A Survey in Reasons & Causes of Informal Media & Social Networks Selection as News Source

Abstract

Nowadays, media has been described as a potentially powerful tool that can affect the control of political, economic, cultural, and social problems in human societies. Users’ media selection is the only way of the media’s survival among plenty of media and social networks. This research referred to most papers about media from 2015 to 2020. Among 300 papers, we evaluated 33 studies suitable for this recent research. Also, the weights and effects of these attributes can be investigated in future researches precisely. These social media contains all kinds of formal and informal media like broadcasting, satellite, TV, radio, etc. So new research has shown informal social software applications such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Telegram, etc that have gotten popular incredibly.

Keywords

• basic theory
• media
• news source
• informal media