My Research Proposal

This is my research paper proposal for New Media and Business class.

I may want to add some other materials in my paper, so I am keep researching. 

I have three positive and three negative points in terms of Social Media so far.

In my research paper, I would like to explore how social media influence people in both positive and negative ways. Social media is a helpful tool because of its convenience. Social media make us easier to connect with people globally. It helps us a lot of people such as a person who seeks a job, a group of people who have the same interests, or a company which have an online meeting with their coworkers in different countries. Many companies also tend to use social media to advertise themselves. Moreover, social media spread real-time information immediately. This helps us to know quickly what the world is going on now. We know many positive elements about social media. However, they cannot ignore some negative elements because these may hurt us sometime. For example, social media makes anyone possible to share information. However, its element can cause of increasing false and unreliable information online. Since there is no way to prove what information is wrong, other people may believe wrong information. It increases people’s stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. A hacker may invade our personal spaces and steals our private information such as our bank and e-mail accounts. We may also lack our concentrations to work on our tasks because we are addicted to social media. In this paper, I am focusing on three positive elements which are global connectivity, business strategy, and immediate sharing information and three negative elements which are unreliable information, invasion of privacy, and addiction to social media.