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The use of major media platforms greatly expands how popular media spreads do to the fact that the information being spread is accessible to more people, meaning its chance of influencing those people dramatically increases. Furthermore, with technology such as smart phones, televisions and computers, popular media is easily accessible anytime, anywhere for most people.
The spread of popular media like Facebook help to connect people all over the globe on a singular social media platform. The benefits of this lie in the fact that networking and business are significantly easier as a result of such platforms.
Popular culture tends to originate from Stage 3 and 4 countries, with established social norms, and a complex cultural structure. Furthermore, these countries also have the benefit of access to technology, helping to spread popular culture and share it with the world.

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3. With today's globally connected world, the creation and spread of cultural media is more frequent than ever. However, more countries are more likely to be the sources of popular media than others. Stage 4 countries such as the United States and parts of Western and Southern Europe have in the past been sources of the creation of social media such as Instagram and Soundcloud. The media then diffuses to Stage 3 countries in South America and Eastern Asia for example, and as the media becomes more and more popular over time, than the media finds its way to countries that have very little technological connectivity in comparison to Stage 4 countries. Exceptions can arise as certain countries that are quite technologically advanced and are in Stage 3(China and Russia) will intentionally prevent the spread of media such as Instagram in order to sensor information within a society. Lastly, the media may end up in a Stage 2 country in Northern Africa for example but there is also a chance it might not.

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1. I have observed that Facebook has diffused almost entirely through the contents of North America, Latin America, and Australia. I also notice that there is no Facebook presence in China or Russia at all, which can be explained due to those countries' communistic government and their regulation of their own censored social media. Furthermore, with the presence of social media such as Facebook, people from all over the world can instantaneously  communicate with each other with no international fees like there is on telephones. This makes communication way more widely accessible and feasible, creating a "smaller world" in a sense.

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TV, Internet and social media develop an interconnected network, making the process of instantaneously diffusing information in popular media effortless. Through television, a wide variety of people, whom may not have access to cell phones or social networks, are exposed to the many current events occurring in the world. This is done primarily through news stations. The Internet, on the other hand, serves as a connected medium, interconnecting everyone's thoughts, perspectives, and current events. Similar to the internet, the most important aspect of social media is the instantaneous autonomy of the users. Every person or group of people has equal power to distribute their thoughts and opinions through these mediums, unlike the TV where only certain people are able to voice their ideas. Occurring in more developed Stage 4 countries, with the most access to popular media, the information received in these developed countries can trickle down to less developed countries. Thus, furthering the process of information diffusion.

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1. Facebook is the most popular form of technology because of its easy access to everybody worldwide. Also it uses contagious diffusion because when one person sees that half of the world is using this social media site, they also want to try it out. Facebook, as well as all other forms of popular media, are best spread when large groups of other people are using it.

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3. Popular culture seems to develop in areas that are connected throughout the world. They use the same forms of social media that connect  them , mainly Facebook, and allow each other to see what they are doing. These ideas then spread slowly to countries that use various other forms of socia media later.

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1. The spread of popular media, particularly social media, can be seen in almost every stage 3 and 4 country. Facebook seems to be the choice of the masses compared to other outlets, but still has competition. Facebook is not popular in Sub-Saharan Africa, but is still popular enough that it has a good amount of countries that use it in each continent.

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Question 3: I think that popular culture and popular media start in stage 4 countries where the countries are completely developed. Then the media and culture would spread to neighboring countries where the ideas are easily spread. After spreading to nearby countries, I believe it would spread to countries with similar practices, cultures, or languages Finally, I would then think that the ideas would be spread to countries in the lower stages of the demographic transition who weren't initially able to attain the particular media source because of their lack of resources in comparison to more developed countries.

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1. Facebook and other social media sites have spread to almost every developed part of the world. There are still places like parts of Africa that social media sites have not spread to because they are not as developed and do not have the resources to accesses them.

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a. Economically developed areas, specifically stage 4 countries.
b. Nearby countries.
c. Countries that speak the same language(s).
d. Spreads to lower stage countries that have access to the internet.

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I think popular media sights such as Facebook have a massive affect on the spread of ideas, news, and culture because of how widely used it is. Nearly one billion people are on Facebook which gives it the ability to show something to an extremely large amount of people at once. It can create conversation and puts ideas out into the world fast.

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The Tv, internet, and social media can spread the idea of popular media because it diffuses throughout the country extremely fast through various diffusion like hierarchical diffusion. Because of modern technology it has let the world communicate various news, ideas, etc at a much faster rate, thus playing a role in the spread of popular media.

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2. Many technological forms of communication such as Internet, Radio, and Television can play vital roles in the spread of popular media because all of these forms of communication are instantaneous. Meaning that these ideas can be shared instantly around the world through these many forms of communication. Majority of the earths population has access to at least one of these forms of communication, therefore making it easier to inform a wide majority of the earths population.

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1. Facebook has diffused especially through developed countries. Popular culture origin hubs, cities like New York, LA, Paris, London, Tokyo, Madrid, Milan, and Sydney, are in in countries that use Facebook. Countries that are susceptible to popular culture and follow it, like those in Northern Africa and South America follow the popular culture of these countries. Countries with more established folk cultures, like China, Russia, and Iran, have modes of socialization that are more specific to their culture.

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3. Popular culture and media originate in stage 4 countries. These countries are usually more developed. Then they most likely travel to Stage 3 or surrounding countries, especially ones with similar culture or dialect. There is a chance that popular culture and media ends up in Stage 2 countries, however, the ideas are usually changed or modified from the origin due to the time it takes to reach the country and the way it is presented.

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2. Through TV, internet, and social media, popular media is able to spread rapidly and with ease due to communication between people becoming easier and easier, regardless of distance. This allows ideas to be spread very quickly and eventually become a part in many different cultures.

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2. TV, internet, and social media all play crucial roles in the spread of social media because they all are used to spread ideas, through news, even though some of them have bias which can create controversy. But it is all important because the ideas aren't necessarily agreed on so you are able to get different perspectives on the same points, compared to in the past where your local news could have reported what they believe, and that is the only information you would have received. Most popular media nowadays is run through social media or the internet, and TV, meaning that is where people get their opinions and ideas from.

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TV, internet, and social media all play important roles in the spread of popular media.  Many people in the world have access to social media, TV, and internet and spend time looking at one or the other each day.  If you share information on these three sites, you are able to get the important news you want out into the world. Communication of news diffuses faster and easier through internet, social media, and TV.

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3. Popular culture originates in primarily stage 4 Countries. One example is the US. Most trends originate in the US and diffuse to countries that are in other stages of the demographic transition

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How might TV, the internet, and social media play roles in the spread of popular media?

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How might TV, the internet, and social media play roles in the spread of popular media?

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What
observations can you make about the spread of popular media, particularly
Facebook?

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What
observations can you make about the spread of popular media, particularly
Facebook?

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Which  countries do you think popular culture and popular media originate in (think stages)?

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Which  countries do you think popular culture and popular media originate in (think stages)?

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