Today let's look at the top 6 social media (web 2.0 or New New media): Blogging, Youtube, Wikipedia, Myspace, Facebook, and Twitter.
Each group please provide the following information about your social media:
1. What is it?
2. When was it introduce and when did it gain prominence?
3. What are the most important terms or ideas associated with it?
4. In what ways does it use interactivity and intertextuality?
5. What are its contested terms or ideas?
FACEBOOK:
ReplyDelete1. Facebook is a social networking website
2. 2004, and by 2009 was the most used social networking site in the world.
3. Online Cred, Interactivity, Identification
4. You can play games, post links, talk to each other, "like" things, create groups of like-individuals.
5. "friends," Social media vs Web 2.0 vs New New Media
TWITTER:
ReplyDelete1) social networking and micro-blogging website. Users can create and respond to short messages called tweets.
2) Introduced July 15th, 2006, and gained prominence in 2007.
3) tweet and retweet, following, 140 character limit.
4) Interactivity: create and comment on post, can follow other twitter accounts as well as be followed, user to text persuasion is all about how to attract people to your tweets and get followers.
Intertextuality: can post links, retweeting, and referring to existing text.
5) concept of individual narcissism.
MySpace
ReplyDelete1. What is it?
A social networking website that is largely considered the precursor to social mogul Facebook
2. When was it introduced and when did it gain prominence?
Introduced in the early 2000's, MySpace hit its pinnacle in June 2006 and was overthrown in April 2008
3. What are the most important terms or ideas associated with it?
Band followings, Creepy-personal profiles (generally associated with shadowed and illicit pictures), Music, etc
4. Interactivity and Intertextuality
There is a great ability to link between ANYTHING without closed-scope censorship. Ability to comment on posts, comment on profiles, post videos, polls, etc.
5. What are its contested terms or ideas?
Is it real? Are the "people" real individuals or "bots." Is there any credibility or is it just subjective opinion and banter?
YouTube:
ReplyDelete1. What is it?
It is a video sharing website where users can upload, view, and share videos.
2. When was it introduced and when did it gain prominence?
YouTube was introduced in 2005 and gained immediate popularity and prominence.
3. What are the most important terms or ideas associated with it?
Omni-accessible, free to viewers and producers, viral videos, uploading, channels,
4. In what ways does it use interactivity and intertextuality?
Users can post responses to videos and comment on what they like or don't like. Many videos are compilations, re-mixes, or parodies of other videos.
5. What are its contested terms or ideas?
How free/accessible is it? With copyright issues, a video can be on the site one day and gone the next. Controversial "beat-down" videos promote violence for fame.
From Talia, Debbie, Emma, and Cambria:
ReplyDeleteBLOGS:
1. "Weblog," an online outlet where users can post thoughts, ideas, goings on, etc. A public stream where other users can read and leave comments, therefore it is very interactive.
2. The term "weblog" was first coined in December 1997. By 2004, blogging became mainstream, used in both popular and political arenas.
3. Follow, subscribe, comment, blog/ger/ging, views, stats.
4. Interactivity: Very "user-to-user" based (comments, etc). Intertextuality: links can be included in posts.
5. "Bloggers in pajamas," monetizing of blogs.
Wikipedia: an online (Web 2.0), socially-dependent encyclopedia. It began in 2001 and by 2005 the number of articles started shooting up exponentially. The new term for the technology was the wiki, which we associated with comprehensive peer review; also, exclusionists and inclusionists.
ReplyDeleteInteractivity: Edit, comment, submit, challenge.
Intertextuality: Links to other articles on wiki as well as outside links for sources and works by authors/artists.
The inherent problems with such a socially-dependent encyclopedia is the making it credible and only monitoring the content enough to maintain accuracy without infringing on freedom of ideas/speech.