LinkAsia
| May 10, 2013
Internet users in China are increasingly sidestepping state officials and taking action into their own hands. Bloggers are not only probing the law in mainland China, but governments in other countries as well, such as the US. LinkAsia's Mark Drey...
LinkAsia
| Apr 20, 2013
Chinese bloggers flooded Sina Weibo with expressions of sympathy and grief after news broke about the Boston bombing, and that one of the casualties was a Chinese grad student. Many took the opportunity to mourn, while other bloggers couldn't help...
The Wall Street Journal
| Apr 8, 2013
The hashtag #nowthatchersdead was trending worldwide on Twitter following the death of former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher -- but a lack of capitalization also caused alarm to some of US entertainer Cher's fans.
LinkAsia
| Mar 29, 2013
Since the beginning of the year, more than 350 Shia muslims have been killed and hundreds more injured in bombings and targeted killings in Pakistan. Islamabad-based journalist Michelle Stockman reports on who's behind the violence, and how Pakist...
NOS London
| Mar 28, 2013
An former admin worker in Britain with no military experience has become one of the world's top authorities on weapons being used in the Syrian civil war, largely through searching hundreds of YouTube channels. Eliot Higgins of the influential "Br...
LinkAsia
| Mar 22, 2013
China's state-run CCTV leveled serious charges against Apple this week, claiming that its customer service representatives discriminate against Chinese. But as LinkAsia's David Bandurski reports, CCTV itself is under fire for allegedly using an ar...
BBC Africa
| Mar 22, 2013
Kenyans and Nigerians have been engaged in a Twitter battle following reports that Kenya's national football team the Harambee Stars had been denied a proper training ground. The Kenyans also complained about their hotel accommodation as the team ...
Democracy Now!
| Mar 18, 2013
Two high school football players in Steubenville, Ohio, have been found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl at a party last August. On Sunday, the teenagers, Trent Mays and Ma'lik Richmond, were found delinquent in the sexual assault of the girl w...
NTDTV
| Mar 15, 2013
Chris Hadfield has become the first Canadian commander of the International Space Station but the veteran astronaut is probably better known for his social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and YouTube, where his videos include plenty o...
LinkAsia
| Mar 4, 2013
A side effect of rapid industrialization and few regulations, China's rivers are often treated as little more than sewers. But as LinkAsia contributor Mark Dreyer reports, an online campaign to clean up the country's water is gathering steam.
— Dec 25, 2012 at 01:26 am
...The upcoming election has made social media the place to be. An investigative report by Yedioth Ahronoth recently revealed how simple it is to r...
Sociale medier er medier for social interaktion, hvilket vil sige at der er et socialt sammenspil online. Det er altså kommunikation der går begge veje. Dette gøres ved at bruge lette og stærkt tilgængelige kommunikative teknikker. Sociale medier kan også siges at være brugen af webbaserede og mobile teknologier, der gør kommunikation til en interaktiv dialog. Det kan være gennem en blog og kommentarer til disse. Det vil altså sige, at sociale medier er kommunikation mellem medie og bruger.
Andreas Kaplan og Michael Haenlein definerer sociale medier som ”en gruppe af internetbaserede applikationer, som er bygget på det ideologiske og teknologiske grundlag for web 2.0, hvilket muliggør skabelsen og udvekslingen af brugergeneret indhold”. En rød tråd, der går igen i alle definitioner af sociale medier, er en blanding af teknologi og social interaktion for indsamling af nyttige informationer for brugeren. Sociale medier skal være nemme at finde rundt i, og det skal også være nemt at skabe en dialog.
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