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America Rivera
(I will write the proper header for my final paper including the page number and the title)
Topic/Question:
Social media and politics: How does social media affect politics and its outcomes?
Assumed/Researched answer to the question:
Social media has both positive and negative effects when it comes down to politics because it can advocate but also create issues between candidates when the wrong thing is said. Social media can attract more voters and influence such as informing many and express the people’s opinions. On the other hand, Social media can also create arguments and disagreements between candidates and people causing problems. This is why people should be careful with what they share.
Vague answer(Has social media changed politics through time?):
Yes, because now more people are being informed and as well as celebrities influencing their supporters.
Evidence: “paying special attention to those that mentioned a political candidate. We compared the number of retweets when celebrities took political stances to the number of retweets for their usual lifestyle tweets. With that, we could analyze whether political content was punished or rewarded with more or less attention. For each celebrity, we calculated the extent to which the retweets of their political comments deviated from the average number of retweets that celebrities usually receive.”(Think celebrities get punished for being political? In fact, they get retweeted”(I will analyze in my essay).
Positive effects:
- Advocates for campaigns and candidate ideas
- Influences voters to both are more involved and informed.
- It helps candidates attract more people.
- Since celebrities can speak about political issues or ideas, it helped them and they’re popular as well as influence. They influence because if they have fans then their fans will want to follow them or believe in what they do.
Example: I will use, Satterfield, H. (2016, October 5). How Social Media Affects Politics and, Nagler, J., Tucker, J., Vaccari, C., Zilinsky, J. (2019, October 28). Think celebrities get punished for being political? In fact, they get retweeted. The Washington Post. Retrieved from.
Negative effects:
- Can cause many arguments through social media
- Can cause protest when a president shares his political ideas or things he will do when it doesn’t benefit a certain community or group of the public.
Example: For this, I will use the example of Donald Trump tweeting about building the wall in the border of Mexico and America. This is a perfect example because it began huge protest and drama over the media.
1st example (twitter):
- Used to share ideas and today our president is very active on it
- Retweeting political ideas can spread the word on something and inform others
(use some of the sources because the majority speaks about twitter)
2d example (facebook):
- Reposting spreads the word
- In the last election, Trump’s campaign spent so much money advertising his run over this platform.
- Used by most of the population especially in the U.S
Example of our current president using social media to advocate or express his political ideas:
- He used twitter to target communities
- He makes statements that may start riots
- He acts upon his post
Conclusion (overall):
I NEED HELP WRITING A CONCLUSION. Why? because I don’t want to be repetitive and I don’t know what can be the last piece of information I can use to really inform the audience/reader.
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Sources:
Adrian, R., Christian, C., Julia, M., Julian, S., Marko, K. (2017, October- December). Brute force effects of mass media presence and social media activity on the electoral outcome. Zurich Institute of Public Affairs Research Zurich, Switzerland. Retrieved from. http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=b6ad6ca6-24ed-47cc-a711-98212117e4f2%40sessionmgr103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=127161575&db=aci
Curry, K. (2016, September 30). More and more people get their news via social media. Is that good or bad?. The Washington Post. Retrieved from.
Daniel, K., Shannon, M. (2018, April 3). Technology Firms Shape Political Communication: The Work of Microsoft, Facebook, Twitter, and Google With Campaigns During the 2016 U.S. Presidential Cycle. Taylor and France. Retrieved from. http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=d49c293b-46a5-4872-b2ce-dd6ec9683d46%40pdc-v-sessmgr05&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=128502484&db=ufh
Hyun, K., & Kim, J. (2015). Differential and interactive influences on political participation by different types of news activities and political conversation through social media. Computers in Human Behavior, 45, 328-334. Retrieved from. https://www-sciencedirect-com.ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/science/article/pii/S0747563214007481#tblfn2
Leticia, B. (2016, January 2). Political News in the News Feed: Learning Politics from Social Media. Laurence Elbaum Associates. Retrieved from. http://web.b.ebscohost.com.ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=665be198-41f2-4e5a-a382-9bea76478f66%40pdc-v-sessmgr03&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#AN=112042616&db=sih
Nagler, J., Tucker, J., Vaccari, C., Zilinsky, J. (2019, October 28). Think celebrities get punished for being political? In fact, they get retweeted. The Washington Post. Retrieved from. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/10/28/think-celebrities-get-punished-being-political-fact-they-get-retweeted/
Satterfield, H. (2016, October 5). How Social Media Affects Politics. Sysomos. Retrieved from.
https://sysomos.com/2016/10/05/social-media-affects-politics/
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