The Power and The Curse of Social Media

What is Social Media?

http://webtrends.about.com/od/web20/a/social-media.htm

Pros & Cons

Breaking news

 Mobilising political Movements

Click Bait & Memes

http://knowyourmeme.com

You only die twice..

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/feb/16/tony-harts-second-death-are-greatly-exaggerated

That Dress

http://descrier.co.uk/oddities/thedress-internet-confused-if-dress-is-white-and-gold-or-blue-and-black/

Bloopers

http://www.informationweek.com/software/social/10-worst-social-media-meltdowns-of-2013/d/d-id/1112936

http://www.businessinsider.com/worst-social-media-fails-of-the-year-so-far-2013-3?op=1&IR=T

http://www.socialfish.org/2014/03/the-biggest-social-media-scandals-fails-and-blunders-of-2013/

The traditional media outlets on Social Media

In the news this week:

10 things we didn’t know last week….

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-31162029

Pick of the news

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-31183733

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-31173113

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31176748

In other news

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/07/battle-of-drones-amateurs-taking-on-tech-giants

http://www.openstreetmap.org

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/06/apple-watch-update

Conspiracies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_theory

http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/completelist/0,29569,1860871,00.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/3477148/The-greatest-conspiracy-theories-in-history.html

This week

This one is something that’s not going to go away….

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2928097/Kamran-Kam-claims-benefits-9-5-jobs-interfere-fitness-regime.html

Now click on this one

http://voxpoliticalonline.com/2015/01/28/daily-mail-caught-stirring-up-hate-against-benefit-claimants-with-fake-story/

but other news agencies are taking the story and running it too…

http://metro.co.uk/2015/01/28/too-fit-to-work-fitness-fanatic-wont-get-a-job-and-says-we-should-pay-for-his-workouts-5039089/

News this Week 

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/01/21/ukip-nhs-leaks_n_6513394.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/01/23/saudi-king-flags-half-mas_n_6531206.html?utm_hp_ref=uk

http://www.buzzfeed.com/alanwhite/a-lot-of-people-are-flipping-out-over-this-woman-who-claims?bffb&utm_term=4ldqphz#4ldqphz

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-30876360

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30884948

Scandals

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profumo_affair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_scandals_in_the_United_Kingdom

http://www.popsugar.co.uk/celebrity/Scandals-Change-Way-You-Think-About-Royal-Family-36465288#photo-36465288

Here are some useful links for today’s session:

Some News Links:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.html

http://www.mirror.co.uk

http://www.theguardian.com

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk

 What’s in the news this week

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-30796304

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30863024

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30859350

Airbrushing the news…

http://www.chilloutpoint.com/art_and_design/16-famous-photoshopped-images-throughout-history.html

http://www.fourandsix.com/photo-tampering-history/

http://twistedsifter.com/2012/02/famously-doctored-photographs/

http://listverse.com/2007/10/19/top-15-manipulated-photographs/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2257331/Pelosi-defends-photoshopping-faces-historic-group-photo-Democratic-congresswomen.html

Israeli Orthodox Newspaper (this week)

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/01/14/world/israel-newspaper-female-leaders-photo-altered/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-politics/11342250/Charlie-Hebdo-Women-Photoshopped-from-Paris-rally-picture.html

Poll Tax Riot Image

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/dec/19/ros-sare-poll-tax-protest-london-1990

https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2010/04/01/the-poll-tax-riots/