Exam 4: Chapter 9- Social Computing Flashcards
The World Wide Web first appeared in what year? What was the first generation of the web?
1990; Web 1.0
What were the two key developments of Web 1.0?
- Creation of websites
- The commercialization of the Web
T or F: Users typically had minimal interaction with Web 1.0 sites. Rather, they passively received information from those sites.
True
a loose collection of information technologies and applications, plus the websites that use them; the websites enrich the user experience by encouraging user participation, social interaction, and collaboration
Web 2.0
What is the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 sites are not so much online places to visit (like Web 1.0). They are Web locations that facilitate information sharing, user-centered design, and collaboration.
What are the 5 Web 2.0 information technology tools?
- Tagging
- Really Simple Syndication
- Blogs
- Microblogs
- Wikis
What are the two major types of Web 2.0 sites?
- Social Networking Sites
- Mashups
a key word/term that describes a piece of information (ex: a blog, a picture, an article, or a video clip); users typically choose _____ that are meaningful to them.
tags
Tagging allows users to place information in multiple, _________ associations rather than in ______ categories.
overlapping; rigid
Tagging is the basis of __________.
folksonomies
user-generated classifications that use tags to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photos, videos, and other Web content.
folksonomies
One specific form of tagging → _________: tagging information on maps.
geotagging
a Web 2.0 feature that allows you to receive the information you want (customized information), when you want it, without having to surf thousands of websites.
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
T or F: Most browsers have built-in RSS readers
True
a personal website, open to the public, in which the site creator expresses his or her feelings/opinions via a series of chronological entries.
weblog (or blog for short)
people who create and maintain blogs; write stories, convey news, and provide links to other articles/websites that are of interest to them.
bloggers
term for the millions of blogs on the Web.
blogosphere
Many companies listen to consumers in the blogosphere who express their views on the companies’ products. Marketers refer to these views as:
consumer-generated data
T or F: Blogs often provide incredibly useful information, often before the info becomes available in traditional media outlets (ex: television, newspapers).
True
What is the primary value of blogs? What is the disadvantage of thise?
- their ability to bring current, breaking news to the public in the fastest time possible. (They have transformed the ways in which people gather and consume information)
- Bloggers sometimes cut corners, and they can be inaccurate
a form of blogging that allows users to write short messages (or capture an image or embedded video) and publish them.
microblogging
Content of a microblog differs from a blog because of the
limited space per message (usually up to 140 characters)
What is a popular microblogging service?
Microblogging is very popular in what country?
What is the most popular microblogging service in that country?
China; Weibo
a website made up entirely of content posted by users.
wiki
Wikis have an “edit” link on each page that allows any user to add, change, or delete material, which fosters __________ _____________.
easy collaboration
T or F: Wikis take advantage of the combined input of many individuals.
True
What is the largest existing wiki?
Wikipedia
Why are wikis valuable to organizations? (2 things)
- enable companies to collaborate with customers, suppliers, and other business partners on projects.
- valuable in knowledge management.
a social structure composed of individuals, groups, or organizations linked by values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, kinship, conflict, or trade.
social network
A social network can be described as a map of all relevant links or connections among the network’s members. For each individual member, that map is his/her ______ ______. (term coined by Mark Zuckerberg; Facebook)
social graph
activities performed using social software tools (ex: blogging) or social networking features (ex: media sharing); allows convenient connections to those of similar interest.
social networking
the number of connections a person has within and between social networks.
social capital
Participants who post on social networking sites tend to reveal a great deal of personal information. As a result, if they are not careful, their information could be _______.
stolen
T or F: Social networking sites collect small amount of data.
False– they collect a MASSIVE amount of data (some of it uploaded by their users and some generated from monitoring user activity on the sites)
Platforms pay the most attention to what two metrics?
- the number of unique visitors to their websites
- the length of time that each visitor spends on the sites
the process of keeping users on websites as long as possible. This content is often sensationalized. This means that the more sensational the content, the greater number of people who will read/watch it.
engagement
What are 3 serious issues associated with social media platforms?
- False Information (like fake news and deep fakes)
- Psychological measures used to keep visitors on their sites longers (like randomly scheduled rewards, doom scrolling, and infinite scroll)
- Third-party entities (bots, trolls, cyborgs)
What are the two kinds of fake news?
- Content that’s entirely untrue
- Content that has some truth but is not totally accurate