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  2. Social media - Wikipedia

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    The PLATO system was launched in 1960 at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation.It offered early forms of social media features with innovations such as Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowdsourced online newspaper, and blog ...

  3. Social media as a news source - Wikipedia

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    Almost half of Americans use social media as a news source, according to the Pew Research Center. [1] These are participatory platforms that allow user-generated content [2] [3] and sharing content within one's own virtual network. [4] [2] Using social media as a news source allows users to engage with news in a variety of ways including:

  4. Social media marketing - Wikipedia

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    Social media marketing is the use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service. [1] Although the terms e-marketing and digital marketing are still dominant in academia, social media marketing is becoming more popular for both practitioners and researchers.

  5. Opinion - Australia’s social media ban is a flawed approach ...

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    Social media platforms will face significant difficulties in ensuring that children under 16 cannot access their services without compromising user privacy or introducing security vulnerabilities.

  6. Internet activism - Wikipedia

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    A digital-activism campaign is "an organized public effort, making collective claims on a target authority, in which civic initiators or supporters use digital media." [3] Research has started to address specifically how activist/advocacy groups in the U.S. [4] and in Canada [5] use social media to achieve digital-activism objectives.

  7. Twitter usage - Wikipedia

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    Research on using Twitter in education has been conducted by Dr. Reynol Junco and his colleagues. Using a controlled experimental design with random assignment, they found that classroom use of Twitter in specific ways such as continuing course discussions outside of class led to significant increases in student engagement and grades for all of their courses. [15]

  8. Social media use in politics - Wikipedia

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    Despite that, people are expressing less trust in their government and others due to media use- therefore, social media directly affects trust in media use. It is proven that while reading newspapers, there is an increase in social trust, on the contrary,y, watching the news on television weakens trust in others and news sources. [ 20 ]

  9. Uses and gratifications theory - Wikipedia

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    In media studies, mass communication, media psychology, communication theory, and sociology, media influence and media effects are topics relating to mass media and media culture's effects on individual or an audience's thoughts, attitudes, and behavior. Whether it is written, televised, or spoken, mass media reaches a large audience.