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A Social Media Dissection – Tranmere Rovers FC
Social media can be a toxic place, somewhere people can say whatever they want behind the comfort of a keyboard, but does it have a force for good also? Or is it more like Anti-Social Media? I wanted to take a look at social media from the standpoint of a football club, as it’s a there where we find the most diverse of people and posts. For this experiment I chose Tranmere Rovers, for a couple of reasons, first and foremost it’s a team I support myself, but equally because the one of the owners of the football club themselves literally call’s it Anti-Social Media, so they are a prime candidate to look at both sides.
Lets not beat about the bush here, we live in a world now where news isn’t gathered via the family sitting down to watch the 6 o’clock news, or picking up a morning paper, instead news is gathered on social media, a place that over time becomes our news, it’s prescribed news, made up of what you want to read or what algorithms think we want to hear. There was a time not so long ago, where people’s own views on news items were discussions among friends. Opinions were rarely voiced in public, the only time they were was for the fortunate few who managed to get their letter published in the newspapers, or they’d call in to a radio show. Now it’s very different, now we are able to respond to the news instantly, we can say whether we agree or disagree…
