Identity and Online Advocacy

Instagram as the platform that ‘’dupes’’ online identities of the users

Jaulim19616810ConferencePaperDownload Instagram as the platform that ‘’dupes’’ online identities of the users Abstract: This conference paper explores and underscores how Instagram, as a very well know social media platform, that has redefined identities of its audiences and how they re-build their identities. This paper will elaborate the argument is that, being a very active platform, instagrammers use Instagram as a means to create an alternate identity online. Instagram is a Read more […]

Identity and Online Advocacy

Instagram: A virtual platform in ‘crafting’ the well-being of young women.

Instagram-a-virtual-center-of-wellbeing-for-young-women-in-crafting-their-identityDownload Abstract. The purpose of this paper is to carefully delineate with coherent paradigms on the factors nurturing the well-being in young women on a specific social media platform, Instagram. This dominant online bubble works as subterraneous yet crucial platform in enhancing their well-being, which consequently outlines and defines their identity. Web 2.0 made it possible to extend this physical reality Read more […]

Communities and Social Media

Facebook’s segregation of communities is fueling the destruction of democracy.

Abstract: The public sphere’s operation is dependent on the open access of locations that enable people to congregate together and participate in political deliberations. Virtual communities implemented through social media have reshaped the public sphere’s third spaces of discussion. But Facebook’s compartmentalisation of communities is detrimental to the operation of the public sphere. Facebook’s generation of echo chamber induced groups enables a polarised feedback mechanism which increases Read more […]