{"id":4287,"date":"2024-04-25T16:06:27","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T08:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/?p=4287"},"modified":"2024-04-25T16:06:27","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T08:06:27","slug":"although-social-media-can-perpetuate-misinformation-it-fundamentally-empowers-individuals-particularly-during-crises-such-as-the-conflict-in-gaza-enabling-them-to-act-as-citizen-journalists-and-thu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/uncategorized\/4287\/although-social-media-can-perpetuate-misinformation-it-fundamentally-empowers-individuals-particularly-during-crises-such-as-the-conflict-in-gaza-enabling-them-to-act-as-citizen-journalists-and-thu\/","title":{"rendered":"Although social media can perpetuate misinformation, it fundamentally empowers individuals, particularly during crises such as the conflict in Gaza, enabling them to act as citizen journalists and thus democratizing journalism."},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIntroduction \r\n\r\nIn the digital age, social media has become a pivotal platform for journalism, revolutionizing the dissemination and consumption of media on a global context. The traditional roles of journalists are being re-imagined as social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have removed the boundaries to allow ordinary citizens to broadcast real-time updates and engage with a global audience directly. This participatory form of journalism has empowered individuals <a href=\"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/uncategorized\/4287\/although-social-media-can-perpetuate-misinformation-it-fundamentally-empowers-individuals-particularly-during-crises-such-as-the-conflict-in-gaza-enabling-them-to-act-as-citizen-journalists-and-thu\/\" class=\"more-link\">...<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction In the digital age, social media has become a pivotal platform for journalism, revolutionizing the dissemination and consumption of media on a global context. The traditional roles of journalists are being re-imagined as social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram have removed the boundaries to allow ordinary citizens to broadcast real-time updates and engage with a global audience directly. This participatory form of journalism has empowered individuals &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":450,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/450"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4287\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkconference.netstudies.org\/2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}