Twitter Effect

"According to the Pew Research Center, 62% of U.S. adults get their news on social media." (Ott, 2017) What this means is that the audience can choose the base that they want to gather news from and receive a one-sided view of the news.
In the opinion of Ott, "Twitter infects public discourse like a social cancer." (Ott, 2017) This can be true with many platforms of new media as the proliferation of media is exponential with new technology.

An audience can choose who they get their news from, "technology has empowered audiences to take control of conversations and the messaging directed at them." (Hall, 2017) This has shaped how our culture is collecting and sharing the news.  One must not always trust what the see on new media as it may not be a full and complete picture of the entire landscape.

References

Hall, J. (2017). From TV to Digital Media: How Technology Changes Content Development. Forbes. Retrieved from

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnhall/2017/03/07/from-tv-to-digital-media-how-technology-changes-content-development/#24702846517a

Ott, B. (2017). The Age of Twitter: Donald J. Trump and the Politics of Debasement. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 34(1), 59–68. Retrieved from https://doi-org.ezproxy.snhu.edu/10.1080/15295036.2016.1266686

Kurfe, S. Unsplash image retrieved from https://unsplash.com/photos/6lcT2kRPvnI