During our Contemporary Media Issues lecture, we were asked to create another Wikipedia page based on how social networking is employed to engage audiences. For this project, we were each put into a group and each given a topic to discuss that involves the aspects of social media. The topic that our group was given was the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. We began to research into what this was and different ways in which it affected the media. We were each asked to talk about a different topic relating to the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster. These topics included:
- The creation of communities
- Social networking as a market and distribution mechanism
- Social networking and identity
- Social networking and democracy
- Collective Intelligence
The topic that I discussed for this project was Social networking and identity. I felt that this was an interesting topic to discuss for the nuclear disaster because I started to discuss about how quickly the news spread and the ways in which it did over the internet. These ways included the likes of Facebook/Twitter/Youtube as people were uploading videos of what was happening and how much damage it caused. I have posted a link of our wikipedia for you to have a look at to see just how quickly news spread.
http://contemporarymediaissues.wetpaint.com/page/Fukishima+Nuclear+Disaster/thread
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