The Pros And Cons Of Social Media And Traditional Media

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Media is force on delivering news to the general public or a target public. With the rise of technology development, traditional media profession such as newspapers, magazines, radio and television is falling. Growing with the popularity of platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Google, Weibo etc. Although traditional media has fallen, science social media has merely taken a chunk of the online media scene. They are still irreplaceable, because traditional media is more credibility. Social media and traditional media will coexist in the future. Social media is people can share their encounter and interesting things by the computer and smartphone. In recent years, social media are become popular. According to the Nielsen (2010), people …show more content…

So what will happen in the future? In our opinion, social media and traditional media will coexist. On the one hand, according to the Dutta-Bergman (2014), social media and traditional media will be complementarity, depending on the fact that argument that media types compete with each other for resources. For example, in Facebook, there are some traditional media ID, such as BBC news. Even Facebook is a social media platform, but the context has still gets through traditional media. The credibility is much higher than the ordinary ID. People who get news from traditional media also can get truth. On the other hand, traditional media can develop itself. In the present society, online newspaper and application are more and more popular. Many traditional media has its own official website, people can get the e-edition newspaper for free and it gets news as easy as social media do. According to iiMedia Research (2015), in China, news application will be the first choice for people to get news. BBC news has its application, it will bring people more convenience. What’s more, people can share their own opinions on online newspaper and give some comments under the news. It's the strength of social media. Traditional media can have the advantage of social media, but social media, because of the anonymous ID, hardly improves the credibility. It doesn't mean social media will not attack people, it can make news spread quickly and shape public

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