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What happened earlier this decade re: Facebook and Google, concerning the sending of
traffic to websites? -Answer Traffic from homepages of media has fallen significantly
while social medias share of clicks has more than doubled. In the past, facebook and
google were equal powers in sending clicks to Buzzfeed news sites, but now facebook
sends 3.5X more traffic.
What are "evergreen" stories? - Answer What journalists consider stories about diets,
millennials, coffee, happiness, and beautiful pictures; not news related stories
What does the article conclude about news vs. entertainment in the BuzzFeed top 20
most viral stories? - Answer The vast majority aren't real news. Few are recent events
and few are national news stories. The majority are entertainment, not news
The last page of the article makes the point that what's happening now is not new.
Specifically, what is the author's claim? - Answer The author points out a book in 1992
that discusses that this is not a new event: voters collect information but forget where
the information comes from. "Fast thinking" means that we pick up information
throughout our lives but forget where it comes from. What he is saying here is that
social media creates an avenue where spreading false information and manipulating
voters is very easy because people read and digest information from "friends" or
"followers" and mix those ideas with ideas from actual news.
What does the author site as "key difference between the old forms of news and
entertainment and Facebook? - Answer The news feed is entirely our creation.
Facebook doesn't "make" our newsfeed. The friends and pages we follow contribute to
every story, and Facebook organizes them by studying our past behaviors to predict
what stories should appear at the top. Since you choose your friends and your
interactions to your friends posts, you essentially build your own news feed,
What are the 3 major claims of the article-the 3 suggestions for using social media? -
, Answer Re: Claim #1: more and more people rely on social media for news and
information
Despite its growing popularity, it is yet uncertain whether social media has had an
impact on political participation
Gathering political information via social media brings increased risk of ingesting
information from questionable sources
How did people ages 18-29 differ from those 30-49 in their thoughts about political
campaign news? - Answer People ages 18-29 said that social media was the most
helpful source for news about a presidential election. People 30-49 said social media
ranked third, behind cable TV and news websites.
How are older Americans different? - Answer Adults ages 18-49 trust news and political
information shared by friends more than news delivered from other sources. Social
media is less utilized among voter 50 and older, who depend primarily on TV and other
traditional news outlets to learn about elections.
What does the article suggest about the relationship of news via social media and voter
turnout? - Answer Youth turnout is lower, and turnout increases with age
What does the article suggest about social pressure via social media and voting? -
Answer Social pressure via social media encourages others to vote
What is the point here about voters knowledge of sources of political information? -
Answer Voters gather information but forget whence it originates. Bits and pieces of
information are retained, sources are not remembered
Read the abstract carefully a couple of times--it contains the gist of the article. - Answer
The differences model, which states that males and females are fundamentally different
psychologically reigns supreme in the popular media. In contrast, the author here
presents a very different perspective-the gender similarities hypothesis-which states
that males and females are similar on most, but not all, psychological variables. Results
of a review of 46 meta-analytical sets support the gender similarities hypothesis.
Gender differences can vary substantially in magnitude at different ages and depend on
the context in which measurement occurs. Such overinflated claims of gender
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