Question

1. choose at least two topics and two theories about online communication you find interesting and Look at how those topics could relate to one another. (A Venn diagram could help you.)   Decide on the topic and theory you want to focus on. Decide on a research question based on your chosen topic(s) and theory.

Reflection

What is your research question?

How are this topic(s) and theory related to one another? Explain in one short paragraph.

How do you plan to find information for your topic? Explain in one short paragraph.

Answer 1

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Online communication

Online communication has become extremely popular and prevalent in the current society. Not only it helps to connect the world it also helps in various other things in our day to day lives. In now a days, almost everyone indulge in some for of online communication be it for personal communication, business or news. Social media has become one of the most important and time consuming part of one’s lives.

1st q.

Topics covering on online communications are:

1. Online communication boon or curse
2. Privacy concern about the data we put online

2nd qs.

1. Online communication boon or bane:

Online communication has changed the communication industry completely. Social media is the most famous and most used form of online communication. Now a days an average person spends almost 25% of his/her day on social media. It has been a revolutionary technological addition to the modern world. But as they say every coin has two sides, so does social media. Since social media is getting popular day by day and millions of people use it around the world, and share their lives, opinions on this platform. It has become very easy for cyber criminals and hackers to exploit this information. Also, since everyone can post their opinions online, these also has created a lot of disagreements and chaos in the past. But, in the same time, social media has also helped people to become more aware and self sufficient. We all know how the famous “me too” movement has helped expose so many people in higher position , which would have been impossible without social media. So, I feel social media is a boon to the society and

If used widely can be very helpful.

2. Though Online communication is a great way to connect to the world, it raises some privacy concern, since everything we do online, no matter how protected it is, the data is always available for cyber criminals and hackers to exploit. Not only hackers, also in many cases the very company possessing our personal data may share it with third party for study of data or any other reason. The Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal was a major political scandal in early 2018 when it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica had harvested the personal data of millions of people's Facebook profiles without their consent and used it for political advertising purposes. Almost everyone today, surely has an account on facebook, so if a billion dollar company like facebook cannot protect our data than we it is surely a major concern and as users, one should always be careful about the information you are putting out online because once on internet always stays on internet

3rd q.

I will use the statistics available on internet to find indepth information about theses topics. there has been many surveys and studies already done on these topics so I am hoping to use those resources online and also since I am also a user of social media I will use my experience on it and I will take my friend's help to make a survey of myself on these topics.