Communicative Influence of Social Media Apps Analysis

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Choose a social media app to analyze.

  1. Write 750-1,000 words.
  2. Explain important historical context surrounding the creation of the app (i.e., how and why was it created?).
  3. Explain the key communication features of the app (i.e., how is it used?). Be detailed, giving examples and/or screen shots – if available to you – to aid in your explanation.
  4. Use media theories/theorists to help you argue for what impact this app has on users’ communication behaviors (i.e., how does this app change users’ communication motives, purpose, style, choices).
  5. A minimum of one academic source is required.

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Running head: SOCIAL MEDIA

Social Media
Student’s Name
Institution
Date

SOCIAL MEDIA

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Explain important historical context surrounding the creation of the app (i.e., how and why
was it created?
The internet was established in the late '60s to early '70s with the private sector and the
public organization when they saw it needful to use computers to pass information to people
through networks. The infant years if the internet began with Bulletin Board system BBS, this
was an online meetings place for people communicating where they would post messages and
download games and documents. It helped bridge the gap between people and increase
communication making even the antisocial become social people.
Mark Zuckerberg created the Facebook app while he was studying Psychology at the
University of Harvard. He created the app together with his two other friends in February 2004.
The name Facebook originated from the sheets of papers that were issued to first year students; it
was used to profile students and other staff (Wagner, 2014). Within the first 24hrs of its launch,
Facebook made 1200 profiles on the campus, and in thirty days about half of the undergraduate
students had a profile on Facebook.
Zuckerberg would not give...


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