DIGITAL LAW

DIGITAL LAW

Q6.1 What is digital socialization? How can social media change communities and their practices and traditions.

Digital socialization refers to the way people communicate and what they use to do so. It is the customs, quirks and language unique to a culture. The media can help the community by educating the community about current issues that happening around use keeping us informed with the truth. The internet involves millions of people from various countries as well as backgrounds and has developed their own cultural quirks all on its own. 

Facebook has more than 800 million active users in 2012. The micro-blogging platform Twitter has 100 million, while the business communication network LinkedIn claims 64 million users. Internet socialization involves a huge number of people worldwide. Many American users consider Internet socializing as having a positive impact.

reference

http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/1369118X.2015.1007074

Q6.2 What ethical issues could arise as a result of digital socialization

False news, misleading the public and over exaggerating of actual events that has happened. This can cause an ethical issue in digital socialization

In a world that is constantly changing and new technology as well as media platforms forming it is easy to lose sight of your ethics, having social media as a career it is easy to put on a personal that is not a true reflection of who you are. Having such a huge following on social media it is important for these public figures to or media content creators to grapple with ethical issues as well. Many bloggers, and public figures show a lot of their lives on social media making them easy targets for hacking as well robbing both online as well as in real life.