1 Introduction
Online social media (OSM) are Internet sites for people to interact freely, sharing their thoughts and engaging in a conversation, using words, audio, pictures and videos. These services allow individuals, organizations and governments to create, exchange content and spreading information with large number of people without geographical constraints. It appear in many forms including blogs and microblogs, wikis, social networks, virtual words, forums and message boards, media-sharing sites and social bookmarking. There are numbers of well-known sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Wikipedia, Reddit, Flickr, Instagram and many more.
On March 11, 2011, the most powerful earthquake hit Tohoku region with magnitude 9.0, unleashing catastrophic situation in Japan, which killed more than 18,000 people [1]. Just after the earthquake, there were interruption on electricity, water supply and computer networking [2]. The use of email and call using mobile phone are unavailable due to interruption of telecommunication links and access control. However, OSM services using 3G mobile internet data were accessible. In disaster situation, OSM are helpful and growing in popularity as information sources and communication channel with family and friends to exchange about each other safety condition [3]. Twitter, Facebook and Mixi are top three listed forms of social media being used during and after the Great East Japan Earthquake 2011 [3][4]. A survey on social media used after the earthquake indicates that most users are more interested to use Twitter rather than Mixi and Facebook, with 63.9 percent of them agree Twitter help them to gather information about the disaster [4].
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Social Media is one of the biggest ways that all people can interact with one another globally. It is a fun place to connect with close or distant friends and family members.
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Introduction: With the development of internet and improvement of digital transmission technology, network communication is becoming a part of people's life. For the publishing individual this situation cause the ability of audience which process information is greatly strengthened. At the same time, the situation sparks audience’s demand to make the information more personalisation. Thus it can be seen that, expressing individual, spreading ideas, real time information, quickly and easily, these elements becoming the audience’s basic requirement of information distributing and communication platform. Twitter embraces new technology, use sharing and circulating as it’s basic communication pattern, it encourages individual to get involved in to the news which means everyone can be the first time event publisher. In some way, twitter fits the needs of the audience today, and promoting the construction of civil society. On the one hand, the twitter world is a complex system which is composed of the dialogue from different social strata; In the other hand, the contents and transmission mode of twitter are actually very fragmented which means that the news on twitter platform has some features, such as unsystematic, or sometimes news is piece together by human. However, the emergence and spread of twitter did offer a new platform for public sphere, and impact the public discourse of mass.
middle of paper ... ... Social media in this regard helps passing information both spatially and in a timely manner, thereby increasing efficiency and accuracy. Nevertheless, social media may create rumors and fallacies that may create panic and/or damage the reputation of an organization. In this context, a crisis management team must be able to establish strategies for dealing with rumors in case of an emergency.
Social media is a world-wide trend that enables people to stay connected through sites like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and many more. This trend effects people
Since 2006, Twitter has become a huge social media platform. Over a billion people use twitter on a daily basis. Everyone from celebrities to the average teenager has a twitter. Over the last decade, Twitter has been affecting the way we communicate with one another. Twitter causes people to receive information quicker, oversimplify conversations, and impacts the in person conversations that occur every day. Who would have guested that a hundred and forty characters would change we communicate?
Park, J., Cha, M., Kim, H. and Jeong, J. 2012. Managing Bad News in Social Media: A Case Study on Domino's Pizza Crisis.
Social media is the future communications, a countless array of internet based tools and platforms that increase and enhance the sharing information. (What is Social Media? .2014). It has become the integral part of life for all the communities or people nowadays. Social Networking Sites like Facebook, My Space, Twitter, Friendster and Blogger are the examples of social media that have influence many people’s life. (Geoirge, C. 2014). For an instance, users can get to meet their long lost friends and family members through the sites above. This can help them to foster a better relationship with their loved ones. Besides, social media had also given a great influence to the business world as most of the entrepreneurs had fulfilled their desire
ComEd appears to have thoroughly analyzed social media best practices before it embarked on its own social media program. However, it decided to place the responsibility for social media within its own customer operations rather than in its communications or marketing department. Was this is a good decision- why or why not?
“But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something” (Atwood, 1985). In this digital day and age, people have access to information and news at any time. People give their attention to a headline, an article, or a link just because they are posted on the internet. As a result, people have created a vicious cycle in which they search, read, believe, and share what they have read, without considering the reliability of the information and news. Technology has influenced communication and journalism; as a result, the media has adopted a business model based on clicks and advertising. The combination of people's need for information and the greed of news corporations has allowed for the proliferation of
... to update people that there was water found on mars. In January of 2009, people were alerted that a plane had landed on the Hudson River 15 minutes before any news outlet could break the story. On July 6th, president Obama became the first president to hold a town meeting online, and he received over 110,000 tweets. Fans of a celebrity or public figure can communicate, in a sense, personally with their idol. People have garnered full time careers due to twitter, and “social media manager” is now a job position. A hack on the Associated earlier this year about President Obama caused the stocks to fall “134 billion in value almost instantly” (“Twitter”).With an overriding presence in our digital world, people sometimes forget the power of twitter.
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Nowadays, social media is growing very rapidly throughout the whole world. Social media has changed the way that we communicate with others through using these common social networking sites like Face book, Twitter, and Instagram…For that, social media has positively and negatively impacted our life.
this new way of media makes the transfer of text, photos, audio, videos and information. Social media is the collective of online communication channels dedicated to community based input, interaction, content sharing and collaboration. Social media primarily internet or collaboration. Social media includes popular networking website like as facebook, , twitter, whatsup ,massager, MySpace, blogs, youtube , wikis etc. the world feels smaller now that people are able to use cellular phone and social media tools to stay up to date on the happening of their family, friend and the world in general. social media have created online communities where people can share as much or as little personal information as they desire with other members that effects lot of information can be easily shared, searched, promoted, disputed and
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