Social media notes for bibliograpghy

The virtual community and the Well

-https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/what-the-wells-rise-and-fall-tell-us-about-online-community/259504/

During 2000-2001 the market bubble burst for the internet and many online companies became bankrupt.

But Other like Google came out stronger from the market crash

-They did this because they managed to gain the ability to harness mass user activity in a way that benefited their company.

Web 2.0

.New rules for making a successful online business

-Profiting from user contributions by lowering the threshold for users to contribute, basically using the users as interns that make the content (social media)

-Also they sold users data 

How do experts define social media:

-There isn't a single definition of social media

-"Tools that increase our ability to share, to co-operate, with one another, and to take collective action"

look on Moodle for author 

-Most experts facilitate the idea that Social media allows the exchange of user generated content

User generated content focussed social media

-YouTube

-Wikipedia

Play and game sites

-Any game that includes online social features

Social network sites

-LinkedIn

-Twitter

Trading and marketing

-Etsy

-Shopify

Some social media fit into all of these like for example;

-Facebook

Users and gratifications theory

-Audience centred approach 

-Explains how and why people use different forms of media 

-It assumes that media and content is rational and directed towards specific goals 

Attention economy 

-Human attention has become commodified

-Social media wants you to stay on the platforms as the longer you stay on the more valuable you are towards them

-This is why you get notifications and why they personalise content for you, constantly force feeding content to its users in hopes they'll stay on

-Your attention is the product 

This business model is addicting towards users

Also users do not know what data companies are taking from them 

Statista (great data website)

A Summary should be/include:

-Key points that the Author makes about their article

-Choose two or three important points and don't use direct quotes

-Keep it objective and formal

-Present tense and in the third person

-Avoid "it's" and use "it is"

-Identify the source in the first sentence

-Then summarise the key points of the article with examples

-Avoid personal pronouns such as "I"