Social Media
A Social Media is a digital media based on social communication of social content (such as social media posts) created by social media content creators.
- Context:
- It can (often) enable users to create Personal Profiles and connect with others.
- It can (often) include features for Liking, Sharing, and Commenting on content.
- It can utilize algorithms to personalize content and advertisements to users.
- It can be a platform for Digital Marketing and Influencer Marketing.
- It can have mechanisms to report or moderate inappropriate content.
- It can range from being a Public to being a Private.
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- Example(s):
- Blogosphere: one focused on blog contents and bloggers and blog post readers.
- Wikisphere: one focused on wiki content created by wiki editors and wiki readers.
- Vlogosphere: one focused on vlog content created by video bloggers and vlog viewers.
- Podcastosphere: one focused on podcast contents and podcast creators and podcast listeners.
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- Facebook, which allows users to create profiles, share content, and connect with friends.
- Twitter, known for its microblogging format and widespread use in news and social commentary.
- Instagram, focused on photo and video sharing, with an emphasis on visual content.
- LinkedIn, a professional networking site enabling career-related connections and content sharing.
- YouTube, ...
- TikTok, a platform for creating and sharing short-form videos, often featuring music and creative content.
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- Counter-Example(s):
- a Traditional News Website that only allows for one-way communication from the publisher to the reader.
- an Encyclopedia Website like Wikipedia, where content is collaboratively written but not primarily social in nature.
- an Industrial Media, such as news media.
- See: Online Community, Social Networking Service, Content Moderation, Social Group, Fake News.
References
2022
- (Wikipedia, 2022) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_media Retrieved:2022-12-13.
- Social media are interactive media technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.[1][2] While challenges to the definition of social media arise due to the variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available, there are some common features: # Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications.[2] # User-generated content—such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through all online interactions—is the lifeblood of social media.[2] # Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that are designed and maintained by the social media organization.[2] # Social media helps the development of online social networks by connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups.[2][3]
The term social in regard to media suggests that platforms are user-centric and enable communal activity. As such, social media can be viewed as online facilitators or enhancers of human networks—webs of individuals who enhance social connectivity.
Users usually access social media services through web-based apps on desktops or download services that offer social media functionality to their mobile devices (e.g., smartphones and tablets). As users engage with these electronic services, they create highly interactive platforms which individuals, communities, and organizations can share, co-create, discuss, participate, and modify user-generated or self-curated content posted online. [3] Additionally, social media are used to document memories, learn about and explore things, advertise oneself, and form friendships along with the growth of ideas from the creation of blogs, podcasts, videos, and gaming sites.[4] This changing relationship between humans and technology is the focus of the emerging field of technological self-studies. Some of the most popular social media websites, with more than 100 million registered users, include Facebook (and its associated Facebook Messenger), TikTok, WeChat, Instagram, QZone, Weibo, Twitter, Tumblr, Baidu Tieba, and LinkedIn. Depending on interpretation, other popular platforms that are sometimes referred to as social media services include YouTube, QQ, Quora, Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, LINE, Snapchat, Pinterest, Viber, Reddit, Discord, VK, Microsoft Teams, and more. Wikis are examples of collaborative content creation. Social media outlets differ from traditional media (e.g., print magazines and newspapers, TV, and radio broadcasting) in many ways, including quality, reach, frequency, usability, relevancy, and permanence. Additionally, social media outlets operate in a dialogic transmission system (i.e., many sources to many receivers) while traditional media outlets operate under a transmission model (i.e., one source to many receivers). For instance, a newspaper is delivered to many subscribers, and a radio station broadcasts the same programs to an entire city.
Since the dramatic expansion of the Internet, digital media or digital rhetoric can be used to represent or identify a culture. Studying the rhetoric that exists in the digital environment has become a crucial new process for many scholars.
Observers have noted a wide range of positive and negative impacts when it comes to the use of social media. Social media can help to improve an individual's sense of connectedness with real or online communities and can be an effective communication (or marketing) tool for corporations, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, advocacy groups, political parties, and governments. Observers have also seen that there has been a rise in social movements using social media as a tool for communicating and organizing in times of political unrest.
- Social media are interactive media technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks.[1][2] While challenges to the definition of social media arise due to the variety of stand-alone and built-in social media services currently available, there are some common features: # Social media are interactive Web 2.0 Internet-based applications.[2] # User-generated content—such as text posts or comments, digital photos or videos, and data generated through all online interactions—is the lifeblood of social media.[2] # Users create service-specific profiles for the website or app that are designed and maintained by the social media organization.[2] # Social media helps the development of online social networks by connecting a user's profile with those of other individuals or groups.[2][3]
2010
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
- Social media is media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media uses Internet and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many). It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. Andreas Kaplan and Michael Haenlein define social media as "a group of Internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation and exchange of user-generated content”. Businesses also refer to social media as user-generated content (UGC) or consumer-generated media (CGM). Social media utilization is believed to be a driving factor in the idea that the current period in time will be defined as the Attention Age.
2010
- (Kaplan & Haenlein, 2010) ⇒ Andreas M. Kaplan, and Michael Haenlein. (2010). “Users of the World, Unite! The Challenges and Opportunities of Social Media.” In: Business horizons 53]], no. 1
- QUOTE: The concept of Social Media is top of the agenda for many business executives today. Decision makers, as well as consultants, try to identify ways in which firms can make profitable use of applications such as Wikipedia, YouTube, Facebook, Second Life, and Twitter. Yet despite this interest, there seems to be very limited understanding of what the term “Social Media” exactly means; this article intends to provide some clarification. We begin by describing the concept of Social Media, and discuss how it differs from related concepts such as Web 2.0 and User Generated Content. Based on this definition, we then provide a classification of Social Media which groups applications currently subsumed under the generalized term into more specific categories by characteristic: collaborative projects, blogs, content communities, social networking sites, virtual game worlds, and virtual social worlds. Finally, we present 10 pieces of advice for companies which decide to utilize Social Media.
2008
- (Pang & Lee) ⇒ Bo Pang, and Lillian Lee. (2008). “Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis." Now Publishers Inc. ISBN:1601981503
- (Zabin & Jefferies, 2008) ⇒ Jeff Zabin,, and Alex Jefferies. (2008). “Social Media Monitoring and Analysis: Generating Consumer Insights from Online Conversation. Aberdeen Group Benchmark Report, January 2008.
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