Social Media Influence on Society and Politics

TMC6200: Designing Social Networking Sites

Mayuree Srikulwong, PhD Ramkamhaeng University

What accommodate this influence?

What

It affects E V E R Y T H I N G.

• Everyone's Daily life, Mental Health and Wellbeing (http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/irespect/social-media-influences-on-children-and-mental-health?

qid=817e55a5-79c9-457c-9b8a-134e51283591&v=qf1&b=&from_search=4 )

• Consumption and Consumer Behavior (http://

www.slideshare.net/mobile/lazerow/how-social-media-influences-consumer-behavior?qid=e9ef857e-6b22-448e-

b15e-f064844dea5a&v=qf1&b=&from_search=1 )

• Politics (http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/hongliangjie1/a-61-millionperson-experiment-in-social-influence-

and-political?qid=b19835ef-cc36-4487-b6df-83aa1117e91c&v=qf1&b=&from_search=4 http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/ChrisAalberts/do-social-media-change-the-influence-of-citizens?qid=b19835ef-cc36-4487-b6df-83aa1117e91c&v=qf1&b=&from_search=3

• Tourism and on and on and on..

Analysis of SNSs Effect [Fuchs, 2011]

1. Political Economic Dimension

• Ownership, Censorship, Exclusion, Content Production

2. Political Communication

• Universal Access, Independence, Quality of Political Discussion

Role of Social Media in the 2011 Egyptian Protests

Face-to-face 93% Facebook 42% Twitter 13% Blog 12% [Castells, 2012]

http://ratiojuris.blogspot.com/2011/02/egyptian-revolution-of-2011.html

“Social media did not cause the uprisings, it strengthened them”

[Curran 2012] http://www.egyptsafari.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/18-feb.jpg

What Else?

The Occupy Movement (http://www.occupyresearch.net/orgs/)

Wikileaks (https://www.wikileaks.org/)

Anonymous (http://www.occupyresearch.net/orgs/)

Power vs Counter-Power

References

• Fuchs, C. 2014. Social Media: A Critical Introduction. SAGE Publications Ltd., London.

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