INFS1602 Lecture 9: INFS1602 Week 9 Notes
16 Aug 2018
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Social media (sm) is the use of information technology to support the sharing of content among networks of users. Social media enables people to form communities of practice, which are groups of people related by a common interest. A social media information system (smis) is an information system that supports the sharing of content among networks of users. The roles played by the three organisational units of an smis: Social media providers such as facebook provide platforms that enable the creation of social networks or social relationships among people with common interests. Users include both individuals and organisations that use sm sites to build social relationships. Hundreds of millions of individuals visit sm sites on a regular basis. 73% of people with internet access use sm and 40% use. Organisations are sm users too, they create and manage sm accounts like us. 77% of fortune 500 companies maintain active twitter accounts, 70% have active facebook pages.
