TOW #14-Is Instagram Changing the World?

There was recently an article posted about how the commonly known app called Instagram has changed society. CNN is known for posting articles that show how social media effects society in positive and negative ways, so this specific article was nothing out of the ordinary. The article is called “Five Years On: Untangling Instagram’s Growing Web of Influence” and was written by Tom Jenkins. The author is a freelance journalist who focuses primarily on food, music, fashion, art and design, all topics that were mentioned in the article about Instagram. By focusing on different parts of the Instagram world, and providing pictures to back up his claims, he can easily and successfully explain the many ways that Instagram is changing the world.

Jenkins splits the article up into sections in which he easily separates how Instagram has changed the world. The sections are fashion, art, travel, food, fame and activism. Each section comes equipped with a screenshot of a post that supports the claim he makes in the topic. For example, in the travel section he speaks about how one man “quit his job as an IT Consultant for IBM and is now one of the most popular photographers on Instagram.” He inserting one of his photos that he posted on Instagram of a lake that he went kayaking in which shows how beautiful our world really is. He also shows another side of how Instagram has changed traveling by stating that “a platform like Instagram is giving people a glimpse into other worlds, cultures, and topics.” Not only can people enjoy these beautiful places through a phone screen, but since they have the ability to find the destination they can also go and travel there to see the places themselves. Overall, Jenkins successfully showed the positive ways that Instagram has changed the world by focusing on multiple areas and providing screenshots to back up his claim.