Which scenario is an example of social media influencing mainstream media
content?
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a. a teacher calls a television station to tell its reporters about a.
protest at the capitol against low wages; the event receives
widespread television coverage.
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b. a restaurant server uses twitter to promote safer shoes for food
service workers; the hazard she points out is later covered on the
nightly news
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c. a woman uses twitter to start a conversation about the best
restaurants in town, and later adds the information to a guide
she's writing
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d. a man uses a popular photo-sharing site to display his images of a
polluted river, which he photographed after he read a newspaper
article on the pollution.

"A restaurant server uses Twitter to promote safer shoes for food  service workers; the hazard she points out is later covered on the  nightly news" is an example of social media influencing mainstream media  content.

Here, the social medium is Twitter, and the mainstream medium is the nightly news broadcast.

We are told that the server posted on Twitter that safer shoes were needed for people who work the same kind of job as hers. She mentions a particular danger or risk associated with her job, against which safer shoes would be necessary. We then learn that the evening news (probably on TV or the radio) talk about this danger to food service workers. We can assume that the news agency got this information through Twitter, thanks in part to this restaurant server.