COST-1116EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Kondratiev Wave, Media Consumption, Canadian Cultural Protectionism
8 Dec 2015
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Social media are technologically mediated tools that allow people to create, share or exchange info, ideas, picture, and videos in virtual communities and networks. It is now seen to depend on mobile and web-based technologies to create highly interactive technologies to create highly interactive platforms through which individuals and communities share, co-create, discuss, and modify user-generated content. Social media introduces substantial and pervasive changes to communication between businesses, organizations, communities and individuals. Social media differ from traditional or industrial media in many ways, including quality, reach, frequency, usability, immediacy and permanence. Social media operates in a dialogic transmission system, (many sources to many receivers). From mass distribution of symbolic products to mass communication. As we know, technology is shaped by political, social, economic, and cultural forces. Communication as a practice of representation means that cultural producers are active participants in the production of meaning. Dynamic between what we want and what industries want that are making our choices.
