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Social Media are inexpensive (for the user) and accessible internet tools and websites that enable anyone to publish and access online information. The content of social media is created by the people using it, a phenomenon known as User-Generated Content. Social Media are distinct from traditional industrial media, such as newspapers, television, and film, which generally require significant resources to publish information. Social Media are a key element in [[Web 2.0]], which refers to a second generation of web technologies, characterized as facilitating communication, collaboration and information sharing. The roots of Social Media were in the early Bulletin Boards of the 1980s, which gave rise to the first Online Communities. In the 1990s the invention of the World Wide Web led to the development of personal online publishing with Blogs and of online collaboration with the first Wikis. ==Classification of Main Types of Social Mean== Communication: *Blogs *Micro-blogging *Event Sites Social Networking: *Social Networking *Social Aggregators Online Collaboration: *Wikis Opinion and Knowledge Sharing: *Social Bookmarking *Social News *Opinion Sites *Product Reviews *Q&A Sites Media Sharing: *Photo Sharing *Music Sharing *Video Sharing *Game Sharing *Podcasting *Livecasting Entertainment *Virtual Worlds *Online Games: Browser Games, Massively Multiplayer Online Games ==See Also== *[[Web 2.0]] *Mashup *Folksonomy ==External Links== *Wikipedia article about Social Media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media *Common Craft animation about Social Media: http://www.commoncraft.com/socialmedia *boyd and Ellison on History of Social Network Sites: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html *Trebor Scholz's "A History of the Social Web": *Prokoy Neva deconstructs Sholz's article: http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2008/10/a-biased-histor.html [[Category:Social Media]]
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