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After reading the text, one can conclude that:
Consumers of news media are more likely to become involved in different issues.
In the great majority of countries, Facebook and Twitter have received more attention than the civil problems.
Barack Obama made the right use of the network digital connectivity in order to win the presidential campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
Although media use influence many people around the world, we don know if it has been capable to definite victory in political campaigns.
Campaigns of close friends in real world are more influential than messages on the Facebook feeds.
The study published in the journal Nature affirms that:
Obama used the results of this study in order to use Facebook and Twitter massively in 2012.
American politicians didn´t start to make use of Facebook in order to change voting patterns.
Facebook helped the 2012 study by giving its analyst data.
60,000 voters didn´t change his vote after reading the messages on Facebook.
Messages on Facebook got 340,000 additional votes in Obama´s campaign in 2012.
About the studies on the effects of social networking sites, it is possible to affirm that:
They were all conducted in the United States.
Researchers had to use 170 different coefficients to get the final conclusion.
The informants had to answer a questionnaire sent by email.
It is hard to conduct such a research because of the amount of themes.
The study focused only on the young people.
We can affirm about the studies on the effects of social networking that:
They have been conducted by scientists.
They were all conducted in Canada.
The results were published just in English.
There were more studies in 2008 than in 2012-2013.
They were done with university students.
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whom
which
whose
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Scholars (first paragraph) may be substituted by:
Students
Trainees
Researchers
Deans
Managers
In the second paragraph we can find an opposite for “close friends with realworld ties” which is:
Casual online acquaintances
Voters
Facebook scientists
Facebook users
Options A and D are correct
According to the text, it is wrong to affirm that:
82% of the participants changed his vote after reading her/his friends Facebook feeds.
One can´t conclude that Obama´s campaign was successful because it used the social media.
It´s not possible to say that the use of media changed people´s participation in the campaign.
The relationship between socialmedia use and civic engagement was found to be strong.
The results of the 2015 research were less valid because researchers used marches, demonstrations, petitions and boycotts.
Why do the SNS studies generally show that “social media plays a positive role in citizens’ participation”?
Because during the interview the informants don´t say the truth.
Because a lot of interviewers use to manipulate the data.
Because researchers include different kinds of activities on protest area.
Because the studies want to influence people to participate more in civil protests.
Because the mass media wants to take control of everything it can.
About the people's interest in using social media, we can say that:
Most people use social media for political reasons.
Most people are interested in civil protests.
No one is interested in electioncampaign.
Researchers couldn´t point the people´s main interest.
Many people´s interest is in gathering donations.