Social Group Synthesis Essay

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This led us to table 1. This table clearly shows variety of gereric topics addressed. It indicates that some topics, such as daily life, human relationships, animals, and references to the Internet and science, are tackled far more often than others. Other topics such as religion, media, and references to 9GAG seem rather unusual. Using the table as a basis, Wagener observed some important points: (a) the frequency of topics changed considerably depending on the day, which shows the importance of the input of users, productions, and votes; (b) the high number of publications linked to sports due to the Olympic Games, which occurred in London during the summer of 2012; (c) even on a website that claims to follow transnational objectives (by crossing borders between nations and even between social groups), the majority of users display their sense of belonging to the community by targeting specific social groups; and lastly, (d) bonding on 9GAG would thus be possible by making fun of particular social categories of people which simply means that social networking sites particularly 9GAG act as an agent of discrimination. (Wagener 2014). …show more content…

The five major categories of discrimination can be demilinated when studying the way discrimination is carried on the website can be seen on figure 2. According to this analysis, almost 11.15% ofthe posts are targeted against specific groups. More than 1 in 10 publications on 9GAG are based on easily visible discrimination, which shows the limits of bringing people together within an online community (Wagener 2014). And Illustration 1 supports the present analysis by showing precisely how discrimination is displayed on the website, mostly through