We are often told that social media are about us, that they are a personal media. But what does this actually mean? How do social media differ from traditional media in their forms of authorship?

There is no titles or sub titles needed for this essay it is just a regular essay format and no images or charts please -please have a thesis statement at the intoduction paragraph -our professors want us to use a couple of these sources troughout the essay as we have covered them in class so I am pasting them here. ( I don’t know all of them so you can use the most suitable ones) + some other sources based on other research and please make sure to answer the essay question very clearly troughout the essay because this is also where I lose the most points from. Christian Fuchs (2014) Chapter 2 (What is social media?) in Social Media: A Critical Introduction. London and Thousand Oaks: SAGE, pp. 31-50. Christian Fuchs (2014) Chapter 3 (Social Media as Participatory Culture) in Social Media: A Critical Introduction. London and Thousand Oaks: SAGE, pp. 52-57. Howard Rheingold (2000) Chapter 11 (Rethinking virtual communities) in The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the electronic frontier, revised edition. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, pp. 323-392. Malcolm P. Parks (2010) ‘Social Networks Sites as Virtual Communities’ in Z. Papacharissi (ed.) (2010) A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites. London and New York: Routledge, pp. 105-123.
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