(Go to Con Arguments) Pro 1: Social media spurs antisocial ills, including digital addiction, cyberbullying, and mental health issues. Digital addiction is “a harmful dependence on digital media and devices.” Social media has been shown to act like gambling or recreational drugs: “the constan...
and argued that social media use has fomented its effects in the reaction to the Covid-19 pandemic by providing sustained access to commentary and linguistic interaction. I have suggested that this social interaction in a context of a volatile intellectual state...
This study explores the argumentative schemas used in claim-making and the rhetorical resources for stance-taking in the online abortion law debate in Poland in late 2016. It shows how these discursive devices were used to divide and discredit the opponent in the social media by two social ...
Continue reading The self-proclaimed progressive onclave social media platform designed to isolate the Good people from unclean thoughts and their Nazi neighbors is proving to be a magnificent social experiment testing the proposition that the Mutated Left of the 21st Century can’t tolerate dissent o...
Social Media Regulation has been a topic of ongoing debate and discussion in recent years. With the rise of social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok, there have been growing concerns about the impact of these platforms on society, including issues related to privacy,...
The huge increase of social media communities, along with their user tendency to debate, makes the identification of arguments in these texts a necessity. Argument extraction from Social Media is more challenging because texts may not always contain arguments, as is the case of legal documents or...
5.What You Post on Social Media Has a Faster Rate of Getting Indexed 6.Summing Up The short answer to all of these is yes. The matter has seen much debate in the last decade and is likely to continue having advocates on both sides. Some are of the opinion that the two are mutually...
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constructive conflict33, yet contrary to the popular characterization of conflict as the bane of modern social media, we found that in the context of a structured public debate, voicing conflict can promote integration, especially when it is used to counter a conflictive stance. We find indeed ...
Some of these employees also defend the company against criticism that appear on Twitter and other social media, and may use arguments that are not in line with company policy. I encounter dilemmas where I have to respond to the eager activities of well-meaning colleagues, without causing ...