Allegory Of The Cave Vs Social Media Essay - 1779 Words

Did you know that in just three years, the amount of people using social media networks is expected to reach 2.95 billion. That is almost a third of the world’s population. As of 2016, 78 percent of the US population was sharing and tweeting on their social media platforms. Which means 78 percent of our population are living with an impaired perspective of everyday life. In the allegory of the cave, Plato explained what it would be like to experience an impaired perspective of life. So how does the allegory of the cave represent social media today? By using symbolism to show that the real world was not the world of our experience, much like social media outlets perceives in today’s world. Plato in The Republic, described a group of people†¦show more content†¦With all of these media outlets right at our finger tips, we are susceptible to just about any reality we want to dive into. New stories break every day and the scariest part is, it doesn’t have to be true to write about it, or report about it, or tweet about it. These days, anyone with a cell phone can post something on the internet and it will be there forever. First, news of the hack to the Democratic National Committee broke mid-June of 2016. Hackers broke into the servers stealing private emails, campaign correspondence, and opposition research. Then Wiki Leaks got ahold of those emails, made them public and revealed some scandalous situations. In an article written by Jim Sciutto and Pamela Brown called â€Å"Did Russia Hack the Election†, they stated that in October of 2016, the US government publicly announced that it was â€Å"confident† that Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee and other political organizations of the Democratic Party. (Brown) During this time, the news went on a frenzy saying that Russia had hacked the election. After that, it was a snowball effect, reporting it must be true because then President-elect Trump was repeatedly praised by Vladimir Putin, and reports showed financial ties between Trump and Russia, sparking considerable speculation that this is the reason he would not release his tax returns (Fishbein). So not only was the newsShow MoreRelatedMetz Film Language a Semiotics of the Cinema PDF100902 Words   |  316 Pagesconstitute Chapter 5 was first read, and the Festival of the New Cinema (Pesaro, Italy), which organized the round-table discussion during which the last chapter in this volume was originally presented. The idea of bringing together a number of my essays in a single volume, thus making them more easily available, originated with Mikel Dufrenne, Professor at the University of Paris-Nanterre and editor of the series in which this work was published in French. He has my very warm gratitude. C . M. Cannes