2. STUDENT NAME: XINYUE
WANG
STUDENT NUMBER: XW1G17
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES:
1. Introducing background knowledge of social networking sites
2. Identifying digital technologies and its implication to the mass
media
3. Comparing traditional marketing and digital marketing from the
perspective of marketing mix
4. Analyzing the implementation of social media to digital marketing
4. XINYUE WANG (XW1G17)
DISCIPLINE 1:SOCIOLOGY
▸Daily life is becoming digital (Lipton, 2015).
▸Digital technologies change our social activities from many
perspectives (Castells, 2000).
▸E.g. Social media
5. XINYUE WANG(XW1G17)
DISCIPLINE 2: MARKETING
Online Marketing Traditional
Products Same
Price Same
Place Websites and Apps In-store
Promotion General Advertising Digital Advertising
People Same
▸Online Marketing Versus Traditional Marketing
(Kaufmann and Manarioti, 2017)
6. XINYUE WANG (XW1G17)
THE IMPLEMENTATION OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN MARKET
▸Customer relationship
▸Advertising
▸However, intellectual property rights may become a issue.
7. XINYUE WANG (XW1G17)
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Editor's Notes
Due to the development of Internet and smart devices, people tend to rely on social media in their daily life. Since last century, web science has developed from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and Web 3.0. Digital technologies have developed from personal computers with limited internet connecting location to smart devices that could access to wireless and broadband without location restrictions (Lupton, 2015). In Web 1.0, location of people’s access to Internet is limited because they can only get to Internet through telephone lines; however, Web 2.0 developed to an easy-entry era (Constantinides and Fountain, 2008; Lupton, 2015). Until 2016, there has been around 3.5 billion people using Internet worldwide (Statista, 2017). Web 2.0 as an emerging era that people could not only browser but also generate and share content on the Internet. They are empowered to take an active position during the experience of using Internet (Hajli, 2015). Social networking site is a kind of typical Web 2.0 Internet technology.
Internet is becoming ubiquitous under the environment of Web 2.0 era, so the society eventually transfers into a digital society from many perspectives. Traditional media prefers to print media and audio-visual media, including newspapers, magazines, television and so on. Recent years, the revolution of web results in the ‘new media’. The ‘ new media’ utilizes new technologies to deliver information, such as digital magazines and social networking sites (Haralambos, 2013). For example, there are many online platforms that allow end-users and producers to publish information and communicate with each other.
This slides compared differences between traditional and digital marketing using 5Ps marketing mix.
Place: Locations to operate business are different between traditional marketing and digital marketing. For traditional marketing, the location is limited because transactions can
only happen in physical stores; in contrast, business transaction could happen anytime and anywhere online.
Promotion: Traditional marketing may rely on physical advertisements (e.g. posters) and television advertisements. Digital marketing tends to use social networking sites (e.g. Facebook and YouTube) to promote and advertise products and service.
Current market has been highly competitive, because customers have a significant number of options all over the world (Hajli, 2015). In order to attract and maintain customers, businesses prefer to contact with customers via social media. It enable customers to share their experience and reflect their feedback to producers. From the view of producers, they can adjust products and service to customers requirements according to their comments and feedbacks posted online.
There are various types of digital advertising, such as website advertising and e-mail advertising. They can provide immediate interaction between customers and producers (Cheng et al., 2009). Compared with traditional advertising, it may be more up-to-date, which can reflect the trend of market.
However, easy-access to information online may result in the issue of intellectual property rights.