Top-down approaches can be beneficial in order to filter through inappropriate comments online but can also be dangerous because they have the ability to control what comments stay up and delete comments that they do not like
raw and unedited videos posted by those in protests really provide viewers with a sense of reality and real life reactions as opposed to edited and well put together videos
Social media can be very beneficial because it allows for two-way methods of communication between people instead of traditional methods of communication such as TV or radio which is a one-way method of communication
Social media can help you meet people and make friends by joining different online communities, which is funny because parents always used to tell their kids to not talk to strangers online
I find that the Twitter part of the class is most refreshing because it is so different than any other participation method in any other class I've taken