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Impact of Social Media on Society—Analysis and Interpretation

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Since ages, forms of media and technology have endured drastic modification referring to transformation in time, necessities, upgradation of technology, using comfort within one’s means, availability, etc. Media aids in disseminating evidences, sensitizing, and instructing people. Social media is rendered to be the succeeding groundbreaking upheaval in the field of human communication. The research paper studies the influence of social media on the Habits and conducts of the community/public. Study is conducted to check the significance of social media on lives of various sections of populaces, causes for the advancements in social media, professional prospects accessible with this progression in social media, etc. Social media has transformed the standards of understanding, learning, interface, media habit, and usage for individual adults as well as the teenagers. Utilization of social media by businesses and working professionals for advertising, communicating, and networking is also emphasized in this paper. The prospects of latest communication trends have sown its seeds in the form of current social media disruption. With the help of this paper, we purpose to understand and decode the shifting forms of communication by the usage of social media.

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Singh, G., Gaur, L., Anshu, K. (2019). Impact of Social Media on Society—Analysis and Interpretation. In: Kapur, P., Klochkov, Y., Verma, A., Singh, G. (eds) System Performance and Management Analytics. Asset Analytics. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7323-6_29

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