The Social Media Effect

News on Social Media is:

• More accessible , therefore quicker and better than newspapers
• Participatory media as people can comment and react to the news with feedback to the publisher.
• The use and growth of 'We Media' as the public report on news headlines before they break.
• Democratisation of the news , less lying in the news as people can prove the truth fr5om eye witness accounts being published on twitter and other social medias.

Clay Shirky:

Media used to be distributed one to one or one to many in a group of colleagues or friends.
With the invention of the internet and the rise of social media news reporting, media has become many to many as groups of people on comments and public posts interact with each other and discuss their personal views and the views of other people in the comments