I'm sure other people have noted this but at some point we went from talking about "social network sites" to talking about "social media sites"
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I'm sure other people have noted this but at some point we went from talking about "social network sites" to talking about "social media sites".
At first, the network was the thing that mattered. Then, the media was the thing that mattered.
A quick Google Trends query shows the shift might have happened around 2012:
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I'm sure other people have noted this but at some point we went from talking about "social network sites" to talking about "social media sites".
At first, the network was the thing that mattered. Then, the media was the thing that mattered.
A quick Google Trends query shows the shift might have happened around 2012:
social network is way more empowering. saying it's media positions people as watchers. that is what it has become, but we should strive to make networks that enable us to work together.
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I'm sure other people have noted this but at some point we went from talking about "social network sites" to talking about "social media sites".
At first, the network was the thing that mattered. Then, the media was the thing that mattered.
A quick Google Trends query shows the shift might have happened around 2012:
related -- "social web" is totally overused.
there is a social web, we just haven't developed very much of it, i think because we were intimidated by the silos. i'm not intimidated any more, i'm fed up and going ahead without them.
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social network is way more empowering. saying it's media positions people as watchers. that is what it has become, but we should strive to make networks that enable us to work together.
@davew Yeah, the web became kind of Neil Postman-ized in the "Amusing Ourselves to Death" sense
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