The Motive Web Design Glossary
social media
Social media is a content-service that enables social interaction to generate, disseminate, and access content – such as articles, photos or video.
Examples of social media websites and services include:
- Facebook: social networking,
- Blogger: online journals/blogs,
- Twitter: short form messaging,
- Flickr: photo sharing,
- YouTube: video sharing,
- Digg: content recommendation,
- Wikipedia: collaborative online encyclopedia
Often synonymous with web 2.0, social media is the preferred term for describing the how content is generated (through social interaction/‘user-contributed’), whereas web 2.0 describes the underlying technologies, including the ways that people are able to use the system (interface).
blog, content, convergence, interface, web 2.0.
References and further reading
- Deciding to use social media (New Zealand Government Web Standards)
Legal and policy considerations for the use of social media/social networking services in the public sector.
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