Growing anger will lead to a spiralling of violence and with that comes a spike in consumption of such social media. A cursory look at social media channels from Facebook and Twitter to YouTube and WhatsApp shows that real-life violent videos are being filmed, uploaded and viewed with alarming regularity. Growing anger will lead to a spiralling of violence and with that comes a spike in consumption of such social media. But what is alarming is that this widespread consumption is leading to a normalisation of violence. Baudrillard’s theory extended to the power of television some decades ago, but his theory is certainly valid for social media too.

Source: dna July 04, 2017 02:37 UTC