Mass Media

Types of content

Discussion/Comments

Bad News

Entertainment/Lifestyle

Magnifying the bad in others

SG: Sylvia Chan toxic work culture
Global: Amber Heard lawsuit, K-pop star Koo Woo Jin's sexual assault allegations

Social commentary

Mediums such as instagram wakeupsingapore

Propelling empathetic efforts

SG: Kalwant Singh, a convicted Malaysian drug trafficker, was hanged despite being willing to give information to the police

Provides realistic expectations

Global: Covid reports

Global: Donating to developing countries, Ukraine

Social commentary

Losing the ability to think for themselves

Unfairly damage the reputation of a person or community

Global: Facebook using algorithms -> Echo chambers

SG: LGBTQ survey sparked over 30000 responses
Global: #Oscarsowhite
channel that eats pig in 100 days

While there are those who does not understand SG's crime system, but SG does have measures to showcase their crime system eg Crimewatch

SG: Amos Yee mocking Lee Kuan Yew
Global: Trump racist tweets

But celebrities can also stand up for these social causes eg

Falsehoods

Promotes freedom

Global: Shanghai residents bypassing censorship to document their experiences of poor conditions in quarantine

Radical views

SG: Reddit teenager arrested for plotting Mosque attack

Advertisements

Improper

Educational roles

Misleading

Global: misleading cigarette advertisement in Bangladesh that claims its good

Adverse effect on self confidence

Global: Ads of slim women encouraging unhealthy eating habits

Global: Grammarly ads

Local: Dennis Chew brown-facing
Global: Dove racist ad about black woman turning into a white woman, evaluation: actually cares, did not mean it

K-pop star Koo Woo Jin
2016 US election fake news eg Hillary supports ISIS

Mindlessly following the fads

Tosh Zhang

Following harmful options

Blackout challenge where people try to make themselves faint
Fast fashion brands like Zara and SHEIN which advertise themselves on social media platforms (based on the algorithm)
Greenwashing!!!

Following in order to stay relevant or be popular

Town in Austria called Hallstatt got overrun by visitors after it was shown in instagram posts, visitors disturbed the peace there