How has Social Media Changed Politics?

The prevalence of social media in politics has made elected officials and candidates for the public office more accountable and accessible to the voters. The ability to continue to publish content and also broadcast it to the millions of people in the United States directly allows campaigns to carefully manage the candidates who run images based on the rich sets of analytics in real time and at almost little to no cost. The use of sites like twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube has dramatically changed the way candidates’ campaigns are run and how Americans interact with their elected officials.

These platforms have allowed candidates that are running to speak without has to spending a dime. Using social media allows politicians to circumvent the usual method of reaching voters with is through paid advertising or the earned media (Murse,2019).

Social media has helped to change politics in many ways. It has allowed candidates to “money bombs” which is to raise largest amounts of cash in a short amount of time. This money bombs are 24-hour periods and candidates press their supporters very hard to donate money to their campaign (Murse,2019). In the election of former president Barack Obama there where digital media platforms that where in place to reach young voters to help him when in the 2008 election. Since then its growing use and the influence caused a raise of alarms in the form of the possible Russian interference of the presidential election in 2016 (Thakkar,2018).

Apps like twitter, Instagram, and Facebook has caused a increase in political participation. Even though the democratic party has not had the best track record with social media, it has proven difficult to really sustain the political interest and activism online over a period of time and also move more electronic engagement from campaigns to governance. A study on political socialization has examined that the development of the political participation during early adulthood and adolescence. We have explored the effect of parents, peers, school media, and the voluntary associations on the political participation. The self-reported data that was collected from 3,025 Belgian 3,025 adolescents at three different points in time.

Latest growth curve was conducted to analyze the effect of the five different of political participation. It was found that all political socialization agents had influenced the initial level and the development of political participation (Quintelier,2013). People have begun to use Facebook pages and groups for their purpose of entering into direct conversations with citizens online and encouraging the citizens on more political discussions.

Studies in the pass has showed that from the perspective of political institutions, but from social media their emerging need to continuously collect, analyze, visualize, and monitor that are politically relevant. However, systematic tracking and analysis approaches along with the appropriate techniques and scientific methods in the political domain that are currently still lacking. The framework of research summarizes the most important political issues that are relevant from the different perspectives of corresponding methodologies and political institutions from scientific disciplines (Stieglitz,2013).

From data found in a document of over the last two decades has come to show that the citizens of the united states are expressing that there trust for the government is in the lower levels. When using data from the year 1996 from the American national election study, it was found that the media use only affects the social trust that citizens have (Moy,2000). Even though Russia is not in the united states it still affects the U.S. and its politics. Using a more realistic approach like social networks help candidates or government officials communicate with society.

Russia poses the question of what kind of social networking so the possibly consider. It’s obvious that networks with trust has access to the power systems that have to be distinguished from the networks without such links to the systems of the political power. It had been discovered that at the least three problem distinctions in the discussion about the positive and negative effects on the social capital which means either two things it is reflected but only on a rather general way or it is not reflected at all (Hayoz). From when Dr. Martin Luther king’s time social media has helped today’s society in many ways. Dr. King wrote a letter called the letter from Birmingham jail.

Lucky the letter had been sent out to the society so everyone could see how unfairly the African Americans had been treated but what if the letter was actual never sent or made it from the jail. Social media has made a way where people can directly comment in a matter of seconds without having to wait days, weeks, or even months. However, in dr. King’s letter he stated his experiences with what he had done and what he was trying to accomplish. Dr. King stated, “we know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.’’ Back in that time it would have been a lot easier if social media was around so that more people could see how unfairly the African American society has been treated.

The African American people had waited for over 340 years for their god given and constitutional rights. They had expressed a huge deal of anxiety over their willingness to break laws. How can the people of color determine if a law is unjust or just? A just law is a human code that squares with the moral law or the law of god. However, an unjust law is a code that is considered out of harmony with moral law. Any law that uplifts human personality if considered a just law. An unjust law if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of the people being denied there right to vote, had no part in devising or enacting laws.

The police force in Birmingham at the time where claiming to keep order and preventing violence. However, the police back then caused a lot of pain and hurt to the people and families because of the experiences they had gone through. There were high school and college students, the ministers of the church and the hosted elders, nonviolently and courageously sitting in lunch counters, willingly going to jail to help change (King,1983). Social media has since them last decade became where many people mostly live their lives. Social media is the important part of people’s online lives. The less personal nature of online communication makes it easier for information to be distorted, there are examples of good practice to promote interfaith dialogue.

Any communication between people of different religious points of view is sometimes also described as dialogue. However, it is not – dialogue is not a simple synonymous with in communication. In other from a real dialogue or communication it has to be genuine hearing from both parties of a communication. With mobile being of course very personal, with continuous access, interactive and capture the social the social context of the media where the user and the sender are not fixed (Kessler, E). We propose a model for examining the moderating effect of trust and social support on the relationship between organizational politics and job outcomes.

The model was tested empirically using data collected among 142 academics in one of Israel’s major research universities. Findings based on interaction effects support the hypothesis that trust and social support are good moderators of the relationship between perceived organizational politics with are also called (POPs) and several job outcomes (i.e., job satisfaction, organizational commitment, stress, burnout). In other words, the potentially negative aftermaths of POPs can be controlled and reduced when trust and social support dominate the intra?organizational climate. Theoretical and practical implications of the findings, as well as recommendations for future studies, are suggested (Gadot, E). Following the Arab Spring in 2011, social media was hailed as a boon for democracy.

Now, less than a decade later, the headlines are taking a different tone – concern that social media is threatening democracy. People are probably going to see more headlines about social media and its effect on government on Election Day, since it has become clear that this is a serious issue we need to examine. However, it can be hard to understand, because there are many different things going on such as user privacy breaches, influence campaigns, bots, foreign governments, fake news, etc. By being thoughtful of the things that society are doing on social media, everyone all has a role to play in creating social media environments that further the good causes of democracy.

The news and political opinions that society, the people that others follow and the tools that are available all have political effects. Even the ability to avoid politics on social media has potential repercussions on who turns out to vote and who stays home, who knows what is happening and who does not, and whether we develop charity for different viewpoints or do not ( Fitzpatrick,K).

In conclusion, the effects of social media have affected politics on a positive and negative level. Candidates must be careful of the things that they post and say because it can come back on hurt them. From the times of the late great Martin Luther king to now things have changed a great deal. Dr. King went to jail to prove what he believed in but if social media was around in that time it would have helped to not only gather the people in Birmingham but the people all over.

Social media has helped candidates be a lot more direct with the people that support their campaign to inform them. It has also allowed candidates to get their campaigns out there without having to pay for advertising. However, there are times when something that a candidate or government official says that is not meant to harm or offend. Just like the everyday person candiates or the government officials should watch what they say on social media.

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