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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
Choice
Conversation
Curation
Creation
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