1.1.+Social+Media

1. Types of social media 1.1. Web blogs. "Twitter". 1.2. Social networking sites. "Facebook". 1.3. Content communities. "You tube". 1.4. Virtual game world. "World of Warcraft". 1.5. Virtual social world. "Second life". 2. Social impact. What do you think about social media? References
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[|Social media] is media for social interaction as a super-set beyond social communication. Enabled by accessible and scalable communication techniques, social media has substantially changed the way organizations, communities, and individuals communicate. =====

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People obtain information, education, news and other data from electronic media and print media. Social media are distinct from industrial or traditional media, such as [|newspapers], [|television], and [|film]. They are relatively inexpensive and accessible to enable anyone (even private individuals) to publish or access information, compared to industrial media, which generally require significant resources to publish information. =====

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Social media takes on many different forms including magazines, [|Internet forums], [|weblogs], [|social blogs], [|microblogging], [|wikis], [|podcasts], photographs or pictures, [|video], rating and [|social bookmarking]. ===== According to Kaplan and Haenlein there are six different types of social media: collaborative projects (e.g., [|Wikipedia]), blogs and microblogs (e.g., [|Twitter]), content communities (e.g., [|YouTube]), social networking sites (e.g., [|Facebook]), virtual game worlds (e.g., [|World of Warcraft]), and virtual social worlds (e.g. [|Second Life]). Technologies include: [|blogs], picture-sharing, [|vlogs], wall-postings, [|email], [|instant messaging], music-sharing, [|crowdsourcing] and [|voice over IP], to name a few. Many of these social media services can be integrated via [|social network aggregation] platforms.

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[|Blogging] has become a pervasive form of media. A [|blog] is a website, usually maintained by an individual, with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or interactive media such as images or video. A typical blog combines text, images and other graphics, and links to other blogs, web pages, and related media. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. =====

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