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  2. Good Deeds Global - Wikipedia

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    The Founder of Good Deeds Global Corey Shoblom Davis along with Co-Founder Ken Melancon have been seen in a variety of cities throughout the United States handing out various amounts of free money to people in an effort to promote and encourage the pay it forward philosophy, in addition to supporting the random act of kindness concept. [6] [7]

  3. 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 ...

  4. 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:

  5. Propaganda through media - Wikipedia

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    With the widespread use of social media platforms, they have become powerful tools for propaganda. Propaganda is promoted on social media by dozens of governments. [11] The Economist reported that in 2020, 81 countries waged "organized disinformation campaigns", up from 27 in 2017. [12]

  6. Mobile social network - Wikipedia

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    A steady increase of mobile application usage over the past few years has contributed to the rise of mobile social networks, as well as to the diversity of usage of mobile social networks. [4] As the use of mobile social networks has increased, the location-based services within the mobile social network has also been increasing.

  7. Social media use by businesses - Wikipedia

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    Social media use by businesses includes a range of applications. Although social media accessed via desktop computers offer a variety of opportunities for companies in a wide range of business sectors, mobile social media, which users can access when they are "on the go" via tablet computers or smartphones, benefit companies because of the location- and time-sensitive awareness of their users.

  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.