Talk:Social media as a news source/Archive 1

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 30 August 2021 and 10 December 2021. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Julyattitude. Peer reviewers: Civil Protection Team 9.

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Untitled
I added a few headings as it was difficult to navigate the page without any. If you do have any suggestions for more headings/different names, that is greatly appreciated! Sneeweed (talk) 20:23, 11 February 2020 (UTC)

Social media as communication seems off-topic
I think the "social media as communication" section should be removed. It is not about news. Is there a better Wikipedia article where it could go? Moofinberry (talk) 06:47, 24 October 2020 (UTC)Moofinberry 22:57, 19 October 2020 (UTC)

Removing the "social media as communication" section. I am pasting it below in case this information can be used for a different article Moofinberry (talk) 06:47, 24 October 2020 (UTC)Moofinberry

Social media as communication
Social media fosters communication. Pew Research Center claims that "more than half of internet users (52%) use two or more of the social media sites measured (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest) to communicate with their family or friends". For children, using social media sites can help promote creativity, interaction, and learning. It can also help them with homework and classwork. Moreover, social media enable them to stay connected with their peers, and help them to interact with each other. Some can get involved in developing fundraising campaigns and political events. However, it can impact social skills due to the absence of face-to-face contact. Social media can affect mental health of teens. Teens who use Facebook frequently and especially who are susceptible may become more narcissistic, antisocial, and aggressive. Teens become strongly influenced by advertising, and it influences buying habits. Since the creation of Facebook in 2004, it has become a distraction and a way to waste time for many users. A headteacher in the United Kingdom commented in 2015, that social media caused more stress to teenage children than examinations, with constant interaction and monitoring by peers ending the past practice where what pupils did in the evening or at weekends was separate from the arguments and peer pressure at school.

Moreover, social media allows all types of data to be interchanged at a global scale. Consequently, this has built onto the globalization of media content, creation, and distribution of data. Due to people’s activities in a network society, cultural values and traditions can be shared, introverts are given an opportunity to interrelate with other people online, as well as virtual communities are formed (“a self-defined electronic network of interactive communication organized around a shared interest or purpose”) (Castells, 2010, pp.386). Thus, it allows the creation of bonds between relative strangers, disregarding any type of framing, prejudice or any other social barrier (Castells, 2010, pp.388-389).

Request to reconsider removing this section
I saw that someone had put this section back. However, it is not about news. It's about general communication. I believe it should instead be in the page about social media, not this article specifically about news. I also saw that you had removed the section on collective memory. This content was directly from the social media article under the "social media as news" subheading, and I was attempting to move it here so that it could instead be summarized in the main article because that article is too long given Wikipedia's guidelines. Let me know how you want to proceed. Moofinberry (talk) 07:30, 24 October 2020 (UTC)Moofinberry
 * , Yup you're right. It might indeed be more suited for inclusion on Social Media or somewhere else Asartea   Trick  undefined  Treat  08:44, 31 October 2020 (UTC)

Request to reconsider adding "Effects on individual collective memory" as a sub-section
I had added in the "Effects on individual collective memory" from the main "Social media" page under the sub-heading "As a news source." However, this addition was removed. I believe it could be added to this current page and so we could instead reduce that subsection on social media page, which is quite long. Moofinberry (talk) 07:30, 24 October 2020 (UTC)Moofinberry

Building on relationship with traditional news sources
I added one sentence about social media's effects on individual journalists: "Social media also incentivizes individual professional journalists to share their reporting and interact with audiences on social platforms to boost engagement and advance their careers." I think I can build upon this by adding information about social media's effects on traditional news outlets as a whole from this source that I added last week.

I'm interested in this claim on the page: "Alternatively, these results could also imply that posts of a more pessimistic nature that are also written with an air of certainty are more likely to be shared or otherwise permeate groups on Twitter." I think it would be useful to cite another source to delve into the same ideas that the nanotechnology study did. I found an economic study about how social media algorithms might incentivize negative news coverage.

I think this conversation could also be bolstered with the discussion of the FaceBook whistleblower's claims about FaceBook's choices to use algorithms that push negative, emotional news content. Although, I am hesitant to do so since this is a developing situation. Julyattitude (talk) 19:36, 13 October 2021 (UTC)