NATS 1700 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Az Yet, Virtual Community, Pew Research Center
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The hackers one: free diffusion of innovation. The entrepreneurial one: new businesses that spread internet through the world. The wireless comm. one: mobile youth culture, communities built on permanent connectivity and interaction. The social media, particularly social networks that enable ppl to be together. Social media are internet-based&mobile services that provide communicating. Exchange all messages in different forms (email, texting, twitter) Contribute user-created content (blogs, videos, photographs,wikis, social bookmarks) Participate in virtual communities (virtual games - second life,) Second life 1 (surreal world, virtual world - makes people think they are there) A social network is a kind of social media that allows individuals to interact by. Constructing a public or semi-public pro le within a closed system. Articulating a list of other users with whom they can share photos, music. etc. Viewing and traversing their list of connection and those made by other within the system. Creating a list of friends , update status, likes/dislikes, commenting, & private messaging.