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Social Media & Extremism: A Proposal

Given the incredible changes to the world over the last two years, it is timely to reassess the relationship between political extremism and social media. COVID 19 has left people locked in their homes and looking for ways to fill the hours. Social media has become a place to find a semblance of community when … Continue reading Social Media & Extremism: A Proposal

The One With the Proposal

SocialMediaTravel In this research I used qualitative study and non-experimental to reach my desired results.  Future research would include the same tourists coming back a year or two later, taking the same test.  The test would have the same components of age, gender, and amount of people to be successful within the three-month timeframe.  Their … Continue reading The One With the Proposal

Final Blog Post: Social Media & Free Speech

Final Hypothesis: Social media needs to be a platform where free speech reigns. Research Approach: Through researching the the topic of social media and free speech, a method will be found to keep social media a platform for free speech. The factors that are creating censorship in social media will be uncovered. Solutions to these … Continue reading Final Blog Post: Social Media & Free Speech

Does Social Media Help Tourists?

Hypothesis I want to examine if tourists use social media as their travel guide for their next travel destination.  I hypothesize that social media plays an important value in not only our travel destination but site seeing as well over a three month period. Flow Chart In my experiment, there will be 12 tourists.  I … Continue reading Does Social Media Help Tourists?

Social Anxiety and the Internet

Your initial research idea and your current research idea. If there are changes, tell us how they are different and why. What led you to change your focus? I am staying with my initial idea. To determine if the commonly assumed negative aspects of internet activity contributing to social isolation might prove to be beneficial … Continue reading Social Anxiety and the Internet

Social Media and Free Speech Continued Search

Communication & Mass Media Complete partisanship AND censorship Resulted in 600 results 2. media and censorship resulted in 1,476 results This included headlines about foreign countries and the media control and censorship there. Applied Science & Technology Abstracts 3. social media AND partisanship 2 search results Annual Reviews 4. social media AND censorship resulted in … Continue reading Social Media and Free Speech Continued Search

Advanced Search Social Media News and Censorship

Source #1: Misinformation Propogation in the Age of Twitter Found on Applied Science and Technology Abstracts Database Keywords: Twitter AND News Results: 102 Subject Terms: Quantitative chemical analysis; Quantitative research; Microblogs; Ebola virus disease; Hemorrhagic fever Citation of source: Jin, F., Wang, W., Zhao, L., Dougherty, E., Cao, Y., Lu, C.-T., & Ramakrishnan, N. (2014). … Continue reading Advanced Search Social Media News and Censorship

Social Media News Consumption Search

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/25/technology/facebook-twitter-google-capitol-riots-hearing.html?searchResultPosition=7 My first database search was NYTimes. Initially, I searched “social media news” and found 43,956 results. I searched “news behavior” and got 2,474 results. Finally, I searched “antitrust” and got 569 results. From “social media news” search: Albeck-ripka, L. (2021, March 16). Facebook agrees to pay for MURDOCH’S australia news content. Retrieved April 06, … Continue reading Social Media News Consumption Search

Balancing Free Speech & Misinformation & Advertisers?

My initial research idea was the use of social media to spread news information. I think that over this first half of the course, there have been developments in social media news. I think this topic still is interesting, timely, and has aspects that need explored. In this research area, I would like to find … Continue reading Balancing Free Speech & Misinformation & Advertisers?

Imran, Castillo, Diaz, Vieweg. Processing Social Media Messages in Mass Emergency: A Survey

Provide the citation and attach a pdf of the article (10 pts) Pro Tip: You can use ZotZero, but check the output against the APA Style online guidelines.  IMRAN, M., CASTILLO, C., DIAZ, F., & VIEWEG, S. (2015). Processing Social Media Messages in Mass Emergency: A Survey. ACM Computing Surveys, 47(4), 67:1-67:38. https://doi-org.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/10.1145/2771588   What is the abstract of the … Continue reading Imran, Castillo, Diaz, Vieweg. Processing Social Media Messages in Mass Emergency: A Survey