Explosion of various social networking sites and time spent by youths on such Platforms is increasing day by day. The influence of such social media on policy making is visible by meetings between head of states and ceo's of these companies.We have facilities for searching food,restaurants, hotels,groceries, and friends to life partner to new jobs etc etc
If there is any research done on such influences on society at large? Please share any such info or publications?
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This will not fully answer the question, but in this article we argue that online spaces have become essential aspects of how individuals and institutions communicate.
This is one of the areas being actively researched. My personal opinion: People are becoming more vocal on social media in expressing themselves and also becoming more of exhibitionists. On the other hand, nothing is more convenient and faster then communicating on a social network. As it is with any technology, you have both pros and cons. Depends on how it is used and individual perceptions. But one thing is for sure, with massive reach and easy access, its a force to reckon with and is influencing society in a really big manner, maybe even to the extent of changing thinking and behavioral patterns.
An Australian study (a little dated though) will give a basic idea about how things are shaping up.
http://www.psychology.org.au/publications/inpsych/2010/december/social/
Dear Mr Hallett,
Thanks a lot for the link.its quite interesting paper and covering wide spectrum of info i am Looking for.
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Hello Shashi Nath,
It's true any new technology results in the way users sees them. As far as social media is concerned I guess our locus of relations is increasing exponentially but the depth ,value and social or emotional investment in these and all relations are reducing continuously. Also the young minds are exposed to World wide web and numerous things whcih we might have learn over a period of time. I'm don't km now if regulations need to be there, if yes what kind of ? This so called freedom of expression has its own trade off...
There is a lot of research on that topic, especially in new media and Internet journals, such as:
- New Media & Society (http://nms.sagepub.com/)
- Information, Communication & Society (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rics20)
- Social Media + Society (http://sms.sagepub.com/)
- Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1083-6101)
- First Monday (http://firstmonday.org/index)
- Convergence (http://con.sagepub.com/)
- Journal of Broadcassting & Eletronic Media (http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/hbem20)
- Mobile Media & Communication (http://mmc.sagepub.com/)
- The Information Society (http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/utis20/current)
- TripleC (http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC)
It's very hard to generalize how social networking platforms affect socio-cultural aspects of society but a couple of literature reviews have been performed that might give an overview and some insights.
Article A Review of Facebook Research in the Social Sciences
Article A review of social networking service (SNS) research in comm...
Article Beyond just politics: A systematic literature review of onli...
Article Social media research: Theories, constructs, and conceptual frameworks
Dear Mr Christoph Lutz ,
Thanks a lot for the information and sharing the articles.
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