Reading Contemporary Society: Social Media Impact on Health

This study material explores the impact of social media on health in the context of contemporary society. It discusses the psychological and physical health concerns caused by social media addiction, including addiction, stress, emotional connections, and information. The study also analyzes the impact using agenda-setting theory and uses and gratifications theory.

Reading Contemporary
Society

Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Social media impact on health:....................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Reading contemporary society provides the overview of the range that have a social and political
development that are determining in the society. It maintains the relationship as between to the
economy, the states and the society that are getting consider the section that how labour and the
markets and the welfare and the states that are transformation at the period of the time. The
modern civilisation at the moment that are get featured with the great technical requirements and
originations with the longer typical life extents in the individuals at the higher levels of
knowledge and like things as the greater levels of femininity equivalence (CUTTING, 2019).
Technical developments that have also controlled to the concept of globalization and advanced
awareness of global anxieties. Towards the upcoming the features of the civilisation that are
going to change and develop additional or retreat into oblivion as the other contemporary
subjects that are taken over.
Social media impact on health:
Spread of social media is increasing day by day in this world, social media users are 3.96
Billion in this world. It has become a trend for the people to use various social media platforms
like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. However social media has many advantages for people
but it also has several disadvantages related to it. Various Psychological health concerns arises
out due to the use of social media in people. Many children at their young age are also impacted
by social media and its use. In some of the major cases reported by experts, social media causes a
state of severe addiction in children as well as makes them introvert in their life. Various
Psychological disorders are also created by social media in people which makes them mentally
sick in their life. Social media also forms a hypothetical situation in mind of a person that takes a
person far away from the reality. Health impacts caused by social media are very dangerous and
can take a person mentally away from its family members (Healey, 2019). Due to that, there are
various sort of changes in the immigration rules for more influencing manner on travelling to the
European Union or the UK. Virtually that due to Brexit, there is no autonomy of movement as
between the UK and the European Union.

All the settlers that are functioning in the UK that power face various sort of tasks that
are based on the new strategies that will be placed in place. Social media is developing with a
fast speed and is dangerous for various people who are present in society. Social media gives a
psychological impact on the mind of a person which eventually consumes a major time of a
person from daily routine. Social media also creates a feeling of eagerness and restlessness in a
person which generally leads to bring instability in a person's mind. In order to deal with major
health impacts caused by social media, several psychiatrist work hard. It is hard for psychiatrist
to develop major medicines for preventing mental sickness that is caused by social media. In day
to day life, it is hard to stop the impact which is caused by social media. The phrase of the "Me
Too" was initially used in the context of the social media in 2006, on the international website
and social networking service of the Myspace for the sexual harassment survivors and
activist Tarana Burke. The main purpose of the #MeToo that coined by the Tarana Burke in 2006
that are getting the authorize of the women by understanding as especially among the young and
vulnerable manner in the women. In today's digital technology world there is a wide spread of
smartphones which increases the usage of social media. Increasing use of smartphones is a major
threat for youth and children, by using smartphones youth and children involves in social media
usage that causes many health impacts on their mind. Social media in developed countries, has
devastating effects and mainly hits various families. Various mental and health issues are caused
by social media are necessary to be prevented in near future to develop mental state in people
and bring stability.
Ways That Social Media Impacts Your Health
 Addiction to social media – An individuals who are get addicted to social media and
networking app might have been experience more negative side effects like eye strain,
social withdrawal or lack of sleep (Myers, 2019). It is not suitably good in terms for the
person who are continuously using such things on regular basis as effectively and
efficiently.
 Stress – By spending more and more time on researching issues and problems by arguing
with people, who might experience the manner of the stress that can have a negative
impact on their health as effectively.
 Emotional connections – Social media that might help to relate and will also connect
with as many people as can to stay in touch with those with whom they are already

adjacent. By connecting with people that has proven health advantages as effectively in
the management.
 Information – It can find the manner of the large amount of health that are related to
various source of information on the social media. It might be pretty helpful in context to
the health for measuring the manner that will guided for overall safety measures. On the
other hand. It can be taken as in the random manner advice as without doing an adequate
term of the research that can also be harmful in the field of area as effectively.
Social media addiction is termed as the real spectacle (Barton, 2018). As there are various sort of
the people that will carry the manner as around to the smartphones and other devices that are
entitled as they go. It will become more term of tougher to discharge the unit of the internet. As
there are various sort of people progressively maximise spend their online time on the social
media and networking websites like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. For the individuals who
are addicted to these sites that it can have a destructive effect on their lives and also their health.
Such addiction is possibly harmful if it strengths the overall field of the energy as away from
other plan of actions like the work, physical action and offline interactions.
Impact on Physical Health
As the Ebola virus is movable by direct contact with any individual in the manner of the
body fluids like the blood, saliva or faces. To avoid the further diffusion of the virus it is
significant to dodge several sections of the connections that are directly related to the body
contact with any patients in hospital. Rapid patient isolation is consequently and also essential
and important. The virus or the infection does not get spread by the kind of the air or mosquitos .
Social media can straight have an impact on the term of the physical health. It is generally related
with the manner that an individual utilise in their life (Willinsky, 2017). As there are various sort
of impacts that are as follows:
 Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: It cause the issue that have an impact on their hands or
wrists. As there are also various issues that are related with typing on mobile phones that
can pressure user’s fingers.
 Eye problems: It can get eyestrain from staring at mobile screen for too long time.
 Fatigue: This is another symptom of overdoing social media. By staying up too late
posting on Twitter of Facebook it might be losing valued sleep.

 Lack of exercises: Social media might cut into time that can be spending outdoors or
exercising.
 Distraction: It is most unsafe potential significances of social media addiction that is
driving while being distracted.
Use at least 2 media theories to analyse the above in the following:
Agenda-Setting Theory
Under this theory, the issues that receive the most care from media develop the issues that
the public deliberates, debates, and demands act on.
Uses and Gratifications Theory
This theory states that customers use the media to content specific wants or needs.
The digital media or social media are both connected with the strength and the connection
that has the major impact on the mental health of an individuals. UK search is now tremendously
that are subjugated by the accurate source by the Google. The company are making their high set
of profit that makes them dominated in the market with the ratio that presence their power to
reach it as per to the less than 2% of the total sections (Hawng, , Gang, and Lee, 2020). The daily
imitate that will have suffered the quickest fall as almost 900,000 copies in 2015 to just over
500,000 in 2018. Add to this the influence of deep cuts in the social care of the budgets and the
lack of the workforce strategy and the indication points to the NHS crisis that are being very
much of their own making and positive terms. It has been also mentioned that the services at the
local areas are to be get figured as per to the government that has the demand that have the high
efficiency saving that the several providers have the unachievable rate to set the local plan in the
country. A drop of over 40%. Other florid and mid-market broadsheets that have experienced the
greatest circulation that states to declines while the broadsheet press that the exception of the
telegraph that was slightly less and badly affected that will comprises the combined term of the
print and digital reach for the UK’s two major free newspapers and the evening standard that will
socializes in print in London that has reach to the comparable to national newspapers and the
Metro that are owned by the Daily Mail publisher DMG Media and will circulated as across the
transport networks in urban areas in England, Scotland, Wales and many more places.
Agenda Setting Theory
Agenda setting theory will termed as the theory of the various sort of the skills and the ability of
the news media to attract the key manner in the manner of the topics on the public agenda in the

issue (Delgado, and et.al., 2018). As it is mentioned that the manner of the issue that will follows
the certain mode of criteria that distinguish the manner if it will relates to the news item or
another cover manner that are frequently related to it. The audience that will regard the problem
and the issue as that are more essential or not but it will deliver the fact and the figures to it in an
eventual manner. In reality, mass media only shows the visitors or viewer that what it exclusive
and what is important problem. The Print or broadcast news that will then take away the
audience’s ability to think as per to them in an efficient manner by the mass media sections.
Mass communication plays an essential role of manner in the society. It have the main and basic
role is the purpose is to inform the public as about the present section and past events that are
related to it. Mass communication is termed as the basic orientation features in Mass Media and
in the Mass Culture to keep it as the procedure in which the details will be sectioned as the
professional communicators that will use in the technological devices to share content of the
message as over to the great distances to attract large number of the audiences. In the procedure,
of the media in the newspaper, book, television program, etc. it controls the manner to take the
effective deal of the information that the audience will see or get hear. The media then uses the
role of the gatekeeping and set their manner of the agenda setting to control the holder access to
news, information, and entertainment sources as effectively (Beteille, 2020. Gatekeeping is the
term of series in the checkpoints that the news or information that has to go as before to it gets to
the public. In this procedure in as many of the people that have the serious note to decide the
output of the news and its effect that related to its sections that is to be seen or got heard. Some
porters will involves the manner of the reporters, writers and editors. As the gatekeeping
maintain their deal with fair role of agenda setting in the mass media sector for more effective
output. One of the most critical aspects in the concept of an agenda setting role of mass
communication is the given time frame for this wonder. In context to the mass media structure
there are various sort of the media actions and activities that have various role in the agenda
setting potential for the audience.
Digital social media platforms will help the audience and the viewer for getting the right and
accurate source of information by their post and also by sharing it. As per to it the other viewers
or audience will also get aware or attract for such actions and activities. As it is helpful for the
audience in extra awareness and promotion of the content with an exclusive sources by which
fair deal will be phrased for more ethical issues in the orientation of the field. As also, the digital

source of the media channels will get the help in creating more effective sources of social media
with appropriate manner that will help them in cumulative of their likes and notes in the role of
the audiences and their field of area (Popper, 2020). If there are more likes and notes then that
there post will becomes more famous and consumers get attract from their source of information
or data by their posts and updates. Social media platforms also agree to the management to make
posters of their products by various promotional campaigns for their viewer and audience as
effectively.
It is an important manner of the digital marketing that are phrased in the field of the area
of social marketing. As all the customers that have being over social media to attract the
customers for more easy terms for the market field of the area that have to use social media
channels at various sort of the levels for more effective sections. It have an impact on the viewers
and audience as even more. As there are several manner of channels that comes in the social
media and digital media marketing like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, Pinterest and etc. By
choosing the right field of the area getting the things right and get success of the management
that depends on the digital marketing plan of activities that are used by them. In context to the
market and their social media impact, most of the external term of arrangements will get
practices in the modern equipment and techniques or methods to attract their viewers and
audience that will help them as effectively. The audience and viewers will uses Facebook,
Twitter for more source of information by which their consumer can enhance the productivity
and profitability as effectively. By choosing an adequate manner that will also have being over
various social media channels. Social media marketing by digitally is an essential section of
orientation for the audience and viewer in respect to increase the manner of the social media
impact as effectively.

CONCLUSION
From the above report it has been concluded that, it makes methods of social structure to
make the central emphasis for the framework of social issues. As it has been mentioned that
there are various ways of involving in studying social structures that might be treated them as it
makes and form the knowledge, ideologies or discourses that might be difficult to continue as
without learning them. Likewise, it is essential to finish this sequence with the warning opinions.
The first apprehensions that the delicacy of social structures. The second apprehensions as the
association to set in between to the social constructionism and policy.

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