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With the rising popularity of social media, various platforms are being used to promote people's products and ideas. Now lets say you like someones post and would like to spread it to your audience, but want to properly credit the original poster; there are multiple ways to go about this, the simplest being pressing "share" on the original post, this will share the post to your followers all while redirecting them to the original poster. If you want to quote someone on social media you could do so similarly to how you would do so in any written work, provide the text in quotes and instead of putting their last name in parenthesis you can simply tag them @ using their name or post the URL to their page. One can evaluate their sources on social media based on if the person they are getting their information from is a verified expert in that field. Everyone wants to act like an expert in the comment section, but platforms such as Facebook and Twitter take extra steps to veri...
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The widespread of access to technology has made it alot easier to connect people and bring them together for a cause. In the past, campaigns’ had to rely on word of mouth references or physical advertisements such as billboards to promote their cause. In the modern era, through the use of social media, a much larger audience can be reached. But, even with the popularity of social media, certain people might be excluded from participating. The non profit organization I am researching is 2-1-1 WNY, which is an organization that aids individuals in need with health and human services. With their social media campaigns they have the ability to spread the word to a large audience, but the people who need their services the most, for example those who are homeless, may not have a cell phone or access to any social media platforms. To resolve this organizations need to find a balance between social media and physical advertising.
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Citizen journalism can be defined as  the collection, dissemination, and analysis of news and information by the general public, especially by means of the Internet. In the modern area, many people in our society have a smart phone that records videos and has access  to the internet. When something is going down some individuals resort to recording the situation and sharing it on social media. Once the video is on social media, other individuals get involved by commenting their thoughts and reactions. A large issue in today's society is the concept of sharing and receiving fake news, this is  propaganda that consists of deliberate disinformation or hoaxes spread via traditional print and broadcast news media or online social media. Its not always difficult to figure out whats true and whats fake news, but the interesting thing is the news and a video on Facebook can show the same information and society might have a hard time figuring out wh...