: Using your sociological imagination and an example (see below), summarize (in writing or recorded message) how you think social media is shaping culture.

For this discussion, however, we’re going to look at the role social media plays in shaping culture–the role it plays in shaping customs/traditions, norms, knowledge, ideologies, values, symbols, and/or language.

To provide some context, you’ll could address how the three levels of society factor into the ways in which social media can shape these components, which will require analyzing how individuals,

institutions, and of course culture, might be shaped by social media.

Using your sociological imagination and an example (see below), summarize (in writing)how you think social media is shaping culture.

In your post, reference at least one example of a story, issue, controversy, debate, news cycle, trend, etc. that recently transmitted, or went “viral” (or is currently transmitting or “viral”) on at least one popular social media platform (e.g., Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, Tik Tok, Reddit, LinkedIn, Snap Chat, Pinterest, etc.).