Definition of social media
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These studies suggest social media is a platform for creating and exchanging ideas, facilitating communication, marketing, and political change through adaptive connections.
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Introduction
Social media has become an integral part of modern communication, enabling people to create, share, and exchange content within virtual communities and networks. This synthesis aims to provide a cohesive definition of social media by analyzing insights from multiple research papers.
Key Insights
- Means of Interaction and Content Exchange: Social media refers to platforms where people interact by creating, sharing, exchanging, and commenting on content within virtual communities and networks .
- Communication and Socialization: It serves as a new way to communicate and socialize, allowing users to post information, respond, and conduct dialogues on various platforms like blogs and forums.
- Dynamic Network Creation: Social media is about creating connections through actions such as clicks, shares, likes, and posts, which dynamically grow and evolve the network.
- Information Infrastructure and Cultural Products: It consists of the tools and infrastructure used to produce and distribute content, the digital content itself (personal messages, news, ideas), and the people and organizations that produce and consume this content.
Conclusion
Social media is a multifaceted platform that facilitates interaction, communication, and content exchange within virtual communities. It dynamically creates and evolves networks through user interactions and serves as an infrastructure for producing and distributing digital content that reflects shared values.
Sources and full results
Most relevant research papers on this topic
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Social Media Research and Its Effect on Our Society
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17 Citations
2014
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Quick Overview of the Social Media
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2 Citations
2012
