{"id":1424,"date":"2022-05-11T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2022-05-11T13:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2022-05-12T20:12:59","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T12:12:59","slug":"social-media-current-affairs-influences-negativity-and-political-discourse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/csm\/1424\/social-media-current-affairs-influences-negativity-and-political-discourse\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media, current affairs, influences, negativity and political discourse"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\nSocial media raises awareness of current affairs and spreads influences. However, it is also an outlet for negativity and adverse political discourse.&nbsp;\r\n&nbsp;\r\nSocial media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are popular with users worldwide. These platforms brought people and organisations together, allowing them to connect and interact in real-time (Vanderkaay, 2010). Many users are probably unaware of the downsides of social media. Usually, the positive traits <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/csm\/1424\/social-media-current-affairs-influences-negativity-and-political-discourse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Social media raises awareness of current affairs and spreads influences. However, it is also an outlet for negativity and adverse political discourse.&nbsp; &nbsp; Social media platforms such as Facebook,<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn button-secondary\" href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/csm\/1424\/social-media-current-affairs-influences-negativity-and-political-discourse\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":154,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"index","bgseo_robots_follow":"follow","crio-premium-page-header-override":null,"crio-premium-page-header-select":"none","crio-premium-page-header-background":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[25,62,286,283,284,285,82],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-csm","category-onsc","tag-social-media","tag-communities","tag-discrimination","tag-influences","tag-negativity","tag-political-discourse","tag-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/154"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1461,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}