Week 05 Media Analysis Project - Final Paper

Media Analysis Project

Name: Rodney Wheeler

Institution: Rasmussen College

Course: G332/MMC3407 Section 03 Visual Communication in the Media

Date: 10/17/17

Media Analysis Project

The selected Media Analysis Project is the Facebook Website. It is important to note that Facebook Inc. has many users from different social and business settings. The site has enhanced communication among different people, hence improved outcomes on communication processes. With the advancing technologies, Facebook may enable game plays on the site accordingly improved outcomes.

Facebook was founded in 2004, a total of 13 years ago in the United States by Mark Zuckerberg, who is the CEO of the company. Currently, the site reaches people from outside the United States globally and has helped to improve communication. However, various concerns about the privacy of information posted on Facebook is evident. Due to the nature of the website to display mobile numbers and personal details such as contact addresses, it raises significant privacy concerns. The information of the users is available to the public unless they choose to hide the profile by themselves (Tremayne, 2017).

According to scientific research, the site is known to have detrimental effects psychologically (Tsay-Vogel, Shanahan, & Signorielli, 2016). One of these results is envy, whereby people may engage in insults and hence causing resentment within site. Moreover, there is the risk of stress when people comment negatively or respond to different aspects negatively. It is also evident that there is a potential addition to the site, and many people do not engage in their daily activities just to use the site.

Controversies regarding the content on the site are also questionable, since the media has people of different sorts, and following the regulations is not easy for some of these people. Moreover, advertisements are popped on the site, which affects the overall user experience. Students are also affected by the site since they are changed regarding education and the social interactions.

References

Tremayne, M. (2017). The Facebook Agenda: Global Social Media News Characteristics. American Communication Journal, 19(1).

Tsay-Vogel, M., Shanahan, J., & Signorielli, N. (2016). Social media are cultivating perceptions of privacy: A 5-year analysis of privacy attitudes and self-disclosure behaviors among Facebook users. new media & society, 1461444816660731.