Wat is sociale media?

Ik kwam via via een super interessant artikel van Stowe Boyd tegen over sociale media. Wat is sociale media volgens hem:

When I say “social media” or “new media” I’m talking about Internet media that has the ability to interact with it in some way. (...)

I don’t really care what you call this “new media” but you’ve got to admit that something different is happening here than happens on other media above.

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another way of defining Social Media is the way that we are organizing ourselves to communicate, to learn, and to understand the world and our place in it. And we just won't accept any models for that that aren't intensely social: we won't put up with large organizations telling us what is right, or true, or necessary. We will now have those conversations among ourselves, here, at the edge. Social Media has released us, freed us: and we won't go back.

Dit zette me ook aan het denken:

The societal phenomenon of Social Media (supported by the nuts and bolts of social media tools) has been a profound one, over the past decade. I predict that the impact in the next decade will be even more sweeping, and much more widespread. As an additional billion or two of the world's population finds its way onto the web, our only hope may be that the web finds its way into the world: that the principles of openness, transparency, diversity, and egalitarianism that engender web culture remake the world, one conversation at a time. Political parties, multinationals, the corner dress shop, your county government -- everything will be influenced by the infectious openness of the web, because the edglings will simply not settle for less.

Artikel is te vinden op:

http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/2007/02/scoble_asks_wha.html