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Understanding
Social Media
Todd Hampton
Gateway Community College
• According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project
85% of adults use the internet regularly.*
• 91% use a search engine to find information*
• 88% regularly use *
• 78% use it to search for employment.*
• 67% use a social networking sites like
Facebook, twitter, linked in or Google +*
*Source Pew Internet & American Life Project

Who uses the internet?
• Social media is the collective of online communications
channels dedicated to community-based input,
interaction, content-sharing and collaboration.
• Social media can include text, audio, video, images,
podcasts, and other multimedia communications.
• News and information is shared amongst users. (Many
Media)

What is social media?
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Text messaging; sms and mms
Email; including webmail(gmail etc) and
fixed (outlook)
Instant Messaging: eg Windows
Messenger; skype
Forums; of the traditional message board
variety.
Social networks: such as
Facebook, MySpace, Bebo
Blogging: Platforms such as
Blogger, Wordpress,
Microblogging: eg Twitter, Plurk, Tumblr
Video sharing sites: eg Youtube, Vimeo

•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•

Image sharing sites: such as photobucket,
flickr
Audio sharing: Lastfm, blip.fm, podcasts
Conversation aggregators: such as
Friendfeed, Disqus
Human-powered search sites such as
mahalo, and increasingly twitter etc
Human filtering sites such as digg,
delicious, stumbleupon
Comments on more traditional
‘broadcast-style’ sites – such as the BBC,
Guardian.co.uk
Wikis: wikipedia
Googlewave?

Forms of Social Media
•
•
•
•

Social Skills
Self Expression
Digital competence
Educational
development
• Research

•
•
•
•
•

Oversharing
Bullying
Permanency
Disclosure
Isolation

Advantage and Risks of
Social Media
Social media explained

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Social media explained

  • 2. • According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project 85% of adults use the internet regularly.* • 91% use a search engine to find information* • 88% regularly use * • 78% use it to search for employment.* • 67% use a social networking sites like Facebook, twitter, linked in or Google +* *Source Pew Internet & American Life Project Who uses the internet?
  • 3. • Social media is the collective of online communications channels dedicated to community-based input, interaction, content-sharing and collaboration. • Social media can include text, audio, video, images, podcasts, and other multimedia communications. • News and information is shared amongst users. (Many Media) What is social media?
  • 4. • • • • • • • • Text messaging; sms and mms Email; including webmail(gmail etc) and fixed (outlook) Instant Messaging: eg Windows Messenger; skype Forums; of the traditional message board variety. Social networks: such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo Blogging: Platforms such as Blogger, Wordpress, Microblogging: eg Twitter, Plurk, Tumblr Video sharing sites: eg Youtube, Vimeo • • • • • • • • Image sharing sites: such as photobucket, flickr Audio sharing: Lastfm, blip.fm, podcasts Conversation aggregators: such as Friendfeed, Disqus Human-powered search sites such as mahalo, and increasingly twitter etc Human filtering sites such as digg, delicious, stumbleupon Comments on more traditional ‘broadcast-style’ sites – such as the BBC, Guardian.co.uk Wikis: wikipedia Googlewave? Forms of Social Media
  • 5.
  • 6. • • • • Social Skills Self Expression Digital competence Educational development • Research • • • • • Oversharing Bullying Permanency Disclosure Isolation Advantage and Risks of Social Media