A compilation of summary and slideshare slides on the topic of Social Media Influence on Society and Politics.

1. Social Media Influence on
Society and Politics
TMC6200: Designing Social Networking Sites
Mayuree Srikulwong, PhD
Ramkamhaeng University

2. What accommodate this influence?

4. What

6. It affects E V E R Y T H I N G.
• Everyone's Daily life, Mental Health and Wellbeing
(http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/irespect/social-media-influences-on-children-and-mental-health?
qid=817e55a5-79c9-457c-9b8a-134e51283591&v=qf1&b=&from_search=4 )
• Consumption and Consumer Behavior (http://
www.slideshare.net/mobile/lazerow/how-social-media-influences-consumer-behavior?qid=e9ef857e-6b22-448e-
b15e-f064844dea5a&v=qf1&b=&from_search=1 )
•
Politics(http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/hongliangjie1/a-61-millionperson-experiment-in-social-influence-
and-political?qid=b19835ef-cc36-4487-b6df-83aa1117e91c&v=qf1&b=&from_search=4
http://www.slideshare.net/mobile/ChrisAalberts/do-social-media-change-the-influence-of-citizens?qid=b19835ef-
cc36-4487-b6df-83aa1117e91c&v=qf1&b=&from_search=3
•
Tourism and on and on and on..

7. Analysis of SNSs Effect [Fuchs, 2011]
1. Political Economic Dimension
• Ownership, Censorship, Exclusion, Content
Production
2. Political Communication
• Universal Access, Independence, Quality of
Political Discussion

8. Role of Social Media in
the 2011 Egyptian Protests
Face-to-face 93% Facebook 42% Twitter 13% Blog 12%
[Castells, 2012]
http://ratiojuris.blogspot.com/2011/02/egyptian-revolution-of-2011.html

9. “Social media did not cause the uprisings, it
strengthened them”
[Curran 2012]
http://www.egyptsafari.net/new/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/18-feb.jpg

10. What Else?
The Occupy Movement
(http://www.occupyresearch.net/orgs/)
Wikileaks
(https://www.wikileaks.org/)
Anonymous
(http://www.occupyresearch.net/
orgs/)
Power vs
Counter-Power

12. References
• Fuchs, C. 2014. Social Media: A Critical
Introduction. SAGE Publications Ltd., London.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/