Benefits and risks of social media newsgathering. An exploratory study
Benefits and risks of social media newsgathering. An exploratory study

Summary/Abstract: The postmodern society is characterized, among other things, by the consumerist paradigm. Of course, the consumerism should not be understood only in the proper sense of irrational excessive consume of goods, but rather we should pay a proper attention to how people, surrounded by an enormous amount of information, choose to select it to rely on the most dependable sources. More than that, sorting and selecting the sources from which we get information has become an extremely important skill, especially in the context where social networks, form the point of view of their use, have a hegemony especially among young people (Olubunmi, 2015). In this paper our aim is to highlight the extent to which young students use the most popular social networks to collect daily information about politics. Thus, the target group will be represented by students from the bachelor's and master's degree cycles of the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University from Iași. Equally, following the analysis of the scientific literature, but also of the opinions of the respondents, we will create an inventory with the greatest benefits, but also the most important risks that appear when we use social networks to collect information.

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