The Impact of Social Media on Knowledge Culture

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Author(s): Samantha Engel (Wroxton College, UK of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Wroxton, UK)and Linda Lee-Davies (Wroxton College, UK of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Wroxton, UK)
Copyright: 2019
Volume: 10
Issue: 1
Pages: 12
Source title: International Journal of Smart Education and Urban Society (IJSEUS)
Editor(s)-in-Chief: Linda Daniela (University of Latvia, Latvia)
DOI: 10.4018/IJSEUS.2019010104

Keywords: Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / Knowledge Society / Social Sciences & Humanities

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Abstract

Culture is not static and technological innovations have greatly changed culture throughout history, no more so than in recent years. Modern culture is very much influenced and defined by recent technology and media use, primarily through social media applications such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Snapchat and Twitter. Although use and impact vary around the world, globalization brings this cultural change into wider and faster channels. Social media has transformed the way people interact and learn in local, national and international terms as well as evolving new social practices. Echo chambers, filter bubbles, and fake news dominate the internet and people's lives, determining and even limiting the content of learning that people are exposed to on social media platforms. This, in itself, channels cultural practice into homogenized tranches creating a cyclical influence which feeds back into evolving technology. This article sets out to discuss the current cultural impact of social media, its limitation on learning and surface the ethical issues surrounding its use.

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