Social media stomps traditional media
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Uploaded by RTAmerica on Mar 24, 2011
The web is increasingly becoming the top source for news and information with about 41 percent of Americans citing the Internet as the main location they seek out national and international news from -- a 17 percent rise since December 2010. Journalism professor Jeff Cohen from Ithaca College explained that new and social media fills a void often ignored in traditional media -- it enables more voices and transparency and allows for greater government change. "The debate among quality bloggers is better than the debate amongst the best TV mainstream shows in America, Cohen argued. He noted that social media has been far more damaging to world dictators than old media ever was.
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Unlocking the gate. A nice way to summerize the role of Social Media in some non-democratic countries.
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I love Indie media such as RT America and sometimes Al-Jazeera.
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Hey #UN#,
This was a pretty cool vid.
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@Bonez0r,She's hot.
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@iwontupload You are so right! and she's in such a lot of RT videos lately. I want her babies!
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@ahwatdahec Are you nuts? I want to marry her. Beautiful and intelligent, the perfect woman =)
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So that's something to keep in mind. Social media may become as government controlled as tv and newspapers are now. And it could happen without anyone noticing because those virtual sock puppets are designed to act completely human and have seemingly real personal backgrounds. So stay alert and think for yourself :)
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This is a wonderful development, but governments are not stupid, they see what's going on. The US army has hired a software company to develop something for them called 'Online Persona Management Service'. With the software, a single soldier would be able to make ten accounts on for example facebook and control/simulate those ten virtual 'people'. This way, multiple soldiers could create an army of sock puppets on social media, potentially influencing public opinion on all kinds of issues.
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@ahwatdahec Hah! Why? I missed it. What did she do that would give you that impression?
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LONG LIVE ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
Charmer4856 11 months ago 41
The mainstream media is dead.
WJValente 11 months ago 41