Media and change (Social Media)
Social media has an incredibly long history, technically dating back as far back as 1844 with the invention of Morse Code. Communication across the world and the ability for social connections in the blink of an eye became evermore present as technology improved. Nowadays, almost anyone with a phone can communicate flawlessly across vast distances. Yet social media as we understand it today dates back to the 80s with the launch of instant messaging and public forums on the internet commonly referred to as web 2.0. The 2.0 aspect refers to the new way in which people consumed the web, including user-generated content and actually interactable media as before web 2.0, people didn't really have the chance to interact with anything. In earlier years Social media consisted mostly of message boards, chatrooms, catalogues and blogs, all ways in which people could come together and learn so much more about the outside world. This was before basic social media sites started to appear like M...