Social Media As The Post-Truth Platform

IS SOCIAL MEDIA TO BLAME FOR OUR POST-TRUTH WORLD?

If you don’t post it, it’s not real or it didn’t happen. Posting content is almost a form of having proof of existence. The more you post, the more people know about you. The question…

How Social Media is Shaping Presidential Elections

What Role Will Social Media Play in the 2019 Elections?

One of the most important developments in election campaigns over the last couple of years has been the advent of social media. It has primarily changed the ways in which candidates and parties have conducted their campaigns. Social…

Too Lit to Politic: Social Media and its Role in Politics

In 2019, the world of social media could completely change as a whole, with new technologies being introduced and new ways that people will use these platforms, who knows what the effect will have on different things like…

Filter Bubbles: Should they be Bursted? Absolutely.

Does Social Media Favour Populism and Demagoguery?

In a word, yes. But I don’t want to talk about Trump. I want to talk about a different kind of populism. Left wing people have populism too. Bernie Sanders is very far from what I consider a demagogue, but I’m sure to some he is. I went and…

Social Media and Filter Bubbles

Following last week’s class, filter bubbles have been very prominent in my mind. Each time that I search through my social media channels I am becoming more and more aware of what sits at the “top” of my feeds. When I first started using social media the top of my newsfeed…

The Tyranny of Now: The Enemy of the Day

Five back to back exams later, my roommate and I were as ready as we could be to “turn-up”. Regardless of temperatures nearing minus 21 degrees, we found ourselves dressed in bare shoulder tops, chokers and six inch heels, ready to take on the nightlife of…

Girl Drama, Social Media & a Post-Truth Society

Throughout 7th and 8th grade, MSN wasn’t just a hobby, it was my lifestyle. Most days after school, I would immediately pull up the chair to the computer in my living room and log into MSN to start chatting with my friends, because apparently I…

The Tyranny of Now is Well and Alive

“Ashley started a live video. Watch it before it ends!” This is Instagram’s most recent development contributing to the notion of the tyranny of now. This idea of live videos is even worse than the 24-hour Instagram and Snapchat stories. It is worse in the sense…

Information Overload — Using Proper Judgment in the “Tyranny of Now”

Living in the digital age it’s hard to imagine having to wait for news to be delivered in the daily mail. Nowadays information spreads at the speed of light with the simple click of a button. That being said…

Do you want to escape “the tyranny of now”?

In exploring the “tyranny of now” I realized how conditioned we are on social media to give into the feeling of immediacy and into the highlighting of current events. If the “tyranny of now” is an issue we are only encouraging it through the use of…

Should Social Media Companies Burst Filter Bubbles?

With the help of advancing technology and the desire for personalization in the age of mass media, the phenomenon of filter bubbles came along. The idea behind this is to tailor information we are exposed to online with the use of different…

Canada’s Run for the Digital Office: The Role of Social Media in the 2019 Elections

I think it goes without saying that since the dawn of social media, social media has continued to root itself in society, shifting and changing exactly how society functions and what…

He Said, She Said: Social Media Edition

I love writing blogs, but this semester when given the option to collaborate with others on a different medium, I jumped at the opportunity. That is how “He Said, She Said” the quirky, social media themed podcast came to be. I, along with three of my favourite…

Blog #1: IS SOCIAL MEDIA TO BLAME FOR OUR POST-TRUTH WORLD?

The post-truth world is a world built on fabrication and disguise. Social media now allows us to post whatever we want and however so. Where the internet once served as a platform for the ‘truth’ now, anyone can share their…

Is social media to blame for out post-truth world?- Should We Shoot The Messenger?

In the social media era, everybody publishes whatever they want. Fake news websites are widely common, publishing lies and fabricated news. Politicians in the post-truth era appeal to…

Twitter: Did it mislead the ’16 Election?

Prior to delving into key issues here, it’s important to note that this blog is brought to you by RTA 902, the wonderful Hamza Khan’s “Social Media” course for Ryerson University. All views discussed are mine. And before we talk about Twitter and its…

Filter Bubbles Are Here To Stay

I often find myself procrastinating my homework and getting lost in the endless posts shared on my social media feeds. Videos of dog fails and funny, relatable memes can keep me entertained for hours. Most news articles that show up on my feed, based on my interests, focus…

Should Social Media Companies Burst Filter Bubbles?

Filter bubbles are the invisible hands which are manipulating our online experience, often without us even knowing or noticing. Even though I learned and was familiar with the concept of filter bubbles a few years ago when personalized…

social media = post truth

Social media platforms have become a reliable source of information and news for many people. I think social media has a lot to do with our post truth. Social Media provides different opportunities for people to engage with current information rather than the traditional print and…

Is Social Media to Blame for our Post-Truth World?

Over the past decade social media has rapidly integrated itself into our everyday lives. It has allowed people to connect all over the world and gain access to more information than one could ever need. But this technology comes at a price…

Should Social Media Burst Filter Bubbles?

Yes.

Why?

I don’t think I’ve ever had a greater shock in my life than when Donald Trump was elected as president of the United States. Filter bubbles — especially where the 2016 presidential election is…

Post-truth: as seen through the U.S. Elections

Post-truth: we’ve seen a lot of it in politics recently with the U.S…

To filter or not to filter?

Filtering makes sense — for social media companies, for advertisers, for users. While the thought of our every like, comment and share being tracked may scare us (maybe briefly?), we can’t deny how our user experience has improved, even if it were subconscious. It’s what keeps us…

Is Social Media making me Believe Lies?

We live in a post-truth world. That’s the truth. But is that the real truth?

Alright…hold up here Pinocchio.

What does this “post-truth” even mean? Essentially, by definition a “post-truth” society relies on…

The Social Media Battle for President of the United States

In 2015, Kanye took to the VMA stage to announce his desire to run for president of the United States in 2020. In 2016, social media outlets started rumours that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was planning on running for…

Hate to burst your bubble, but…

Were you sheltered as a child? Worried the big, scary internet will try to present you with ideologies and opinions far different from your own? Fear no longer! Introducing the latest craze in the online world, the Filter Bubble.

To Burst the Bubble or not? That is the Question…

Come one… Come all… to read this mess of what I call a blog post.

So, the question that I plan on tackling today is “Should Social Media companies burst filter bubbles?”

We are blaming the wrong body.

Dear society,

What has happened to us?

Please take the veil off your eyes.

Wake up!

In my perspective, we have entered an era of blind individuals that prefer to stay blind…

Drumpf, activism, and fear.

The conversation in pretty much all of my classes — and in my life to be honest, is all revolving around one thing: Donald J. Trump.

I find myself wanting to scream from the rooftops about the importance of LGBT+ rights and women’s reproductive health…

Extracting Filter Bubbles

To resolve the filter bubble problem, it requires efforts from both social media users — us — and the social media companies. Individuals are responsible for how they interact and use social media and are the key figure in resolving this issue. However, no matter how conscious we…

Social Media & Post-Truth

I believe nothing speaks more to the state of society than the idea that everything else is to blame for our circumstances… except for us, that is. This discourse completely removes the human element from something that is at its foundation human: society. We built this world from…

Is social media to blame for out post-truth world?

Here’s the thing. I missed class last week and I didn’t really know where to begin. I know it seems irrelevant and to some degree it is. But it’s mainly the irony of it. I was reading over the questions given to us this week and saw this…

Should social media companies burst filter bubbles?

Last week in class we talked about how many of us were shocked by Donald Trump’s win. A big reason for this was because of our filter bubbles. The filter bubble created tunnel vision and only showed us news that an algorithm deemed would be…

Smarter Phones, Dumber People

The most recent election taught and will continue to teach us many things about society, whether it teaches us how to think critically of the media or how to perfect a comb over. One thing that has specifically been brought to our attention, are the filter bubbles we live and…

Is social media to blame for out post-truth world?- Should We Shoot The Messenger?

In the social media era, everybody publishes whatever they want. Fake news websites are widely common, publishing lies and fabricated news. Politicians in the post-truth era appeal to…

On The Fence With Filter Bubbles

Ah, good ol’ filter bubbles. I’m really not sure how I feel about filter bubbles, the more I think about the use of filter bubbles from both my own perspective, as a user, and trying to understand the use of filter bubbles from social media companies’ perspective, the…

Should Social Media decide?

This world has revolutionized to the point that it is almost hard to remember that YouTube rarely used commercialization to run their company, now it seems that they are dependent on it. To be realistic, the marketing and commercializing industry has somewhat taken over the…

IS SOCIAL MEDIA TO BLAME FOR OUR POST-TRUTH WORLD?

Post Truth Politics! Just think about it. We no longer live in a world where facts was the sole weapon for finding out the truth. We no longer live in a world where collecting facts was the sole strategy that led us to come to a final conclusion on what to believe about…

Who killed the world?

Post-truth; defined by the Oxford Dictionary as ‘relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief’. The best way that I can find to explain the concept of post-truth comes from a SNL…