Twitter Analysis

Technology has shaped the large social movement. #BlackLivesMatter has been a useful and positive tool in 2015 and in 2016. In the Social Media Helps Black Lives Matter Fight the Power it talks about how

In the article “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted” by Malcolm Gladwell, he argues that the use of social media to start a revolution doesn’t help the cause to be as big or impactful than it could be. He explains the connection between social media with “weak-ties” versus “strong-ties.” In relation with these “ties,” throughout the article Gladwell goes back and forth from discussing the successful approaches of the Civil Rights Movement and their strategies for their cause without the use of social media, to how ineffective other various organizations in the past and present turned to social media to try their cause.

Nikita Carney’s “All Lives Matter, but so Does Race: Black Lives Matter and the Evolving Role of Social Media” assesses the role of social media as a public sphere, capable of influencing public discourse and the evolution of social media as a platform for discussing racial injustice. Carney uses twitter as her subject and analyzes the opposing discourse surrounding hashtags “#BlackLivesMatter” and “#AllLivesMatter” occurring after the non-indictments of white police officers in the killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. These hashtags represent opposing ideology about police brutality and the persecution of black bodies. Carney begins by establishing Twitter as a place for marginalized youth of color to engage in meaningful discourse about their experiences of racial inequality. Carney notes that “different groups viewing the same media coverage interpret issues of race and police violence in drastically different ways”, proving the existence of confirmation bias on social media. Millennials have

Twitter is the world’s number one go-to social media platform and, even though it is just words on a screen, it has the power to change lives for better or for worse. This social media platform is a powerful tool when someone knows how to use it correctly, but powerful tools can just as easily be misused. Mona Eltahawy’s primary theme in her essay “Twitterholics Anonymous” is that Twitter has both positive and negative effects on anyone who uses or follows the social media platform. “Twitter connects me to everything I care about and Twitter is ruining my life.” Just as this platform can connect people across the world, Eltahawy clearly demonstrates the toll it can take on one’s body and mind. The author of “Twitterholics Anonymous” brings up a unique conversation about Twitter’s effects on the world’s population that could inadvertently revolutionize how the world views and uses social media.

In this modern age, the majority of society has adapted to social media and the newest technology to fit around our lives. Technology provides tools that are imperative to the making and the use of other tools. It is a tool in itself. Technology is changing rapidly; so rapidly, in fact, there can be cultural gaps between generations. The construction of social media has enabled access to innovative phenomenon, broken barriers, changed our perspectives on ideas, and has even opened doors to new opportunities.

In past century, optimists have predicted the post racial utopian after new technology brought in virtual lives online, however, in “ Inequality: Can Social Media Resolve Social Divisions?” Social media scholar Danah Boyd argues that social media has not erase the social or racial divisions that are deeply rooted in our physical schools and communities, on contrary, it extends offline social divisions including racism and bigotry virtually online. Boyd develops her idea by in-depth interviewing numerous teenagers with different racial and social backgrounds and analyzing various sources regarding social networks and their effect on teens lives. She shows concern and frustration towards the fact that race-based dynamics of

“‘Tweet. Tweedle-lee-Dee’ (118 Character Left),” by Olivia Fletcher writes from the definition pattern of development. Fletcher’s thesis was, “Since those days, the tweet has morphed into a word whose meaning your great grandfather could have never imagined when he was listening to Day’s hit on Billboard’s Hot 100.” The author organizes her content into different segments; first she explains the history of the new definition of a tweet and she also compares Twitter and Facebook. Her next two paragraphs summarize the negative effects of tweeting, and these paragraphs also include a precis of a “Twitter war” between John Mayer and Perez Hilton. The last two paragraphs in the body discuss the positive effects of tweeting in schools. In the final

The social media websites prove the phrase, “birds of a feather flock together”, where teens link with friends of the same race. Boyd argues that “the mere existence of new technology neither creates nor magically solves cultural problems” (307). This division inevitably show in every social topic such as the 2009 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Awards where a white teenage girl posted a racist remark on Twitter from lack of knowledge of what is going on and countless other websites like Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, etc., where there are raging racism and hate speech. On the other hand, these also triggered outrage among anti-racists online where they shamed those who contributed to them, where “it incites a new type of hate, which continues to reinforce structural divides” (309). Boyd also interviewed a young black student named Keke where the girl said “skin shouldn’t separate nobody.

It is difficult to find someone among the Internet users who do not have the profile in multiple social networks. The article by Gene Demby “On Social Media, As in Life, White People Are Way Less Likely To Talk About Race” draw the public attention to the issue of race factor in social media. Demby is an African-American and, the lead blogger for NPR's Code Switch team. The relevance of the studied subjects is regarded to the Internet functions as a powerful and comprehensive informational field, which presents a part of the informational sphere. Almost two-thirds of the world population today is active members of the social and global network society, which has impacts on racial issue.

In the article, “Watch What You Tweet”, by the National Coalition Against Censorship, it informs the mischief of what students are capable of when using social media to offend an individual, which can lead to school officials suspending or expelling them, and in end, violating their First Amendment rights.

Observe, analyze, and discuss how social media and social networks are constructed and how they affect the discourse

In less than two decades, social media has revolutionized modern communication and information sharing. What began as a simple form of social networking has turned into innumerable platforms for people around the globe to share ideas, create and share businesses, promote brands, read news from various sources, as well as share and find vast amounts of information, among many other uses. Thus, with a few clicks of a button, people are now able to interact with someone on the other side of the world. The capabilities created through social media’s many uses have forever changed global politics, business, and interpersonal communication.

In spite of their differences, both African and African-American culture have been able to connect in certain ways in recent years, as well as other cultures. Technology, specifically social media has allowed my generation to connect with one another even with our cultural differences. There is a chemistry that exists within my generation that my parent’s generation never could have imagined was possible. The International Association of Business Communicators says “At its core, social media are about sharing information across boundaries. We can now find out what we want from whomever we want. Social media is breaking down hierarchical, regional, age and cultural boundaries” (IABC). Things have changed socially, through digital means, and it’s a big part of what makes me and my generation unique. Today, people in the United States can interact and communicate with people from anywhere around the world. I listened to some weird electronic music from France one night and it is amazing that I can do that. The internet has

Twitter has become one of the major catalysts in changing the way we communicate in the 21st Century. Since it’s conception of popularity in 2008-09, Twitter has become a place where people express themselves for many reasons, sometimes simultaneously. Whether they’re promoting something, promoting someone, promoting themselves, or talking about their personal lives, people in the workforce and others, like students, have come to know Twitter as a place of expression, but the definition of expression varies through its users.

In a bid to accept technological advancements, the term social networking has become inevitable and has to be embraced. Social networks have greatly accelerated their place towards transforming lives as they have brought out an easy way of communication. Whether at in our homes or mobile phones, they have brought in varied changes on how communication takes place. Twitter is online social networking web service and a micro-blogging service that makes it possible for its users to send and read messages that are text based that contain a limited number of characters of approximately 140 (Peterson, 2012). These messages are known as tweets and are usually displayed on ones profile. This is a way of building up a social network and gets connected to the right people. It is one of the leading social networking sites on the web where the users can subscribe to other users tweets and this is known as following and those who subscribe are known as followers. It is a miniature blog for people who want a blog but do not want a blog. It is often described as a cross between blogging and instant messaging.