Mukherjee, Sanchita and Ghosh, Anamika (2017) Social media and freedom of expression – a study of user’s perception. Journal of Media and Social Development, 5 (3). pp. 12-22. ISSN 2320-8244
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Abstract
The concept of social media emerged to bring a greater connect between and among people to share and exchange ideas on a given topic. The canvas for social media is as wide as the sky. This platform can be used for reacting to any event or happening under the sun. As a matter of fact, social media has given an alternative to sincere journalism where each one can express his views, reviews and criticism candidly. The media provided platform for uploading videos and photographs to substantiate what the user wants to convey. However, the issue is whether, the social media uses the liberty to speak their hearts out, and does the society have that much fairness in accepting whatever that is written. Whoever starts using the social media initially thought that it could be free and fair for all. Nevertheless experiences are shown that there is some kind of intolerance in accepting negative comments and negative remarks on a given issue. In some instances, it drew the ire of the ruling party resulting in punishment or in passing comments on the social media without decency. The users many a time fail to understand that it is only one man’s view and one should respect it. But the recent trend is totally opposite. This paper precisely aims to investigate whether there is freedom of expression on the social networking sites. Whether our own users sit over the judgment of what one says and the action that follows? Since lot of youngsters get into this platform in millions everyday should they be taught the code of conduct while using this platform which are supposed to be free and fair? This paper tries to provide some answers.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Social Media, freedom of speech, Intolerance |
| Subjects: | A Arts and Humanities > Journalism and Mass Media Communication |
| Divisions: | Department of > Journalism and Mass Communication |
| Depositing User: | Dr Raju C |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Apr 2021 10:14 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Jul 2022 11:14 |
| URI: | http://eprints.uni-mysore.ac.in/id/eprint/16275 |
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