How does social media use in public discourse potentially challenge advocacy communications?
Social media is a tool and platform that people use to share opinions, insights, experiences, and opinions with each other. At this stage, they mainly include social networking sites, Weibo, WeChat, blogs, forums, podcasts, and so on. Social media has flourished on the fertile soil of the Internet and has exploded with dizzying energy. The information it disseminates has become an important content for people to browse the Internet. It has not only created one hot topic after another in people’s social life, but also more. Attract traditional media to follow up.
advocacy media is relative to the Internet media that has emerged in recent years. The traditional mass communication methods are media that regularly release information to the public or provide education and entertainment platforms through certain mechanical devices, including newspapers, outdoor, communications, Radio, television, and networks other than self-media in the traditional sense.
How diverse is your existing PLN?
My personal learning network is diversified. Since the epidemic, our international students have relied more on online learning. The professors let us participate through different kinds of learning platforms. From face-to-face teaching, participating in the classroom, to online teaching now. We can choose to complete the same task in the same time, such as quiz, exam. You can also complete the same tasks at different times, such as our weekly homework. Even we can complete different assignments in different time periods, in the form of small groups, and so on. So PLN is diversified.
In your PLN, are you learning from a variety of voices?
In my pln, I am more willing to learn and listen to some insights on things or courses that are different from my own. Just like in this week’s reading, we can know that there is an inclusive factor. We need to listen to the voices of others more than what we should do. Everyone has their own natural areas of expertise and relatively weak ones. What we have to do is to tolerate and diversify more content.
How does social media engage in advocacy communications?
Use tik tok, one of the most popular social media platforms in my country, as an example. It has played a vital role in propaganda and communication. Due to the unique traffic characteristics, citizens all share and view other people’s dynamics on the platform. It’s not difficult to see from the top news items on the official push that it has played a very good role in propaganda for our motherland. At the same time, it complements the broadcasting station and carries out some important propaganda work.
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