SOC 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Collective Intelligence, World Wide Web, Match.Com
12 Mar 2018
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Intro: difference in how we communicate, more info available to people, blogs, twitter, facebook, instagram change the definition of human behaviours. The internet, the web and social media: electronic network of networks that links people and info through computers, world wide web began in 1992 with 2000 websites and there were over 243 million websites in 2009. Social media trends and behaviour: the info infrastructure and tools used to produce and distribute-content, the content that takes the digital form of dms, news, the people, organizations and industries that produce and consume digital content. 1: social media, data collection, and the creation of collective intelligence: collective intelligence, small contributions can increase the world"s knowledge. 2: social media and social protest: the 2010 toronto g-20 summit: activists use social media to report news, expose wrongdoings, express opinions, people also monitor sites for the purpose of surveillance.
