Many of the information people post on their social networking websites are surprisingly private information. If I “stalk” a person with a Facebook or Instagram account, I could find out more about them than what their parents may know. This…
Does Emojis affect our communication?
According to the statistic from Emojitracker website, people use approximately 300 emoji tweets a second. As the smartphones and social networks developed, people are replacing their words with emojis, which emojis became a sub-language. People express their emotions, and feelings…
Looking at a Practice of Journalism & Dissemination of News Among Worldwide Asian Diaspora.
Many of CCTVNews’s facebook status posts include screen snapshots of popular twitter feeds, use references to conversation on Twitter. But they rarely linked to longer, business-like articles. I used google to find the more legitimate-looking, ‘official’ versions of the CCTVNews articles on…
Violence in the “Hashtag” Culture
When the word “hashtag” is mentioned, we are quick to associate it with a practice on social networks, rather than its original intention as a symbol in information technology. The practice of hashtagging originated in 2009 on the worldwide social…