Difference between revisions of "Social Media"
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| + | Social Media are inexpensive 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. | ||
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| + | Social Media are distinct from traditional industrial media, such as newspapers, television, and film, which generally require significant resources to publish information. | ||
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| + | 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. | ||
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| + | 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== | ==Classification of Main Types of Social Mean== | ||
| − | Communication | + | Communication: |
*Blogs | *Blogs | ||
*Micro-blogging | *Micro-blogging | ||
*Event Sites | *Event Sites | ||
| − | Networking | + | Social Networking: |
*Social Networking | *Social Networking | ||
*Social Aggregators | *Social Aggregators | ||
| − | Collaboration | + | Online Collaboration: |
*Wikis | *Wikis | ||
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| + | Opinion and Knowledge Sharing: | ||
*Social Bookmarking | *Social Bookmarking | ||
*Social News | *Social News | ||
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*Q&A Sites | *Q&A Sites | ||
| − | Media Sharing | + | Media Sharing: |
*Photo Sharing | *Photo Sharing | ||
*Music Sharing | *Music Sharing | ||
*Video Sharing | *Video Sharing | ||
*Game Sharing | *Game Sharing | ||
| − | + | *Podcasting | |
| − | Podcasting | + | *Livecasting |
| − | Livecasting | + | |
Entertainment | Entertainment | ||
*Virtual Worlds | *Virtual Worlds | ||
| − | *Online Games | + | *Online Games: Browser Games, Massively Multiplayer Online Games |
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==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
*[[Web 2.0]] | *[[Web 2.0]] | ||
| + | *Mashup | ||
| + | *Folksonomy | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*Wikipedia article about Social Media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media | *Wikipedia article about Social Media: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media | ||
*Common Craft animation about Social Media: http://www.commoncraft.com/socialmedia | *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: | + | [[Category:Social Media]] |
