Title: 15 Amazing ways social media is changing the world
Headings: 15 Amazing ways social media is changing the world
15 Amazing ways social media is changing the world
1. Social media is not making us more individualistic
2. Social media is an important catalyst to education
3. Selfies send different messages around the world
4. Equality online doesn’t mean equality offline
5. It’s the people who use social media who create it, not the developers of platforms
6. Public social media is conservative
7. We now “talk” through photos
8. Social media is not making the world more homogenous.
9. Social media best promotes personal commerce.
10. Social media has created a new genre of communication based on groups.
11. Social media is somewhere we live
12. Social media can have a profound impact on gender relations
13. Conversations and relationships are polymedia
14. Memes have become our moral police
15. Social media is a threat to privacy, but can also provide privacy
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Content: 12. Social media can have a profound impact on gender relations
One of the areas where social media has had a profound cultural impact is gender relations, especially in highly conservative societies where this has enabled young women and men to establish sustained and direct contact with each other. In some cases, a crucial element of this is the use of fake accounts. In a compelling case study, a young Turkish woman describes how she is able to access music, art, and literature that might not normally be available to her in a conservative society. She uses a nickname so cannot be recognized but laments that she may never be known for her music because of the need to use an alias. 13. Conversations and relationships are polymedia
Most people now use a range of platforms to organize their relationships or genres of posting. People are also now judged as to which media or platform they decide to use, making this a social and moral issue. The researchers call this “polymedia.” The study pointed to examples where conversations jump from platform to platform.