SOCIAL MEDIA This Chinese video app is similar to TikTok, but the content is GIANTS generally more diversified and lifestyle-focused. KUAISHOU Sina Bytedance Weibo U.S. 566M Baidu The average internet user spends 2.5 hours on social media platforms each day. TENCENT Asia Tieba 300M Rokuten Douyin 550M Middle East the most popular among users, and what companies own these platforms? Which social media networks are WeChat OZone 600M Viber 250M 1.2B NAVER Meta 00 8 591M DISCORD Telegram 169M picsare 140M BIGO 150M pogeBites Telegram 600M Likee 150M 00 is a Chinese messaging app. with similar features to Skype. It was China's main messaging platform before WeChat entered the scene. 212M quora Facebook Q Quora 300M WhatsApp 2.0B 2.9B Across its four platforms. Meta has a total of 7.5 billion monthly active users Reddit Alphabet Reddit 430M Instagram 1.3B pinterest Messenger 1.3B Every hour, approximately 30,000 hours of newly uploaded content gets uploaded into YouTube. (Source: Statista). Pinterest 454M Twitter Microsofe YouTube 2.3B Snap Skype 300M Twitter 463M New users are joining social media platforms every day. As these networks continue to grow, Snapchat 538M Teams in 250M Linkedin 310M Linkedin doesn't publish its monthly active user data- this figure is the most recent estimate available. SOURCES: Business of Apps, China Internet Watch, Company Earnings Reports, Digital 2021 0ctober Global Snapshot Report, Dragon Social, The Motley Fool, The Next Web, SEC FIlings, Sensor Tower, Statista, Tech Crunch, Venture Beat will Meta remain the king of social? O

Understanding Business

12th Edition

ISBN:9781259929434

Author:William Nickels

Publisher:William Nickels

Chapter1: Taking Risks And Making Profits Within The Dynamic Business Environment

Section: Chapter Questions

Problem 1CE

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More than one hundred years ago, John Dewey wrote in Democracy and Education that a society is not only supported by various forms of communication but also enveloped in communication. Dewey reiterated what philosophers and scholars had noted for centuries: small groups, larger communities and vast institutions — all the things that make up the cultural context within a society — function in relation to how communication flows within and between groups.

With that in mind, we have seen in this module as well as materials in the chapter that communication is a critical building block as well as catalyst of cultural socialization, cultural collision, cultural change, and cultural imperialism.

Specifically, mass communication influences both society and culture. Different societies have different media systems, and the way they are set up by law influences how the society works. Different forms of communication, including messages in the mass media, give shape and structure to society--again, think of the "communication" between cultures taking place in terms of Turkisk Soap Operas.

Now, with that said, increasingly we have to rethink the idea of culture and communication given the digitalization of both through people’s participation on social media platforms. Currently, there are over 4.5 billion people around the world who use some form of social media—about 57% of the global population. Moreover, the average internet user spends 2.5 hours on social media platforms each day.

Yet, while social media’s audience is widespread and diverse, just a handful of companies control a majority of the world’s most popular social media platforms.

Below, you see the social media networks the are most popular among users, and the companies that own the platforms

Based on the info in the graphic, all of the following are reasonable inferences except for _________.

A) Social media, from a little to a lot, influences the formation of various identities and cultures.

B) As internet access worldwide continues to grow, so too will the number of social media users.

C) Social media provide an expanding transnational transmission of cultural ideas, information and identities.

D) Social media users across the globe see media and messages from an increasing variety of sources liver through an increasing variety of platforms that share in increasing diversity of perspectives.

El Social media increases the connections between people, thereby creating an environment in which people anywhere and everywhere can easily share opinions, pictures, ideas, images, etc.