How Social Media Affects Politics By Heather Satterfield

To explain it in other way and more detally, nowadays, thanks to the fast advance of technology, our lives had become easier than before. The technology that we have today, tied with Internet access had provide human beings with easy access to information, faster ways to communicate with others around the world and equally important, it has allow society to be introduce to e-commerce. Furthermore, it had expand our admission to social media sources. Unfortunately, in today’s society, several organization as well as the government take advantages of the internet, which helps them to get the attention of individuals globally.

As stated by an online article titled “How Social Media Affects Politics” by Heather Satterfield, a marketing manager;

As how the book explains it by itself, propaganda model shapes what the media does and presents. It talks about “the nine giants”, organizations that dominate the media universe and play an impactful role in society. By the same token, Herman and Chomsky argued that the internet has limitations as a critical tool, due to the private and concentrated control that the government has over it to limit the internet to be used as a democratic media vehicle. I agree with their claim because the information that we post on the internet is vulnerable to suffer sabotage from people who are more advanced in the use of technology, in other word, best known as

Politics had been used the internet as the main source of propaganda, which has increased the competition of advertisements that pretend to change or pursue society to vote or act in an specific way based on their politics preferences. It is important that people realize that the internet is not the only biased source that organizations use to deliver their propaganda; magazines, movies, books,newspapers, TV programs, music, videos and even toys are used as effective vehicles for hidden ideological messages (XVIII). As stated by Herman and Chomsky, researches had revel that there are about 20,000 more specialized people working to “doctor the news”, That there are journalists writing them. It is tragic to know this shocking fact because it is basically telling the readers that the media is ubiquitous and more dangerous it comes