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Social Media Annotated Bibliography

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Social Media plays a massive part in how we think and act in modern-day society. Social Media not only entertains us through the use of influencers and different but also messes with our perceptions of political groups and different movements without us even realizing it. I'd like to refer to it as a method of unconscious brain control that occurs without our knowledge. Users from all over the world can now share their own personal opinions on Twitter, Reddit, Tik Tok, and Instagram to be easily consumed by millions of people. These posts easily persuade a significant number of internet users, who start to agree with them depending on how many interactions they receive rather than doing their own fact-checking.
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This ethnography will feature research from two scholarly sources describing social media's influence on the minds of the public and two primary sources received from my friends and family who are heavily active on social media. These sources will aid in showing the extent to which social media influences people's formation of biases and opinions.
Keywords: Social Media, Bias, Influence, Political, Opinion
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Weeks, Brian E., Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu, and Homero Gil de Zúñiga. "Online influence? Social media use, opinion leadership, and political persuasion." International journal of public opinion research 29.2 (2017): 214-239. The article titled "Online Influence: Social Media Use, Opinion Leadership, and Political Persuasion" is written by Brian Weeks, Alberto Ardèvol-Abreu, and Homero Gil de Zúñiga and published in the …show more content…

It was published in 2013. The study seeks to examine the role of social media in protest behavior and the factors that drive individuals to participate in such behavior. The author proposes a theoretical idea that suggests that information acquisition, opinion expression, and activism are three key motivations for using social media for protest behavior. The author concludes that social media is an important tool for protest behavior and that the role of social media in protest behavior is influenced by individuals' motivations for using it. Studies revealed that there is a strong relationship between social media and social movements. The author is an assistant professor at the School of Communications at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. He specializes in political communication, social media, and public opinion research which makes him pretty trustworthy in this topic. The study's results imply that social media can facilitate information exchange, increase opinion expression, and stimulate activism, which can increase protest

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