8.1 North American Journalist Code of Ethics.7 Implications of Using Social Media as a News Source.5 Effects on individual and collective memory.4 Use as a news source across race, gender and political demographics.3 Used as a news source by young people.1 Relationship to traditional news sources.There are ways that social media positively affects the world of news and journalism but it is important to acknowledge that there are also ways in which social media has a negative affect on the news that people consume such as false news, biased news, and disturbing content. Using social media as a news source has become an increasingly more popular way for old and young adults alike to obtain information. Post their own photos, videos, or reports of news (i.e., engage in citizen or participatory journalism).Īs a participatory platform that allows for user-generated content and sharing content within one's own virtual network, using social media as a news source allows users to engage with news in a variety of ways, including: Almost half of Americans use social media as a news source, according to the Pew Research Center. Just as television turned a nation of people who listened to media content into watchers of media content in the 1950s to the 1980s, the emergence of social media has created a nation of media content creators. Social media as a news source is the use of online social media platforms rather than moreover traditional media platforms to obtain news.
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