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Google are an influential institution, they are a big media institution on the internet. They are a massive institution which account for a great number of people who visit their site. Google are one of the or if not the best search provider therefore this is the reason why it is so attractive. According to a source Google account for 93% of searchers. Therefore showing a huge amount of control in their favour. Google make great a great amount of revenue. This is received from the institutions whose website it is. Google charge a huge amount for being the first results on their webpage’s as it is so popular the website is likely to get many people visiting their website. Google’s revenue was $29.321 billion in 2010. This is a huge amount of money suggesting this is a powerful media institution and has a great control on people. They ware also estimated worth 163.2 billion in 2010.
Another massive institution which has taken the internet by storm are social networks. Facebook and twitter are the biggest social networks and are very well known. They also account for a mass population. More than 800 million active users use facebook. More than 50% of our active users log on to Facebook in any given day. Users of website check news and other stories and groups. More than 900 million objects that people interact with (pages, groups, events and community pages). The popularity is so high that More than 350 million active users currently access Facebook through their mobile devices. This suggests the addiction facebook has on its users. This suggests that facebook are a strong media institution in manipulating people. Twitter is also a have huge interaction from people. 140 million. The average number of Tweets people sent per day, in the last month. This shows people are able to communicate with each other over anything. News stories, are commented on by people allowing people to express their views and opinions.