Social media
Social media – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: “Social media is the combination of activities that come together in a medium using one or more senses of sight, sound, or motion to create visual displays, picture-sharing opportunities, and the creation of shared-meaning through words and pictures by people. It is defined as engagement over a medium as compared to face-to-face. Social media uses the “wisdom of crowds” to create information in a collaborative manner. Social media can utilize many different forms, including text, images, audio, and video to provide context and meaning. Social media can take many different forms, including message boards, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures, and video. Technologies such as blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, group creation, and voice over IP, to name a few. Examples of social media applications are Goggle (reference, social networking), Wikipedia (reference), MySpace (social networking), Facebook (social networking), Club Penguin (children’s social networking), iTunes (personal music), YouTube (social networking and video sharing), Second Life (virtual reality), and Flickr (photo-sharing).”
