Social Media Within Australia
We are now in the Digital Generation, which means most of people keep their communication things through the social media. In 2014, 42% of Australians using Facebook in Australia. (International journal for Equity help, 2016, p.3) For these reason everyone get to use their own digital devices such as smart mobile phones, laptops, computers which help them to accesses their social media easily and frequently. Digital device is the distance between those who have accesses to digital device and internet and to those who do not. According to the journal young adults and teenagers are more likely to use social media than older sector of the population. (International journal for Equity help, 2016, p.2)
Young people having mobile phones with cameras and web browsers which has expanded the opportunities to create media recordings and share information through social media such as Facebook, twitter, Instagram, etc. It also provides the young adults to feel some sense of power and control over their own identities. (International journal for Equity help, 2016, p.10)
There is some disadvantage for indigenous young people in Australia especially in education, child safety and criminal system. For the advantages, indigenous young people in Australia still using symbols to text messaging. This is the way they develop their culture, a strong sense of community to globalized world of young culture.
(International journal for Equity help, 2016, p.2)
Rousse, M (n.d.), is a term referring to the different between population and regions with access to modern data and none-restricted access. Such as telephone and computers.
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Rice, ES, Haynes, E, Royce, P and Thompson, SC 2016, ‘Social media and digital technology use among Indigenous young people in Australia: a literature review’,International Journal for Equity in Health, vol. 15, pp. 1-16.
Rouse, M n.d., ‘digital divide’, whatis.com, retrieved 3 December 2019, <https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/digital-divide>
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