Free Speech through Anonymous
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.
Throughout history, we have proven time after time, that society has a natural inclination towards image obsessiveness and in more recent years seems to have become a greater factor in our everyday lives. We are constantly altering our persona as well as our physical features including what products we purchase. What is s...
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... the concern of social limitations aren’t entirely present. Twitter provokes ignoring social standards and previous obsession with image in order to allow for greater ideological development, without going becoming too extraneous.
Because 4chan and other anonymous sources can be deemed as sites that follow a more severe and extremist pattern that results in more primitive thought because of the lack of restraints. We can safely assume that since Facebook elaborated on the creation of social standards and an ascension of insecurity of personal image, follows the Freudian model and can be seen as the SUPEREGO because of restriction of sexual desires and focus on the entire betterment of image without showing free thinking or opposition to society. Thus leaving twitter, properly under the principle of EGO, to have decisions between social image and free thought.
...s about body-images and beauty. It’s no secret that images in magazines are routinely manipulated to present a certain idea to sell their products. Healthy legs are often reduced to toothpicks and wrinkles are often wiped away to present youth. Growing up in an era of media, every magazine you can find in stores seems to have flawless photos of various celebrities and models posing with the latest handbag or holding the newest mascara. These ads and magazine spreads with flawless pictures may help sell products in beauty and fashion industries, but are detrimental to those who constantly see these altered images. Edited pictures not only give others a false reality of beauty, but it also pushes what a perfect body is expected to look like, causing women to reach for something unrealistic and unattainable – we can’t compare ourselves to something that doesn’t exist.
The popular media; being television, movies and magazines, have increasingly held up a thinner and thinner body image as the ideal for women and masculine bodies for men. This is a problem caused by social media’s portrayal of ‘the ideal appear’, however this is only one aspect of the body image issue; others include the advertising company’s photo-shopping every picture to construct people desire to purchase their merchandise. The majority of these companies is promoting their clothes, accessories, fitness and cosmetics. This has affected people all around the world for the reason that human beings deem that it is crucial to be such as every photo-shopped figure that is advertised in the majority of every fitness, beauty or clothing product. The last point that will be discussed in this essay will be
“Nothing is perfect.” Though social media brings us uncountable convenience, there is a trade-off with the convenience. Due to the advanced technology we have, social media has become part of our life, which it means that social media could determine our sociability. In Peggy Orenstein’s “I Tweet, Therefore I Am,” though she praises Tweeter for its convenience, at the same time, she also worries that “(Tweeter) makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self.” Since we don’t care about who we talk to, we might act abnormally due to our feelings, and
Over the past couple of decades, we are all aware that social media has had a great impact on us and the way we think. Social media has revolutionized the way people communicate and socialize on a daily basis. It has been spreading propaganda on how we should live our lives, how to act, what’s right and wrong, what’s good for us and many more. It is double edge sword that hinders people’s abilities to think for their self, but has open such a vast world to share one another 's opinions in a matter of seconds on the internet or television.
...ts, social media network have the influential power to be negative; it has distorted society’s perception of freedom of speech by awarding users the privilege of stating their views and opinions onto the internet regardless of how biased and dishonorable they could be. This lack of understanding can lead to the deformation of the character of others while taking harmless acts out of context and depriving its users the true meaning of privacy. The disadvantages and dangers of social media networks outweigh the benefits as this generation of users and providers negate the morality presented away from the internet.
This essay emphasises on analysing how twitter constructing a new public sphere and how we can use twitter become a platform for news production and production. this article is divided into four parts:
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As we walk the empty streets of our neighborhoods and wonder where is ever one? Then the fact dawns on one me that we live in a connected world. A world that ties all most ever human on this plant to one another through the internet. Allowing us to communicate to one another or does it? We are bombarded by a multitude of programs that allows us to communicate. Program like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. On the surface these program sounds great. What’s the harm in a free program that allows us to talk to each other without accruing a huge phone bill, right? As we explore the darker sides of these programs. We will discover that Facebook, twitter, and Instagram serves as a means of bulling, hate groups, and a source of mental stress on us all.
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For centuries, humans have been joined together, fueled by their sense of community. Humans cannot feel alone, so they formed tight-knit groups. These communities began to grow into nations and countries as more people were born, until they became so large that the citizens no longer knew what was occurring in their home. The idea of ‘news’ was generated to keep these citizens informed; the earliest was heralding. As time passed the communities’ networks began to evolve to include the world and as the networks changed the people did as well. People began to use the Internet more for connection and information which lead to the creation of Social Media. Social Media led to people changing their ideas of privacy. At the turn of the twenty-first century people began looking for these ideas in Social Media resulting in the creation of many social networking sites; the most popular sites are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat. These changes also involved problems within these sites.
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...
Every day we meet a lot of people have seen their behavior, listen to what they say, think about them, try to understand them. We feel that we not only see what color eyes and hair of a person, tall or not, thin or full, but also sad to him or fun, smart or stupid it, solid or not and so on. Over the past decade, social media has seen growth to the point where it is reflects in our daily lives and even the lives of those who choose not to use it. Anywhere we go online, there are always buttons to click so that you can share something on Facebook or pin it to your Pinterest account.
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The influence of rapidly growing social media, television, and the internet has taken the world by storm in recent years. Its fascinating development over the years is nothing short of remarkable when you take into account that 20 years ago, only 16 million people in the world were "online", compared to the 2 billion that roam on the internet now. Modern communications technology has now become so familiar and utterly banal, yet there is still this tingling sensation when one receives a text from a love interest on Facebook or WhatsApp. Human identity, the idea that defines each and every one of us, is on the verge of being radically defined by social media. This essay will provide a balanced outlook on the positive and negative effects that social media have had on the behaviour and thinking on humans. The topic is a very controversial one, but the purpose of this is to help readers formulate a view on whether the arguments in this essay benefit society in general, or whether they harm the well-being of the human brain and detach us from reality.
In this paper I propose that there are changing definitions of the public and private sphere because of the sharing of personal information on social media. The public sphere was changing since well before the development of the Internet, and more saliently social media (Habermas, 1989). Habermas published his book in 1962 that noted that more of what in life had traditionally been private was becoming public. When examining this issue as part of social media, however, the history of the Internet and its development is important as it relates to how current behavior developed. Sharing through social media continues the tradition of using technology as a way to create virtual communities, which have existed since the early days of the Internet (Jones, 1998). The history of how technology developed shades how social media sharing should be conceptualized and understood. I am intentionally avoiding the term oversharing in this paper with the exception of mentioning it here, because I believe that people’s willingness to share information about themselves is personal