społeczeństwo: Social media

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Social media are new media technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks. Common features include: Online platforms enable users to create and share content and participate in social networking. User-generated content such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through online interactions. Service specific profiles that are designed and maintained by the social media organization. Social media helps the development of online social networks by connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups. The term social…

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Why Do News Sharers Choose Not to Share News? A Self-Presentation Model of Deliberate News Withholding on Social Media. What news spreads on social media equally depends on what news users do and do not share. However, prior research has predominantly focused on successful news sharing , overlooking the equally consequential behavior of deliberate news withholding. This study addresses that gap by proposing a self-presentation model of deliberate news withholding on social media, integrating three dominant approaches previously used to examine successful news sharing: (1) the informational approach focusing on the virality of news content, (2) the structural approach emphasizing social medi…

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The effect of media literacy as college students consume news and information on social media. This study explored the relevancy of media literacy as college students obtained their news and information from social media sites. The past several decades have experienced a transformation from single-sourced, trusted news in newspapers and television to a multi-sourced, unchecked, and growing social media presence. News shapes social and political attitudes and awareness, making the ability to understand, process, and analyze the information critical for forming an individual's worldview. Data collection methods for this exploratory, sequential, mixed-methods study included: a quantitative onl…

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Reluctant to Share: How Third Person Perceptions of Fake News Discourage News Readers From Sharing “Real News” on Social Media. Rampant fake news on social media has drawn significant attention. Yet, much remains unknown as to how such imbalanced evaluations of self versus others could shape social media users’ perceptions and their subsequent attitudes and behavioral intentions regarding social media news. An online survey ( N = 335) was conducted to examine the third person effect (TPE) in fake news on social media and suggested that users perceived a greater influence of fake news on others than on themselves. However, although users evaluated fake news as socially undesirable, they were…

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How Do Partisans Consume News on Social Media? A Comparison of Self-Reports With Digital Trace Measures Among Twitter Users. There are growing concerns that social media exacerbates the selective exposure of audience members to content that supports their political views. However, despite the hype, the existing literature does not fully address the extent to which social media users selectively consume like-minded news stories, in part due to different methodologies. In an attempt to move toward a common framework, this study examined the partisan selective exposure of a representative sample of Twitter users by combining survey data with digital trace data. Specifically, the study linked s…

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Social media use in politics refers to the use of online social media platforms in political processes and activities, including all activities that pertain to the governance of a country or area like political organization, global politics, political corruption, political parties, and political values. The media's primary duty is to present us with information and alert us when events occur. This information may affect what we think and the actions we take. The media can also place pressure on the government to act by signaling a need for intervention or showing that citizens want change. The Internet has created communication channels that play a key role in circulating news, and social m…

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Social media as a news source is defined as the use of online social media platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook rather than the use of traditional media platforms like the newspaper or live TV to obtain news. Television had just begun to turn a nation of people who once listened to media content into watchers of media content between the 1950s and the 1980s when the popularity of social media had also begun creating a nation of media content creators. Almost half of Americans use social media as a news source, according to the Pew Research Center. As social media's role in news consumption grows, questions have emerged about its impact on knowledge, the formation of echo chambe…

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Ad-based social media interventions increase belief accuracy and generate pro-social opinions among non-news readers.. Democratic challenges are often attributed to the spread of misleading, untrustworthy, or biased information, leading scholars to focus on minimizing exposure to such "bad" content online. Instead, we introduce a scalable intervention to put factual and verified public affairs information in users' social media feeds to make them better informed and more resilient to various online threats. We conducted 48 field quasi-experiments using Instagram ads targeting news non-users to enhance their belief accuracy, democratic attitudes, and behavioral intentions related to climate…

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X, formerly known as Twitter, is an American microblogging and social networking service owned by SpaceX's artificial intelligence subsidiary SpaceXAI. It is one of the world's largest social media platforms and one of the most-visited websites. Users can share short text messages, images, and videos in short posts (commonly and unofficially known as "tweets", in reference to the site's former terminology for the format) and like other users' content. The platform also includes direct messaging, video and audio calling, bookmarks, lists, communities, Grok chatbot integration, job search, and a social audio feature (X Spaces). Users can vote on context added by approved users using the Commu…

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Problematic social media use, or social media addiction as it is often referred to, is when an individual engages with social media platforms in a manner that is deemed unhealthy, maladaptive, and/or obsessive. Social media addiction is a commonly recognized social phenomenon in countries with internet access, particularly among younger generations who freely accessed the internet in their childhoods such as Millennials, Gen-Z and Gen-Alpha. However, due to the newness of social media platforms, not just as tools for online communication but as abstract forms of human expression and connection, it is generally unclear which behaviors should qualify as addictive. Therefore, it is not an offi…

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LifeSiteNews, or simply LifeSite, is a Canadian Catholic advocacy and news publication. Founded by Campaign Life Coalition, it focuses primarily on opposition to abortion and also publishes Catholic and socially conservative commentary. It has been described by several sources as far-right, and has been criticised by fact-checking and media organisations for publishing misleading information, conspiracy theories, and COVID-19 misinformation. In 2021, it was banned from some social media platforms for violating policies on COVID-19 misinformation.

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An influencer is someone who has the ability to alter the attitudes, behaviour, or decisions of others through authority, knowledge, position, or the nature of their relationship with the audience. Such ability is either inherent to their personality or is constructed by others for benefit. This benefit can be either social, personal, and or economical. The term 'influencer' is used in fields such as media, business, politics, religion, and communication, referring to people such as social media influencers, podcasters, public speakers, religious influencers, writers, and newsletter writers who have dedicated followings in various areas. One writer defines influencers as "a range of third p…