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What is the primary source of content on social media platforms?
How do users typically access social media services?
How do social media outlets differ from traditional media?
What is digital rhetoric?
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What are some potential positive impacts of social media?
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What is one potential negative impact of social media?
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In what context have social media been used as a tool for communication and organization?
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Study Notes
- Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information through virtual communities and networks.
- User-generated content is the lifeblood of social media.
- Social media platforms are user-centric and enable communal activity.
- Users access social media services through web-based apps on desktops or download services that offer social media functionality to their mobile devices.
- Social media are highly interactive platforms in which individuals, communities, and organizations can share, co-create, discuss, participate, and modify user-generated or self-curated content posted online.
- Social media outlets differ from traditional media in many ways, including quality, reach, frequency, usability, relevancy, and permanence.
- Digital media or digital rhetoric can be used to represent or identify a culture.
- Social media can help to improve an individual's sense of connectedness with real or online communities and can be an effective communication (or marketing) tool for corporations, entrepreneurs, non-profit organizations, advocacy groups, political parties, and governments.
- Social media can have both positive and negative impacts.
- Social media have been used as a tool for communicating and organizing in times of political unrest.
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Description
Are you a social media guru? Test your knowledge with our quiz! From user-generated content to the impact of social media on politics, this quiz covers a wide range of topics related to social media. Sharpen your skills and learn more about the interactive technologies that shape our online communities. Keywords: social media, user-generated content, digital media, communication, marketing, politics.
