Growing Trend of Social Media: It’s Impact on a Democratic Society
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https://doi.org/10.48165/tjmitm.2024.15.08Keywords:
Social Media, Democracy, Interactive, Glob al AudienceAbstract
With the emergence and wide scale adaptation of social media as a means for mass communication, our world has transformed into a digital globe with almost no geographical or cultural barriers. This paper aims at evaluating the impact caused by social media in a democratic society, determining the extent of the impact and assessing its effectiveness over traditional methods of mass communication by analyzing and interpreting the pre existing records on this subject.References
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