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Facebook: Powerful Medium For Civic Engagement Among College Students

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The Truth about FaceBook

The use of social media, specifically Facebook, impacts three essential components of good citizenship, responsibility, engagement and education. Throughout the article the author tells us that Facebook would be perceiving our value information that can be shown to our families, friends, and communities. The authors conducted a survey that questions 279 college students on their use of Facebook. It explored how the students would use it for civic engagement and the dialog they shared, thoughts and ideas about civic issues. Social media use for daily information and communication has helped empower engagement in the digital culture.

Social media Platforms such as Facebook require responsible use of information. …show more content…

In the article they talked about that numerous instances of sharing, dialog and expression around civic cause in the content of their daily social media use. (Paul Mihailidis and others page 303) Jenkins, purushotma, Weigel, Clinton, and Robinson explores the participatory nature of youth online, citing the prospective power media literacy has empower civic behaviors.(2009) Also In the article it said that we need to rethink civic engagement because how personal or how involved you can be in our communities. (Paul Mihailidis and others page 304) That is true that many people would use Facebook just to share their political views and just wanting to see what's going on in there neighborhood. Just seeing the power of the civic behaviors online is how engaged everyone is in today's day and …show more content…

However they need to know that critical citizenship requires citizens to be responsible for evaluating information on Facebook and then sharing it with others. (Paul Mihailidis and other page 304) Facebook is not responsible for what information that on the website because it's designed for people to give information to each other. “That I'll post it to Facebook just to get it out there and see what other people think about it “ and from doing that us as user we need to be responsible on what we put out their because not everything is going to be the right way to say things or show them on

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