Reading Quiz #9

Social Media Definition

“Use of technology combined with social interaction to create or co-create value.” - John Jantsch

Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) movement

A movement advocating software to be freely available and the source code open to anyone to make modifications and improvements.

Distributed Computing

Individual computers working on a huge project together

5 Fundamental Areas of Changing Media Habits

1. Choice
2. Conversation
3. Curation
4. Creation
5. Collaboration

Listservs

Automated mailing-list administrators (like subscription emails)

Lurking

only reading what others write in online discussion boards but not contributing to the discussions

Scrolling

simply repeating the same message in a chat room, which quickly draws the ire of other participants

6 degrees of separation - psychologist Stanley Milgram

the notion that everyone is separated from all other individuals by at most 6 additional nodes in a social network

Produsers

audiences who no longer are simply consumers but also produce content