Persuasive Essay On Subreddit

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However, media creators are not the only ones who monitor web 2.0 communities. Businesses monitor these communities for reception on products (Aguiton, Cardon, 2007). This is common with big corporations such as Sony. ‘Sony Interactive Entertainment’ use community feedback to discover what the Playstation community wants. They do this in particular for updating their console, by looking at what features are most commonly requested in the ‘Playstation’ subreddit (r/playstation) and then implementing them in future updates. Reddit even hold AMA (ask me anything) sessions, were guests on the AMA can be asked anything by the Reddit community. Popular business executives such as Bill Gates have been on a Reddit AMA’s, where the community asked him questions on that subreddit. Generally, they asked questions about products he is …show more content…

Barack Obamas presidential campaign was notorious for using web 2.0 platforms such as Reddit to spread political propaganda. It was one of the main reasons why his election campaign was so successful (Cogburn, Espinoza-Vasquez, 2011, p202). Even more recent Bernie Sanders has received huge popularity boosts from the subreddit dedicated to him (r/SandersForPresident). Lisa Pollack (2016) states how Bernie Sanders has the largest number of supporters out of any other presidential candidate with his Reddit community raising him 2.3 million dollars. His subreddit has so many followers that posts written on the subreddit become some of the most upvoted posts on the entirety of Reddit (Barthel, 2016). Politicians also use Reddit AMA’s as a tool to discuss legislation and bills they are trying to implement or pass with the Reddit community. Politicians such as Barack Obama, Arnold Schwarneger have used Reddit AMA before with great success. Barack Obamas AMA was so popular that Reddit crashed when it started (Alabaster, 2012). Reddit is now being used as a tool to