Books
1) Infinite Ripper - The Social Media Revolution - Author: Glenn Mehta published - self published with Xlibris 2013
Infinite Ripper - The Social Media Revolution is about how social media can be used in a professional and personal life. Away to help business and interact with customs and learning the different slangs and whether you are a already an expert social media user and how it can help you become or successful. Why I chose this book is because it realtes to social media but also for FMP, I am writing a book and also want to self publish it. So if i want to become a self publish author, I need to be updated on anything relating to social media to help sell books.
2) Paranormal Media: Audiences, Spirits, and Magic in Popular Culture - Author: Annette Hill published - Routledge in 2011
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Paranormal Media: Audiences, Spirits, and Magic in Popular Culture is a book that talks about paranormal presented on different media platforms like magazines, tv, social. They talk about how it's used from tv shows like supernatural to reality tv shows like Most haunted but also talking about how most paranormal activity caught is not always cause by spirits.
To me this book both helps and not help the paranormal community through media. Because when it comes to reality shows like most Haunted and Ghost Adventures, there are always chances that something might not be real. Now with Ghost Adventures they do debunk evidence that show it wasn't ghost activity but most are. And another when they say they herd something and we the viewer can't hear anything it makes you wonder if they're just saying it to make out there something there.
News Articles / Journals
New articles
azcentral 'Part of the USA today network' - Link to new's article. Reported by Uriel J. Garcia, Published on 28th Dec 2017 at 5:24PM
The article I link is Azcentral 'Part of the USA Today network'. The article is about a man, who along with his 2 cousins, aunt and grandfather live have been experiencing something supernatural. The man, Calderon turned to social media for help, where he uploaded photos' and video and explained what was happening along with a word that he couldn't understand. Why I choose this article is because I thought it relates to my project, both media and paranormal. It may not answer the question I am asking, but it does show that he used social media as a well to find help form the paranormal community. But it dos show that social media has help the paranormal community, mainly for people who needs help or has question, social media has help by being able to send his plead and having people answering in minutes. Though some might not be useful at least he's getting help from people who believes in the paranormal and want to help.
Journals and a news article
Dear David Storify - Adam Ellis - Started 4 months ago. On twitter - first tweet Aug 7th, 2017
The link is to a series of tweets by a man named Adam Ellis, talking about his life and the haunting he's expressing. I choose this because to me it counts as a Journal on social media - Twitter. The ghost he say's is haunting him is a boy named David. He took this to Social Media show what he's going thought and keeps it updated, like a journal. He has also caught the attention of other and since has more followers and people giving his advise and support. To me, this has brought together a paranormal community and showing that paranormal does exist, basically helping the paranormal community.
Because of social media he is able to show what he's been going through and share with other. More people who see it could start having second thought about the paranormal (positive way) or maybe non-Believers are going to comment something negative.
The link is a news article from The Sun, it relates to the Dear David story. It now appears that dear David might be fake because of the latest post. The fan who follows his tweet is now questioning whether Dear David was at all real. For me, this is relevant because it relates to media and paranormal. This to me has let the paranormal community down a bit because of the latest post and that you can't completely trust what people put on social media, even with the other pictures, video and tweet. Maybe Dear David is real, and he just decided to add the pictures to help more people to follow, but backfired. But after that last post, he continues to update everyone about David. A reality or just a fake gripping story?
With this I don't think it help the paranormal community because it gives another reason why non-believers shouldn't believe when people who say they're being haunted and with picture/video evidence it still shows that it could be staged or faked.
Why this is relevant to my FMP is because I want to write a fiction book on the paranormal and also self-publish it. Being about paranormal I need to know how it's reflexed on social media how it travels around, and if it's still popular and something people still believe in or something they're interested in, if not then books with paranormal themed stories won't be that popular to people who are not believers or not interested. This will help with book sale if it popular around social media and look for paranormal fans and groups.
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