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Introduction
Social media provide opportunities which people show and discuss
individual opinions via the Internet, and it sometimes gives enormous
impact to political like the Arab spring. Therefore, the thinking which social
media might be hope for people who are under a terrible situation is
increasing. However, problems especially political problems are not simple,
and leaders in states also know better than to leave own nations
conversations on social media completely (Morozov, 2011). On this essay,
social media for nations and authorities, present conditions of social media
in North Korea and China are discussed.
Conclusion
Social media bring us opportunities which bid against authorities and lead
own society to liberal. On the other hand, authorities also use social media
to manipulate own nations. In addition, non-democratic countries such as
China and North Korea already know how to manage social media and the
Internet and adopt in own country respectively. Social media might
shorten the distance between government and nations, and it may mean
that the amount and kind of information increase rather than that nation
gain power which are able to defeat governments at will. Therefore, what
people can do is collecting and providing information from social media
under the controlling of government. However, there is some people who
misunderstand that social media is an invincible trump to defeat
authorities. The work of social media in Iran and the Arab Spring tend to be
appraised positively, and social media might be crucial in the movements.
However, excessively expects to social media is a risk because they are not
almighty but just a hub of information and people are also influenced by
enormous uncertain information from there at the same time, and
authorities can find seditious people via social media. Therefore, social
media are not a competent tool to challenge any authorities which include
non-democratic countries.
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