Chapter 7 Flashcards
Dialogic Communication
Social media employ a model of many-to-many communication
Social media (defined)
Use of technology combined with social interactions to create or co-create value
Participatory production
Roots in the free and open source software
OpenOffice vs. Microsoft
5 C’s that make social media “social”
Choice Conversation Curation Creation Collaboration
Choice
More competition to attract audience
Conversation
Early days: email, IM, etc
Today: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, etc
Curation
Gatekeeping/Gatewatching
Gatekeeping
Trained professional that control flow of information
librarians, journalists
Gatewatching
People acting as their own filters, classifieds and reviewers
Creation
Cheaper communications tech which leads to more people creating media
Collaboration
Willingness to collaborate on common good for no monetary gain
Minitel
In 1980 he created a French social network, predates Internet social networks
Microblogs
1999: blogger.com
2006: Twitter (first microblog)
2007: tumbler
Wikis