Digital Culture Assessment Task

Digital Culture
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Abstract
Digital revolution describes advancement of technology from analog, electronic and
mechanical era to mediums or devices that use digital technology and this period commenced
during 1980’s and is ongoing (Feldman, 1997). This digital culture or information era has
empowered social interaction and has facilitated community connection through media
platforms and Facebook is one such revolutionary new media platform that has changed the
way people connect and share interest. In this discussion details about Facebook and its
founder Mark Zuckerberg is explained along with some useful examples.
Discussion
The digital revolution is most vital event in information dissemination and arguably
represents a bigger transformation in human interaction (Feldman, 1997). One of the new
media channels that presents this power is Facebook which is a social media platform that
encourages to establish community and helps to bring people together and make them
connect with friends, family and others. I find Facebook as inspiring because their social
media products encourage over 2 bn people across the world to share their opinions, provides
them support to create a difference by bringing the world closer. Further through Facebook’s
media channels over 3 bn dollars is raised from community to assist social causes that matters
as well as over 1 bn stories are shared each day helping people within community express and
connect with others. Thus Facebook’s media platform supports people remain close to people
they care for even when afar which is evident from their platform from where over 100 bn
messages are shared each day (Nations, 2019).
The success story of Facebook was written by Mark Zuckerberg who is its founder and he is
specifically inspiring because when people around the world just did not had any scope to
keep in touch with all their friends, then Zuckerberg came with this media platform named
Facebook which has enabled possibility of social network and now Facebook has more than 1
bn active users each month. With Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg changed the way people
connected within the community, however this media platform is not only limited to
communication and acquaintances (Vanderhoof, 2019). Facebook showcases several interest
groups and fan pages that assist to keep the people together through products like Facebook
App which assist to connect communities who share similar interest. These media produces
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