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Diego Carvajal
Pathway 2
Adam Tward
October 2020
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Nowadays social media has been a way that people can find new information, share and create
new concepts, a simple definition is useful to communication. This “phenomenon” has made that
people start interested in looking up new ideas and developing these ideas in their ideologies or
in their life. On other way, some people became interested in looking up old ideas or ideologies
that impacted the world in their moment. That is how some political and social tendencies cause
movements or ideologies are showing again, such as the confederate ideas in the U.S.A, Nazim,
anarchism. In other cases, this situation has led to more and more people interested in the old
political ideas, and star recover concepts and invite other people to join their cases. However,
some of the old tendencies that have been showing up again has a good impact in the society,
such as ecological movements or anti-globalization movements. The internet and social media
have not only had returned some political tendencies and movements, but also, have allowed to
used social media in order to expand these new parties or groups based in old tendencies, and at
the same time, using fake tools in function of transmit the message of this old political
movements or tendencies, in most of the cases promoting by using fake news. In consequences
of that exist a strong relation between social media and this new interest in old political
tendencies.
Therefore, in first place is essential explain how the social media made people start think
different and start following others ideologies than the normal ones. Some experts agree that the
principal way that social media is use to bring together people with the same way of think or to
convince people to think different by transmitting a popular and convincing message that makes
people feel attractive. In this case, some experts called this tendency an “echo chambers”. An
echo chamber makes people start transmitting only information the agree with,
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and rapidly as possible the social media can allow. This echo chambers also makes that people
believe in the information because they are not exposed to differing opinions or expert opinions.
However, in the composition they say that they are writing for experts and trustworthy people.
Although, its indispensable people take the time to verify the information, they read this thing
almost never happens. Then the bad information continues to be shared by people whether it is
true or false. A perfect example of “echo chambers” is the polarization that result from the past
United States election. As the majority of people know, disinformation and social media had an
important part of the past elections. However, the candidates also made “echo cambers” as the
principal tool of convince people to vote for them. Experts explain what happened in this way
“Social media sites are often blamed for exacerbating political polarization by creating echo
chambers that prevent people form being exposed to information that contradicts their pre
In this case, the perfect way to convince people to believe in old political tendencies was be
creating “echo cambers”. An perfect example of how social media has an important part in the
return of old political tendencies is how the segregation of ideas started increasing again in
U.S.A. Experts affirm that “The possibility that the Internet may be increasing ideological
segregation has been articulated forcefully by Sunstein (2001): “Our communications market is
rapidly moving” toward a situation where “people restrict themselves to their own points of
that, on social media people espoused any information that they want, but in most of the cases
they don’t care whether this information has a negative or on the society, and the old tendencies
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that were supposed disappear used social media as a tool to come back and to impact a large
number of persons. No cared about the veracity of the information and wants to look up for new
In other cases, social media played a role in the return of other political tendencies around the
world. This is the case in the “Nationalism”. This tendency has had a huge effects on history as
the principal idea of the Roman Empire, Napoleon ideology and the Nazi Party. In the end of the
last century, this tendency was disappeared from political speech, but always a small part of
population around the world has always maintained that this ideology is good and attractive to
follow it. Therefore, when social media start gaining traction in society, the people that keep
following the Nationalism starts shared information and invite other people to follow these ideas
again, using any fake or true information that make this ideology attractive. In most cases,
nationalism parties or groups used different tools in social media to share information, such as
Bots, fake URLs and Junk news. At the same time, the truth information has been accepted by
most of the people that like and are interested in nationalism. In this case, an investigation at Pais
Vasco University in Barcelona, expressing on this idea, “As we have said before, besides, the
social and political privatisation influences strongly, mainly on young people and in urban
areas, weaking the nationalist sociability nets and turning the symbolic premises of conflict into
others that are more pragmatic and realistic.”. [ CITATION Jos98 \l 4105 ] This statement explains
how this old political tendency is attractive to the young people and how Social Media contribute
In conclusion, social media has an important effects in the way that the people think, not only in
the facility of to finding to attractive and interesting information, but also, it is perfect way for
people to advocate for returning to a good or bad political tendency. In this case, the principal
effect is how these people is sharing information and finding people that like old political
tendencies without caring about if the information is true or false, and it is impact in society.
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