This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of social media, including its history and psychology. The purpose of this project was to create a tool to educate users on the landscape of social media. Our approach to social media analysis included designing a framework, a social media climate survey, the online outreach tool, and user study analyzing the accessibility and comprehension. We successfully built an online tool named SocialSight ( https://socialsight.glitch.me/) that uses the results of our analysis and data visualization. However, this effort is only an early exploration of tools that can provide users with an informed online social media experience, and we outline recommendations for future work.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Flanagan, Carlie
• Munz, Kiara

Subject

• Computing

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-030623-131241
• 91551

Keyword

• Humanity
• Social Media
• Website
• Outreach Tool
• Internet Culture
• Internet

Advisor

• Heineman, George T.

Year

• 2023

Date created

• 2023-03-06

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Computer Science

Source

• E-project-030623-131241

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2023-04-19