Author: Elle West Publisher: ISBN: 9781726035897 Category : Languages : en Pages : 178
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Exposes the dangers of the Internet and social media. With billions of people on social media today, we have a responsibility as parents to mentor and monitor our children. Predators and pedophiles hide in the shadows through online games, social media, and apps, posing a serious risk to unsuspecting children. This book gives you the tools to protect children in the digital age. Everyone, no matter their socioeconomic status or demographic is at risk. As parents, we have to be diligent in the protection of our children as they navigate the online world. For more information, visit mustardseedalliance.org
Author: Paul Otway Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1984502565 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 49
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This book's purpose is to warn people of the dangers of too much social media usage, also exposing dangers that exist with social media.
Author: Annmarie Bennet Publisher: Nova Science Publishers ISBN: 9781634631754 Category : Social media Languages : en Pages : 0
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The prevalence of social media avails individual users and organizations with unprecedented access to personal information that was once arduous to gather. Undoubtedly, privacy concerns on social media platforms become critically important as vendors can now potentially have access to a large collection of users' personal information. This book discusses the privacy concerns in using social media. It discusses the negative impact social media has on different populations; the use of social media for job placement; the dangers of social media for the psyche; and videos as a form of transmedia storytelling.
Author: Katherine Ormerod Publisher: Cassell ISBN: 1788401107 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 256
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Do you ever obsess about your body? Do you lie awake at night, fretting about the state of your career? Does everyone else's life seem better than yours? Does it feel as if you'll never be good enough? Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life tackles head on the pressure cooker of comparison and unreachable levels of perfection that social media has created in our modern world. In this book, Katherine Ormerod meets the experts involved in curating, building and combating the most addictive digital force humankind has ever created. From global influencers - who collectively have over 10 million followers - to clinical psychologists, plastic surgeons and professors, Katherine uncovers how our relationship with social media has rewired our behavioural patterns, destroyed our confidence and shattered our attention spans. Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life is a rallying cry that will provide you with the knowledge, tactics and weaponry you need to find a more healthy way to consume social media and reclaim your happiness. Reviews for Why Social Media is Ruining Your Life: 'This book is a call to arms from the eye of the storm' - Emma Gannon, author of The Multi-Hyphen Method 'Enter Ormerod's vital manual, which will help you navigate social media and turn it not into a weapon, but a useful tool' - Pandora Sykes
Author: Pavica Sheldon Publisher: Academic Press ISBN: 0128162767 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 190
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The Dark Side of Social Media: Psychological, Managerial, and Societal Perspectives examines how social media can negatively affect our lives. The book tackles issues related to social media such as emotional and mental health, shortened attention spans, selective self-presentation and narcissism, the declining quality of interpersonal relationships, privacy and security, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, misinformation and online deception, and negative peer effects. It goes on to discuss social media and companies (loss of power, challenging control mechanisms) and societies as a whole (fake news, chatbots, changes in the workplace). The Dark Side of Social Media: Psychological, Managerial, and Societal Perspectives empowers readers to have a more holistic understanding of the consequences of utilizing social media. It does not necessarily argue that social media is a bad development, but rather serves to complement the numerous empirical findings on the "bright side" of social media with a cautionary view on the negative developments. - Focuses on interpersonal communication through social media - Focuses on psychology of media effects - Explores social media issues on both an individual and societal level - Documents the rise of social media from niche phenomenon to mass market - Examines the differences between creating and consuming content
Author: Cass R. Sunstein Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400890527 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 333
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From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy—and what can be done about it As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It's no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand one another. It's also no surprise that terrorist groups have been able to exploit social media to deadly effect. Welcome to the age of #Republic. In this revealing book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein shows how today’s Internet is driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism--and what can be done about it. He proposes practical and legal changes to make the Internet friendlier to democratic deliberation, showing that #Republic need not be an ironic term. Rather, it can be a rallying cry for the kind of democracy that citizens of diverse societies need most.
Author: Sadie Robertson Huff Publisher: Thomas Nelson ISBN: 0785289941 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 225
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If influencers have power over us, who are you allowing to influence you? In an online world obsessed with follows and likes, it’s important to consider what you’re really searching for. When you follow someone, it’s typically because you want to be like them or live like they do–but who have you placed as your role models? In Who Are You Following? bestselling author and social media personality Sadie Robertson Huff dives deep into exploring who we are allowing to influence our daily thoughts and actions. With an excellent grasp of scriptural truths, using current research, surveys, and personal and biblical stories, Sadie draws on her own experience as a social media influencer and addresses topics such as how to go from being liked to being truly loved our true motives for fame being seen from the outside versus being known comparing ourselves to others questioning why did I post that?! how to respond to cancel culture wondering does God still love me? This book is perfect for young Christians wondering how they can live a vibrant, bold, and uncompromising life of faith in God by following the Messiah–the ultimate influencer. Discover the love, purpose, and fulfillment that is found only in Jesus.
Author: Jaron Lanier Publisher: Henry Holt and Company ISBN: 1250196698 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 160
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AS SEEN IN THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY THE SOCIAL DILEMMA A WIRED "ALL-TIME FAVORITE BOOK" A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST BOOK "THE CONSCIENCE OF SILICON VALLEY"- GQ “Profound . . . Lanier shows the tactical value of appealing to the conscience of the individual. In the face of his earnest argument, I felt a piercing shame about my own presence on Facebook. I heeded his plea and deleted my account.” - Franklin Foer, The New York Times Book Review “Mixes prophetic wisdom with a simple practicality . . . Essential reading.” - The New York Times (Summer Reading Preview) You might have trouble imagining life without your social media accounts, but virtual reality pioneer Jaron Lanier insists that we’re better off without them. In Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now, Lanier, who participates in no social media, offers powerful and personal reasons for all of us to leave these dangerous online platforms. Lanier’s reasons for freeing ourselves from social media’s poisonous grip include its tendency to bring out the worst in us, to make politics terrifying, to trick us with illusions of popularity and success, to twist our relationship with the truth, to disconnect us from other people even as we are more “connected” than ever, to rob us of our free will with relentless targeted ads. How can we remain autonomous in a world where we are under continual surveillance and are constantly being prodded by algorithms run by some of the richest corporations in history that have no way of making money other than being paid to manipulate our behavior? How could the benefits of social media possibly outweigh the catastrophic losses to our personal dignity, happiness, and freedom? Lanier remains a tech optimist, so while demonstrating the evil that rules social media business models today, he also envisions a humanistic setting for social networking that can direct us toward a richer and fuller way of living and connecting with our world.
Author: Kira Mertens Publisher: GRIN Verlag ISBN: 3346652297 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 71
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Bachelor Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Communications - Public Relations, Advertising, Marketing, Social Media, grade: 1,1, Westfälische Hochschule Gelsenkirchen, Bocholt, Recklinghausen, language: English, abstract: The following Bachelor thesis is meant to analyze if and how cancel culture and shitstorms online, especially on social media, can affect companies and how affected companies can recover from the outcomes. For avid social media users online shitstorms, especially on the platform Twitter, can frequently be witnessed. It was therefore a very interesting topic to look further into, to be able to understand what can trigger a shitstorm and what the consequences for companies could look like. This thesis is also supposed to answer if or how a company can recover from a shitstorm, if they were affected by one. Furthermore it is meant to show what effective measurements could look like and if shitstorms could even be prevented in the first place and if yes, how they could be prevented. To achieve that, the first step will be to take a closer look at what makes social media so important to businesses. For that, an insight on the most important social media apps and websites will be given. After that, the dangers of social media to companies will be analyzed. The thesis will then continue by showing what makes shitstorms and cancel culture dangerous to a company. To achieve that, possible triggers of a shitstorm will be analyzed, as well as what phases a shitstorm has and what possible outcomes could look like. Furthermore, a closer look will be taken at how consumers react to shitstorms by analyzing the results of a self made survey. The survey was made to understand, if and how consumers let shitstorms influence their buying decisions and if they would stop buying a certain product or brand if they were involved in a shitstorm. Following that, three companies, Nestlé, Amazon and Nike, which have already been at the center of a shitstorm, will be analyzed as case studies. To analyze the companies, a closer look will be taken at the reasons for these shitstorms, how each company was affected in terms of image and revenue and how they handled the situation. Furthermore, it will be explained if shitstorms could be prevented in the first place and how to successfully manage and recover from a shitstorm when affected by one. For this, a best practice example will be given in chapter 6.
Author: Lee Simon Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1456842579 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 24
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Keep your kid(s) out of danger! Pre-teens, teens, and young adults are growing up immersed in a bunch of electronic social media. Some are quite benign, but many are a grave social danger to the young people. Sure, it’s true that kids have always hung out and gossiped and made fun of each other and flirted and bullied other kids. What is new, with the advent of electronic social media, is the ease and quantity of access to kids, and access to them by bullies and sexual predators. This book explores those dangers and gives parents lots of suggestions on how to deal with this situation. Electronic social media is brand new; it is pervasive; and nobody knows how it is going to change the world. Any responsible parent these days needs to know what it is, and what its dangers are. Even though it has some positive aspects, social media is not without its many ramifications that are negative, poorly understood, and putting young people at risk A responsible parent must not get into denial of it, nor minimize the dangers young kids are subject to. This book will educate you about the dangers and give you an opportunity to make informed decisions with your child.
Author: Elle West
Author: Paul Otway
Author: Annmarie Bennet
Author: Katherine Ormerod
Author: Pavica Sheldon
Author: Cass R. Sunstein
Author: Sadie Robertson Huff
Author: Jaron Lanier
Author: Kira Mertens
Author: Lee Simon