Topic
Social Impact Projects
Instructions
Based on the review of scholary and grey literature, your task is to critically analyze four of the social impact projects facilitated by the use of media and communication technologies. You need to examine the following aspects of the considered projects:
• What are the social needs of the projects?
• Who is impacted by the projects?
• How the impact is made by these projects?
• What are the weaknesses in these projects? And
• Your recomendations to further improve the social impact of the selected projects
Answer preview
Mass media and communication technologies have altered the manner in which individuals relate with one another, as well as the people’s living environment. Digital media for instance, bonds individuals in ways that they never thought possible, allowing users to preserve friendships across distance and time. Furthermore, it allows individuals that are socially isolated or apart from their instantaneous physical society to bond with like-situated or like-minded individuals. Mass media and communication further facilitates interaction across economic, social, political, cultural, ideological, and religious boundaries, permitting for enhanced understanding. Thus, technology integration into the society the social settings, including households, subsequently, technologies have disrupted families in the sense that, families are now individualistic (Greenhow & Lewin, 2016).
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