Web 2.0 represents a significant shift in internet technology and culture, enabling two-way communication and dynamic online experiences through web-based applications. It includes social media as a social component that facilitates community building and multi-way conversations among users. Ultimately, social media enhances global interaction socially, politically, and economically.

1. What is Web 2.0 ?

2. What is Web 2.0 ?

3. What is Web 2.0 ? A collection of new technologies and the web-based applications that allows for two way communication on an interactive platform (Phoenix SPI, 2009) A significant change in the Internet, bringing with it a new platform and culture for doing business. (Phoenix SPI, 2009) Emerging participatory environment that continuously redefine itself (Phoenix SPI, 2009) Web 2.0 is a “new wave of internet development offering a more dynamic online experience at low cost, using established software tools” (Eneroth in Hitge, 2007 as cited in Stassen, W. 2010)

4. What is Social Media ?

5. What is Social Media ?

7. What is Social Media ? Social component of Web 2.0 that allows for community building and multi-way conversations online According to Correa, Hinsley and de Zúñiga, “ it provides a mechanism for the audience to connect, communicate, and interact with each other and their mutual friends (2010).

8. What is Social Media ? Ultimately social media is allowing people to interact socially, politically, and economically in the global sphere through interconnectivity and non-linear interactions.

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