{"id":15,"date":"2020-01-18T02:00:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-18T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephum\/?p=15"},"modified":"2020-01-18T02:00:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-18T09:00:43","slug":"assignment-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/josephum\/2020\/01\/18\/assignment-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment 1.3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">I have decided to answer question #7!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Being active in all kinds of social media myself, I have a couple of good examples of the advantages and disadvantages of social media.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In my opinion, I strongly believe that social media has a good side and a bad side. It is a double-edged sword. With access to the internet, words spread within a few seconds around the globe, whether it is good or bad. News about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-51158263\">Australia<\/a> finally getting heavy rain has traveled across the globe into our hand in a matter of seconds. With social media tools available to us these days, it is crucial for us to become media-aware and decide which information is credible and which is not.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">One of the good sides about social media is that it\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">provides an invisible barrier for evidence (or literature) so that they don&#8217;t get forgotten<\/span>. In my last post, I have talked about how studying literature helps us remember the right information about history and that it will prevent history from getting neglected and forgotten. Unless the publisher consciously deletes the evidence, the information on the web will likely stay where it is for a long long time. And that itself will help us remember things that are not supposed to be forgotten.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">However, the bad sides of social media is that words spread too fast, and it may result in devastating effects. Just to inform you about the effects of social media, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-50535937\">here<\/a> is an example of a K-pop star taking her own life because of cyber bullying. This clearly shows the destructive nature of social media. Tying this back to the question of the impact of social media on literature and story, it is crucial that the right information is published on the web as words spread fast, and by the time we realize that the information is false, it might be too late to correct our wrongdoings because it would have created prejudice among the readers that have already read the article and make false judgement based on the information they read through the web.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In the case of hyperlinks, I find it a really convenient and useful tool to engage the readers. The reason being is because of the want for more information readers experience. It provides the opportunity for readers to delve deep into the topic they wish to learn and a myriad of information readers can choose so that their questions are answered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Works Cited<\/p>\n<div id=\"copy-target-1441305868\" class=\"bibliography-item-copy-text content\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-clipboard-target=\"copy-target-1441305868\" data-redirect-target=\"\/items\/1441305868\/copy\" data-style-code=\"mla8\">\u201cAustralia Fires: Heavy Rains Hit Some Blaze-Hit Regions.\u201d\u00a0<i>BBC News<\/i>, BBC, 18 Jan. 2020, www.bbc.com\/news\/world-australia-51158263.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\" data-clipboard-target=\"copy-target-1441305868\" data-redirect-target=\"\/items\/1441305868\/copy\" data-style-code=\"mla8\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"copy-target-1441305804\" class=\"bibliography-item-copy-text content\" style=\"text-align: center;\" data-clipboard-target=\"copy-target-1441305804\" data-redirect-target=\"\/items\/1441305804\/copy\" data-style-code=\"mla8\">\u201cK-Pop Artist Goo Hara Found Dead at Home Aged 28.\u201d\u00a0<i>BBC News<\/i>, BBC, 24 Nov. 2019, www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-50535937.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone! I have decided to answer question #7! Being active in all kinds of social media myself, I have a couple of good examples of the advantages and disadvantages of social media. &nbsp; In my opinion, I strongly believe that social media has a good side and a bad side. 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