Just a thought: Social Media's Negative Effect on Journalism
Literally, social media are media for social communication through the use of the internet. Social media is made possible through the use of web based and mobile technologies to make communication into interactive dialogue. Though social media has a very significant role to internet marketers to social media, for journalists and journalism, it has its positive and negative effect. The greatest positive effect of social media is its ability to transfer information quickly among a large group of people. However, its foremost negative effect is that you can pass misinformation quickly too. News organizations always want to report live news and social media has also the same offer. However, the bad side here is that after years of responsible reporting, many reporters have been dismissed from a job due to poorly constructed 140 – character tweet. Every now and then, reporters emphasize the significance of keeping a journalistic uprightness in front of the real time social media assault and...