Social media a source of news and tools to generate awareness on various issues

Abstract

Today, we live in a time, when all information is just a few seconds away from us. We are eager to know many things at a time and that’s the reason, today we have social media. It makes our life so easy and evolving platform for people who want to communicate, express and share content and news stories at a faster speed. Social media has grown enormously at an unexpectedly fast rate and has captured millions of users worldwide. It has affected our mind and different aspects of our life like social, cultural, political, economical etc. and also influence our thinking and feelings. It disseminates information, knowledge and created awareness among people on different issues. This digital information age gives us more breaking news than ever before. In this research paper, an extensive review of the literature has been carried on to analyze and to get an effective understanding of the impact of social media as a source of news. This study will reveal how people use social networking sites, as a source of news to generate awareness among masses