User:Sneeweed/Social media as a news source

Sources:


 * Sveningsson, M. (2015). “It’s Only a Pastime, Really”: Young People’s Experiences of Social Media as a Source of News about Public Affairs. Social Media Society, 1(2), Social Media Society, 09 September 2015, Vol.1(2).
 * Conducted an experiment to investigates "how young people, who are interested in civic and political issues, and who regularly access news from various sources, experience and understand, specifically, Facebook and Twitter as sources of news about public affairs"
 * Swedish youth
 * Showed a biased and fragmented side to society from social media
 * The experiment found a correlation between news consumption and feeling like a sufficient citizen in the person's country
 * People did not recognize social media news as "real news"
 * Pennycook, G., & Rand, D. (2019). Fighting misinformation on social media using crowdsourced judgments of news source quality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(7), 2521-2526.
 * Experiment
 * David, C., San Pascual, M., Torres, M., & Scala, A. (2019). Reliance on Facebook for news and its influence on political engagement. PLoS ONE, 14(3), E0212263.
 * Examines the use of social media as a news source and how people are exposed to political ideologies and institutions.

Additions:


 * Add subtitles to make it easier to read
 * Work on lead to make it more concise as well as have it lay out what the article is about, rather than just stats.
 * Through the use of social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,, users can communicate with their peers, strangers and with online content. Social media has evolved and has become important for society, especially youth. Through social media, youth have become more directly involved in protests, social campaigns and generally in the sharing of news across multiple platforms.
 * Add to "Social media as communication"
 * Link to how social media and communication add to greater consumption of news

Arab Spring example


 * Social media was a large influence
 * An influential example of social media making news more accessible and widely spread would be the Arab Spring. Protesters used social media platforms, to create plans for protests and to spread video and images captured from those protests.