Why Do Government Use Social Media Platforms?

“Social media makes the community part of the actual crisis communication response. For example…Twitter was used to quickly share initial information and updates during the 2007 and 2008 California wildfires, 2008 Mumbai massacre, 2009 crash of US Airways Flight 1549, 2010 Haiti earthquake, and 2011 Tunisian uprising.” This information, again in Veil’s 2011 article, reinforces the idea of how social media communication is highly beneficial and furthers an individual’s ability to remain informed on current events.

While Tegu describes his surprise about the power of social media as his ideas on Tweets had such a rapid spread and aroused waves of comments and emotions, Sherry Turtle also introduces the strong power of technology that both changes the way people think of themselves and shapes our ways of being. According to her research, technology shifts us from connection to isolation, and in the future technology may become our only companies that will listen to our words and solve our loneliness. Simultaneously, Roger Kay narrates the increasing power of social media which can change our traditional behavioral patterns and modes of thought in“Multitasking: Good Or Bad?”. He indicates that we are likely to spread attention over different sources

This essay explores the different relationships between social media platforms and the government to provide insight into the different ways the government uses media masses to further their agendas and how its good business is used for political gain. This essay also discusses the different ideologies and fallacies individuals have of the media’s role in society. This essay wasn’t written to persuade one either way, but rather to bring the important relationship to light, so with better understanding people can make wiser decisions as voters, consumers or investors.

Social media has provided emergency managers a new tool in their arsenal to embrace in their efforts to communicate with the public during a crisis. Technology has allowed the public access to the world via these social media applications, while they go about their busy lives. Seemingly, the public expects the government to be available in time of need through these very same social media applications. A survey conducted by the American Red Cross states that 76% of Americans expect help in less than three hours after posting a request on social media (American Red Cross, 2012). Therefore, the government sees this new media as an advantage that they need to embrace and utilize to assist the public.

Many parents nowadays are unable to restrict their children’s use of social media since they do not monitor them from the beginning. Thus, this excessive use of electronic devices by children and young adults, has led to many problems on them at different levels.

She did this for several minutes. She could not move every fast due to her current condition, but she was making progress. After some time she suddenly halted her progression. There was some odd vibration under her. She moved forward and found an air duct opening. She careful maneuvered to the edge to look at what was going on below.

In 2016, Travis Mattila made an online threat to the Ely School District claiming he was going to take children hostage, bomb Ely Memorial High School, and assassinate president Obama. Instances like this is what makes it important to put monitoring on the internet for specific topics, and put action immediately to prevent people from getting hurt and put into danger. The government should monitor the internet for signs of terrorist activity. The government preferably should look onto social media for signs and threats of terrorism with hope of reducing it.

United States President Barack Obama has almost 5 million Instagram followers. Russian President Vladimir Putin has more than 1.5 million likes on his Facebook page. British Prime Minister David Cameron has a Twitter following of over 1 million. With public figures able to garner enormous audiences like these, I would argue that it is time to move past the question of “if” nations and the people that represent them should use social media. Instead, empirical studies should focus on “how” nations can best use social media to build relationships with foreign publics.

The response teams can use social media to prioritize rescue and aid efforts with the help of descriptions and data that can show what regions are most affected.

Today’s normality is altered by the updates, text messages, notifications, and other aspects the development of technology provides. Technology and social media can be utilized in a positive or negative aspect. One example of a positive way might include the communication increase from one continent to another. However, two major alterations technology and social media brought upon us is the concern with people’s attention span and ability to multitask. According to a study in 2016, “One-way analyses of variance (ANOVAs) were conducted to compare the attitudinal and cognitive responses in the single and two multitasking conditions. This analysis yielded significant results for all three dependent measures” (Kazakova 409). This study proved that multitasking is capable, but not fully achievable. On the other hand, others might agree with multitasking is attainable

CNA, a research facility, partnered with the National Emergency Management Association to provide research and information on the public’s expectations about emergency management’s use of social media. Before this research, the data about this connection was only done with case studies and unreliable accounts. CAN used a survey in this research to see how people felt about social media in connection with emergency management. The results found an positive approach. Many people in emergency management agencies, on local and national levels are very familiar with social media. It is usually the larger websites that are more widely known. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, are widely known and publicized. There are however many other social media sites that are not as widely known that are even more useful to nationwide security and communication such as crowdsourcing and Nixle and these are not as widely known (Su, Wardell, & Throkidsen, 2013). So while people in emergency management

A wide variety of people use social media and people see us as “always on our phones”. It is widely used throughout many generations. Professor Larry Rosen in Psychology Today explains how 70% of people in the last four generations have a Facebook account. Yet this study did not include our society, so this number is most likely greater now. But, as predicted, the same 2016 article tells us, “overall younger generations used more social media sites than older ones”. Teenagers can be seen being preoccupied on some type of technology. In a recent asking posted in the Huffington Post, modern American teens were asked about their social media. It showed that “90 percent of American teens say they use at least one social media site, and 71 percent of teens say they use at least two sites”. There are many different types of social media; social media as defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as “forms of electronic communication such as websites for social networking and microblogging through which users create online communities to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content. No matter what the reason, people use social media very often. The Pew Research Center tells us, “around seven-in-ten Americans use social media to connect with one another, engage with news content, share information and entertain themselves.” With an increase in popularity, even the older generations are catching on and joining media sites. The same source explains usage of these devices has increased 31% in people over the age of 65 over the last 11 years. Overall, we observe an extremely dramatic increase in usage for all age groups between the years of 2005 and 2016. Whether people like it or not, social

A new technology comes up and it integral the families and individuals life, wondering what can a technology reflect or interfere in our daily bases. Social media has many conflict that makes individuals be attached too. Families not having to visit each other face to face, because it’s an easier way to connect by socialism, such as network. Socialism in this aspect decreases the daily outdoors activity and having a good time with the family. A relationship with the family should bond. But individual families are becoming lazier. They try to find a way to make it much easier on them by texting, calling, Facebooking, last but not least tweeting. Communicating

All forms of social media and functions will be in communications plans and strategies. Emergency management will constantly be adapting to new technologies. There can no longer be media avoidance by emergency officials. Emergency agencies must accept the expanded role of communications in all four phases of emergency management and embrace it as a valuable tool in meeting the needs of the

(OPENING) The day started around six a.m. when I was abruptly awoken from a deep sleep by the howling of dogs. I got up as quietly as I could, made my way to kitchen, and noticed that the lights were on in my daughter’s room. Like a ninja warrior, I made my way down the hall, thrust the bedroom door open like I was the police entering a house of addicts. The girls immediately jumped, screamed and turned off all the electronic devices that they were playing with. As I began pilfering through their phones and laptops, I noticed that they had been spending a lot of time on Social Media and internet sites. This alarmed me and made me take a step back. I’ve heard that Social Media and the internet were tearing families apart, but I didn’t see it happening to mine. I asked myself the following questions: What is Social Media? Is Social Media and the internet responsible for the breakdowns of communication in families? Are kids addicted to Social Media and the internet? How can parents reinsert values back into their family so they function as one unit and are not “dysfunctional”? Throughout this essay, I will provide information that will answer the question “How is Social Media and the internet effecting families?” The effects of Social Media and the