Manifestation Of Women In Social Media

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MANIFESTATION OF WOMEN IN SOCIAL MEDIA: AN INTRINSIC ANALYSIS OF CONTENTS SHARED BY WOMEN IN FACEBOOK Abstract: Social media had its beginnings in the form of sixdegrees.com and Ryze. Over the years it grew on to various forms in the form of Friendster, Orkut, Face book etc. Social media is now becoming the heart of things for common people to look up to for various avenues such as news updation, opinion sharing, learning new things and so on. Women hold important places at various levels in the society. They are seen on par with men in many fields and sectors at the workplace. This scenario was not what it used to be many years ago. However, there are still many issues that are needed to be addressed. One such issue is the manifestation of women. Manifestation of women is important because there was always a section of women who were unable to reveal and express themselves even in the age of IT and digital revolution. Social media has made the digital gap to shrink. More women are now expressing themselves in various forms in social media. This research study will focus on how Face book is serving as a platform for women to express themselves by analysing contents shared by women users by employing …show more content…

INTRODUCTION: 1.1 Social media Valkenburg, Peter and Shouten (2006) in their study spoke about the positive relationship between young people’s usage of social networking services and the effect on their self-esteem. Oliver et. al (2006:1) argued that social media brings about a sense of community belonging and increasing people’s resilience, giving them the ability to successfully adapt to change and stressful events. 1.2 Under representation of Women Julia T. Wood (2015) in her study speaks about the under representation of women in media outlets. She cites Basaw’s views of under representation of women that “A primary way in which media distort reality is in under representing

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