questions: What are the advantages and disadvantages of social media? How might knowing these advantages and disadvantages alter how a person might use social media? One advantage of social media is the ability to stay connected to friends and family‚ especially those you may not see often. You can share photos and even host events which you can invite your friends to. Social media is also a good way to meet new friends and share interests with others. Most social media sites offer groups that you
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An essay on the topic: Advantage and disadvantages of means of media Means of media are the instruments or devices to disseminate information to common people. Media can be used for promotions of products and services‚ For instance‚ news paper‚ TVs‚ advertisements‚ radio announcements can be used as a means of communication. These are the form of entertainment. These are the means in which globalization takes place‚ a means of informing people about events from
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Advantages of New Media There are many advantages of new media‚ we can check twitter and facebook and other new media from our phones. We no longer need to wait for the morning newspaper because of the internet‚ also we have television that broadcasts news 24 hours a day. We can call people using skype for free using the Internet. More ways of communicating now because of the smartphones. You can create media by creating your own blog. We can see that new media is available everywhere and it has
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CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY The media‚ most especially television‚ mobile phone‚ internet‚ computer have gradually become a part of our daily lives‚ and sources of information‚ education and entertainment have been described as the primary functions of the media. Student at higher secondary level learnt more of media. There is three functions to the media: i. Surveillance of the Environment (the news function). ii. Correlation of the different parts of the
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Role of Technology in Electronic and Digital Media Comm/225 Role of Technology in Electronic and Digital Media The world we live in is every changing around us‚ it is a wonder we can even keep up with the technical advances that are happening. Everywhere we look there are cell phones‚ computers‚ tablets‚ smart phones‚ hand-held video games players‚ and much more. In the 21st century many people do not know how it was a hundred or more years ago. Over the years media has grown in a tremendous
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Impacts of Electronic Media on our Society [pic] Introduction: In the last 50 years‚ media influence has grown exponentially with time. First there was the telegraph‚ then the radio‚ the newspaper‚ magazines‚ television and now the internet. The media boom has also brought a revolutionary change in the morals and ethics of society. But a moral change in a society can sometimes prove itself to be an insincere change fraught with social evils.The media has a huge impact on society and also
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Tracking Social Media The Social Media Tracking Centre and the 2011 Nigerian Elections Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Foundation About the Authors Dr. Judith Burdin Asuni is the Executive Director of Academic Associates PeaceWorks‚ a Nigerian NGO working in the fields of conflict management‚ peace and development and peace education. Dr. Asuni has researched and written extensively on conflicts in Nigeria‚ particularly in the Niger Delta. AA PeaceWorks has established a social media team to engage Nigerian
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2013 ROLE OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN COMMUNICATION The role of the Internet in business communication is varied and has come to be of great importance. It can be used to increase effective communication both internally and externally. Use of the Internet can make it easier to connect with others quickly and more often‚ in addition to exchanging a wide array of media types. It can be used to communicate purchase information to vendors and by customers to ask questions. The factors that
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Protecting Children From Media Student’s name: Professor’s name: Course title: Date: Protecting Children From Media According to (Beal‚ 2008)‚ media can be defined as the various and different forms and technologies used for communication and channels of passing information or entertainment in the society. An example of media is the television‚ newspaper‚ radio‚ combined sounds‚ videos social sites as well as gaming sites among many others. In the modern world‚ the media have been and is and will
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Social media is a way of connecting people or a medium for sharing ones ideas. It’s technologies takes different forms like internet‚ blogs‚ forums‚ social networks etc. The qualities social media possess are reach‚ accessibility‚ immediacy‚ permanence. Today’s younger generation depend on social media completely as they prefer to be connected with the world through social networks like facebook‚ twitter etc. If we look up the statistics 93% of youth are active users of internet and 73%
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