywhere else easily. This is of greatest significance in developing nations who witness everyday power cuts and cannot produce electricity as much as is been required
Positive and Negative effects of social media vs traditional media:
- Updating news is more fast and real time than conventional media
- It’s been allowed on social media for having face to face communication via online queries and live chats as well whereas traditional media couldn’t provide such these type of facilities.
- It has been making the conventional media a close ended system by lacking of communication flow in between the end users and the news casters as compared to the social networks.
- In social media produced a one-to-one replies which is feeling of personalization as compere to the vast effect or simplification reaction of the conventional methods.
- It has been giving lots of opportunity on traditional media such as to write down, for news broadcast, for the editors, printers and many more to work in these sector of numerous level whereas social media could handled by itself. It might be or might not provide a fixed source of employment.
- The news which we have got from traditional methods is made by professional and polished way while on the social media news may be or may not to be so professional or polished , it could be user oriented and personal as well. The language of news which is been used in social media is more informal compared to the traditional media in where news language is been used in proper and formal way.
- The bottom line for social media is publishing of personal interpretations and views while the bottom line of the rational methods is the reach or the maximum number of end users.
- The judgment making in conventional media is mostly based on economic feasibility which is not the case for social media.
- Social Media is generally on real time news but with chat groups like WhatsApp some ol
- news are re-circulated while the print media does not do old news unless there is something more that has turned up regarding the same(Hausman, 2012).
Impact of social Media:
It could be express in various dimensional way of:
- Security: Social media totally depends of information technology for it’s survival. There is always have demand security to safe the users from the hackers. While someone buy something from the superstore shop need to provide card detail which is financial security risk, whereas for booking air tickets need to give your passport details which is an identity risk. While it’s about to give tax we need to provide social security number which is an identity and financial risk. These could be a reason to lost, theft or important information as well as personal data might be financial data or even may be at risk for having cyber crimes
- Privacy: a lot of users are anxious about discussing whatever thing and all in feature above social media because of the lack of privacy as well the monitoring of the cyber cell over social media discussions. People are more will to talk about definite political or sensitive topics in person with their acquaintances as there is little scope for government monitoring and also lesser possibility of criminal other common people. The sort of people who just want to ruin others by creating mountains out of molehills on the social media is to be taken seriously as they influence the other person to such an extent that the person under public scrutiny avoids being affiliated to the social sites for ever.
- Abuse: In certain situations it’s really difficult to find the social media news are coming from the way it is been arrived. For example In Arabic countries which is being called freedom fighters could take hold of the social media and promulgate only that news which is useful to them or which presents them and their viewpoint in good way. Besides that let us imagine about the second world war if that time social media would exist at Hitler’s disposal; then the awareness of the holocaust for those sitting remote distance in America or Asia would have completely skewed because only those things could be posted which he believed in. Therefore, it’s very easy to use the social media news by abusively if it’s not double checked by the users.
- Control: In general, it’s pretty presumable thing that the ruling party has a key hand in the news which is been telecast via traditional media in the form of Papers, magazines or television broadcast. On the other hand opposition party always been try to keep update through the social media in where it can be posted for free and publish to it’s supporters. After 2008 general elections in Malaysia it has been seen like that.(Ali Salman,2011)
The role of computers in the society and human computer interaction
The WWW(world wide web) is being made the world very close. In these days most of the individual people have some work or entertainment which is possible only by using computers also known as internet. be it conducting an global business and collaborating with overseas consumers via emails and webinars or for teaching children at home and preparing models.
Future development of technology and its intended effects on News:
There is a huge conversation about being used the social media as a entertainment platform and not exactly real hard core news. But since from it’s memorial time entertainment is getting more popular and it cannot be avoid. As a saying like people has all time been selling more copies than Time.(Thompson,2014). The era of Facebook, what’s app, viber or Twitter might be or might not be the latest but rather are the most upcoming ones which could end up extracting by high emotional reactions(it could be positive or negative) from the users.
Conclusion:
The social media has earned a phenomenal credibility over the past few years and is being expected to do so toward the future. However, some basic efforts is always been admired from the traditional media to keep going with the changing future times.
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