People & Technology » social media http://blog.viil.net mostly about People & Technology Sat, 06 Feb 2010 02:44:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Social Media – a child with many parents http://blog.viil.net/2009/12/social-media-a-child-with-many-parents/ http://blog.viil.net/2009/12/social-media-a-child-with-many-parents/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 07:10:29 +0000 Viil Lid http://blog.viil.net/?p=3 Social media can safely be called one of the biggest trends of 2009. By now  it has become more popular than email and everyone’s grandma is doing it.

Even if the social media concept is new to many it is closely related to other concepts which have been studied for decades and can teach us a lot.

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Social media has inherited aspects from social networks, computer-mediated communication, and human-computer interaction. It is also related to domains like computer supported collaboration, online communities, online identity,  impression management, interpersonal relationship, interpersonal communication, and group communication. Knowledge gathered in these domains over the years help us understand the social media phenomena.

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