social media
Definition
Social media encompasses a wide range of online platforms and applications that enable users to create, share content, and participate in social networking. It has become a significant tool for communication, information sharing, and influencing public opinion.
Analogy
Social media is like the town square of the digital age, where people from all walks of life gather to exchange ideas, offer opinions, and spread news, transforming individual voices into powerful collective forces.
Related terms
Public Opinion: The aggregate of individual attitudes or beliefs held by the adult population concerning political issues or policies.
Political Socialization: The process by which individuals learn and frequently internalize a political lens framing their perceptions of how power is arranged and how the world around them is (and should be) organized; those perceptions, in turn, shape and define individuals’ definitions of who they are and how they should behave in the political and economic institutions in which they live.
Digital Activism: The use of digital tools (such as social media) to bring about political or social change
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