Database: Gale Onefile
Search 1: Social Media and Politics
Results: 209
Article: News Wont Find Me? Exploring Inequalities in Social Media News Use With Tracking Data.
Citation: Merten, L., Metoui, N., Makhortykh, M., Trilling, D., & Moeller, J. (2022). News Won’t Find Me? Exploring Inequalities in Social Media News Use With Tracking Data. International journal of communication [Online], 16, 1127+. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A699363128/PPCM?u=klnb_fhsuniv&sid=bookmark-PPCM&xid=6cf61e7a
This article discusses how people view the news on social media and the relation to following up what you see on social media. Could be useful seeing targeted news and the spread of misinformation leading.
Database: Nexis Uni
Search 2: Social media and political bias
Results: 8,928
Article: Political bias on social media emerges from users, not platform
Citation: (September 28, 2021 Tuesday). Political bias on social media emerges from users, not platform. Indian Technology news. https://advance-lexis-com.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:63PW-V8F1-DYDW-72S9-00000-00&context=1516831.
This article discusses how social media platform “Twitter” doesn’t silence political ideology. They deliver content based on connections and friends you have on there. This could be useful as it shows that the perceived bias might be our own fault.
Database: Nexis Uni
Search 3: bias and media
Results: 10,000 plus
Article: Liberal Media Bias Benefits Conservatives
Citation: JONAH GOLDBERG. (March 24, 2022 Thursday). LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS BENEFITS CONSERVATIVES. Baraboo News-Republic (Wisconsin). https://advance-lexis-com.ezproxy.fhsu.edu/api/document?collection=news&id=urn:contentItem:652P-GC71-JBCN-433G-00000-00&context=1516831.
This article gives a different take on bias and how it can benefit an opposing political ideology. Politicians may use this for their advantage.
Media bias is certainly no stranger to society. We’ve had partisan publications for as long as we’ve had publications. With that said, I certainly fear for a generation that is exclusively fostered by Twitter timelines. After all, the upkeep of newspaper outlets prevented too much polarization for purely economic reasons back in the day; if there’s not a market for revolution, revolutionary newspapers wouldn’t be printed. Radical tweets, on the other hand, cost 15 seconds of somebody’s time. This lack of cost or accountability is sure to carve out more polarization in the future. It already has from my experience, but I can only trust that people will outgrow the radical phase of their life with the dynamism of culture. Only time will tell if culture evolves into chaos once social media has established a more permanent fixture in our lives.