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Research on the Impact of Social Networks on News Spread
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Abstract
The selected topic of this paper is to use the theories of social networks to explain how the news spread among people and how the digital technologies have changed the ways for the news to spread. This topic is selected when it is meaningful and valuable as the findings will be beneficial for studying interpersonal relations and psychological well-being, political participation and civic engagement This paper tries to conduct a preliminary research to understand this topic, and it finds out that social network could promote the dissemination of news when people are connected in a social network and they exchange messages and news. The results show that online social network will promote the spread of fake news, which will cause big negative impacts on the society. Therefore, the arguments relevant to the selected topic have been surrounding the negative and positive roles of social network for social learning and the spread of news. This paper also calls for actions from individuals to act as moral polices, and stop the spreading of fake news, and promote healthy social learning, when individuals are the gatekeepers for fake news.
Keywords
social network, news spread, digital technology
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- Volume Title
- Proceedings of the International Conference on Global Politics and Socio-Humanities
- ISBN (Print)
- 978-1-83558-167-4
- ISBN (Online)
- 978-1-83558-168-1
- Published Date
- 28 November 2023
- Series
- Communications in Humanities Research
- ISSN (Print)
- 2753-7064
- ISSN (Online)
- 2753-7072
- DOI
- 10.54254/2753-7064/17/20230733
- Copyright
- 28 November 2023
- Open Access
- This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited