Social media is “media for social interaction, using highly accessible and scalable communication techniques. Social media is the use of web-based and mobile technologies to turn communication into interactive dialogue.” The notion of freedom of speech is “the right to express information, ideas, and opinions free of government restrictions based on content and subject only to reasonable limitations.” Social media rapidly travels virally, thus magnifying issues so that they are more exaggerated than they would be through conventional media. How do we ensure that this technology benefits society and does not create a scenario which is of detriment to us – how do we prevent “free speech gone mad”? Athlete’s use of social media highlights a number of issues in the use and impact of this technology, and what restrictions are likely to come into place as a result.
Developments in social media have an effect on how information is broadcast. In the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Canada information was permitted to be published on social media sites for the first time. The games in Vancouver have been dubbed the first “Twitter Olympics”. Today anyone can post updates on these events online, this medium has changed the way we share information and has revolutionised media.
Even in the most democratic countries, media has had censorship due to both television and the press having guidelines of acceptable journalism and broadcasting. There is editorial staff that determine whether something should be broadcast or published. Open forums on the internet like Facebook allow people from all corners of society to express their views without bowdlerization. Social media is incredibly spontaneous with opinions from a wide spectrum, who do not n...
... middle of paper ...
...ast Viewed: June 26, 2011
Robinson, Eric P. “International Grounding: Can Public Colleges Limit Atheletes’ Tweets?” Citizen Media Law Project URL http://www.citmedialaw.org/blog/2010/intentional-grounding-can-public-colleges-limit-athletes-tweets Last Edited: November 9, 2010 Last Viewed: June 26, 2011
Schroeder, Dan. “Should athletes have social media restrictions?” Strategic Social Media URL http://prosintraining.com/ssm/2011/05/should-athletes-have-social-media-restrictions/ Last Edited: May 8, 2011 Last Viewed: June 26, 2011
“Social Media at the Vancouver Olympic Games” Out-Smarts URLhttp://www.out-smarts.com/2010/02/15/social-media-at-the-vancouver-olympic-games/ Last Viewed: June 26, 2011
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
“What is an open forum?” wiseGeek URL http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-open-forum.htm Last Viewed: June 26, 2011
New technology has fuelled the expansion with the growth of phone apps, social media formats, smartphones able to capture video and upload instantly onto the web. The public is now recording, documenting, sharing and viewing events as they happen, often before professional journalist or reporters. Technology allows people to view major events in real time anywhere in the world, creating a ‘global village’ in which everyone is connected (McLuhan 1964; cited in Giddens 2013). However, the mass medias of television, radio and newspapers both in print and online, continue to be the mediums the public accesses the news and events on a local, national and international
In today’s society new forms of technology have enhanced and in some cases replaced traditional methods of promoting a product. The sports industry, in particular, can utilize these emerging technologies to reach their customers in new and improved ways. This new media merges traditional forms of media such as audio, video and written word with interactive digital technology (Parkhouse, 2012 p. 184). New media includes not only computers, laptops and smartphones, but also all software applications and platforms. Additionally, cross platform software such as Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are utilized at an increasing rate as due to the desires of today’s technological society. Many teams use blogging, which provides a venue to hear directly
In the last few years social media and technological tools have become a significant part of communication and their popularity has expended to the all areas of our life. The youngest generation of "always on," those who are always connected, post, like, comment, and provide information about every aspect of their life (Imaging the Internet, 2012). This phenomenon, has expanded also into professional lives, business, and health care environments (Randolph, 2012). Undoubtedly social networking like Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest or many different blogs are an indispensable part of our reality, however as the most popular modern communication tools are also not free from abuses and carry some ethical issues. A proper use of social
People, especially in democracies, need to be well informed of everything going on in their country in order to vote for ways to make it better. Social media gives citizens of democracies a better understanding of the events in their country and others because of social media’s unfiltered, raw
Social media is something that has quickly became a huge part of our global culture. It has taken over the sports world, with most athletes, and all sports organizations having their own official accounts across the wide variety of social media sites. As a result, the governing bodies of all the professional sports leagues in North America have had to make policies that define what behaviors are unacceptable for their athletes and teams to do on their social media accounts. Many of the policies developed by the NFL, MLB, NBA and NHL are understandable, as it is clearly in the best interest of the respective leagues. Banning social media use during games is an obvious one. However, some of the rules made by the leagues go too far. These policies
A unique feature that social media offers that newspapers aren’t able to is that breaking news can be shared throughout the digital globe with one click. Sports reporters and journalists tweet breaking news immediately and within ten minutes the tweet or post can reach thousands of people. Another benefit of social media for fans is that it is free of cost and no costly subscription is needed, which is a benefit that has boosted the popularity and
A new age has developed and society is altering to adapt to new forms of technological communication. Through the use of the vast Internet through the use of social networking, image boards, blog sites and news media, society is altering in a way never seen before. Over the past couple of decades, the use of the Internet has expanded and grown exponentially as new technology develops. Since the introduction of social networking as well as alternative news media sites, the way people interact and communicate has altered. New ideas and discussions have been created. With all of this freedom granted with easy access, society might take advantage of the ability to speak freely as an anonymous source. The personal obsession with imagery is lost because the users of the Internet are judging based on a screen name and nothing more. The ability to have an alternate persona allows users a freedom of speech and thought never granted before and can be erased and created with only a few clicks. We see that true opinion and reasoning among society varies on the anonymity of the commenter, where as one is more likely to be more holistic and honest if their imagery isn’t entirely threatened by the judgment of their peers, but because of many networking sites, individualism is lost; specifically, society’s lack of expression of true free thought and in reality because of social constraints.
The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we’re really disconnecting from each other. Communication is a crucial part of the human life when it comes to interacting and progressing our society. Ever since the beginning of as much as we can remember, we’ve communicated in many forms such as body language, sign language and written language. Nowadays, we’ve taken socializing to a whole new level. We’ve constructed a form of typed language with the given name, social networking. There are endless social media sites that make it obtainable to connect between various amounts of people. In consideration of the ability that people can interact through social media, most people own an account for engaging. Granting all this, social media has a lot of negative side effects that cause tendencies and anti-social behaviors in people. Many of social media users are obsessed and become deserted by using social media. The most influential social networks, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram are included. It is critical to know why people have to use social media wisely and need some restrictions when using it.
Social media is a revolution, which we are currently experiencing. It has changed the way people communicate and interact with one another, and opens up many more avenues to share news, information, and just general chit chat. Social media is relatively quiet young, but is here to stay for the foreseeable future. We are now at a point where online, we can share, read and react to lots of individual information being posted on microblogging websites, such as Twitter, Facebook, Google+, Tumblr and more. Twitter in particular has been widely embraced, and will centre most of the discussion.
“Social media has also created an exciting outlet for the people to see news and stay updated on current events in the world” ("Are Social Networking Sites”). The majority of the media broadcast the troubles and trials the United States have and to some extent people could get ideas from the bad broadcast and could do the same things. Maybe if the media could limit the broadcast of bombing, gun shootings, killing police officers, and much more than all of it would gradually disappear.
Social media can impact a life of an individual at many levels. On social media, each individual has the power to be influential and important. There is a freedom of expression on soci...
Social Media is defined by Merriam-Webster as “forms of electronic communication (as Web sites for social networking and microblogging) through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (as videos)” (Merriam-Webster), and for many Americans is a method of social interaction that is used often on a daily basis. It has been determined that one in five people use social media at least once a day and that 19% of Americans between the age of 15 and 54 are on sites like Facebook and Twitter(). It’s no longer common place to send handwritten letters or birthday cards, now writing on a wall, sending a tweet or snapping a picture is accepted. Although social media has provided todays society with instant forms of communication and ways to connect, it also created a new standard for living and has caused problems for many groups of citizens in all walks of life and has caused society to re-think its usage. There are two views about social media, either that. It is a positive addition to society and its benefits outweigh the risks, or that social media causes more harm than good and it’s usage should be limited.
In recent years, social media have played primary roles in society. It helped overturn a government, revamp the way advertising targets consumers, and address many social issues. Social media is a very broad term; a system of websites and applications used to communicate through the Internet. Social media consists of social bookmarking, news, photo and video sharing, and networking. Theses websites and applications have one major thing in common; users are able to interact with one anot...
In the age of developments and technology, the evaluation of media started to spread out in the whole world, the popularity of media is getting larger every day because people are in need to communicate with each other and to send and deliver information from far places. The types of media are internet, television, radio, newspaper and magazines and people are crazy about them they can’t spend a day without them. There are a lot of reasons and causes that help to spread media. In this essay, I will discuss some of the causes and effects of social media also, the different types of media and the most common one.
Now, just because the entire world can be involved in the media, does not necessarily make it any stronger. The contemporary era of participatory media does destroy the sense that any person, educated or not, can create input on certain issues. Along with information that could not be credible, social media has become very emotionally heavy in that people are openly discussing the high’s and lows’ of their lives online (Jalonen, 2014, p. 128). Social media is so easily accessible people are also known to be taking advantage of