Week 5 - Lecture

Week 5's finally arrived, bringing with it Internet studies.

Identity was one topic which seemed to strike a note with a lot of people. 'You can be anyone on the internet.'




The focus of internet has moved away from groups of people with common interests, to groups of people whom know each other offline.

Folksonomy, a way of organizing knowledge. For example, in blogs and wiki's were found in Web 2.0. Web 2.0 created the idea of user-generated content, which helped ease information in the form of; videos, images, photos and text, being uploaded onto the internet.

Saying social media is a bit like saying atm machine. ATM means Automatic-Teller-Machine machine. Media is social, so saying social media is really saying social media media. Why not just say media? That being said, I will continue to call it social media.
Social media is defined as what we do on the internet. For example, blogs, wiki's, searching, flikr, youtube, myspace, facebook, etc.
Accordingly, we are all social media experts, because we use all these media.

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