Title: Social media - Wikipedia
Headings: Social media
Social media
Contents
History of social media
Early computing
Data compression
Development of social-media platforms
Definition and features
Mobile social media
Elements and function
Viral content
Bots
New social media technology
Platform convergence
Statistics on usage and membership
Most popular social networking services
Usage
Use at the organizational level
Governments
Law enforcement and investigations
Government Reputation Management
Businesses
Social media marketing
Politics
Hiring
Science
Academia
School admissions
Court cases
Use by individuals
As a news source
As a social tool
As a self-presentational tool
As a health behavior change and reinforcement tool
Impacts on users
Effects on individual and collective memory
Negative interpersonal interactions
Social comparison
Sleep disturbance
Emotional effects
Social impacts
Disparity
Political polarization
Stereotyping
Effects on youth communication
Criticism, debate and controversy
Trustworthiness and reliability
Data harvesting and data mining
Critique of activism
Ownership of content
Privacy
Criticism of commercialization
Debate over addiction
Debate over use in academic settings
Censorship by governments
Decentralization and open standards
Deplatforming
Reproduction of class distinctions
Use by extremist groups
2021 Storming of the United States Capitol Building
Deceased users
See also
References
Further reading
External links

Content: Wikis are examples of collaborative content creation. Social media outlets differ from traditional media (e.g., print magazines and newspapers, and TV and radio broadcasting) in many ways, including quality, reach, frequency, usability, immediacy, and permanence. Additionally, social media outlets operate in a dialogic transmission system (i.e., many sources to many receivers), while traditional media outlets operate under a monologic transmission model (i.e., one source to many receivers). For example, a newspaper is delivered to many subscribers and a radio station broadcasts the same programs to an entire city. Since the dramatic expansion of the Internet, digital media or digital rhetoric can be used to represent or identify a culture. Studying how the rhetoric that exists in the digital environment has become a crucial new process for many scholars. Observers have noted a wide range of positive and negative impacts of social media use. 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. Observers have also seen that there has been a rise in social movements using social media as a tool for communicating and organizing in times of political unrest. Contents
1 History of social media
1.1 Early computing
1.1.1 Data compression
1.2 Development of social-media platforms
2 Definition and features
2.1 Mobile social media
2.2 Elements and function
2.2.1 Viral content
2.2.2 Bots
2.2.3 New social media technology
2.3 Platform convergence
3 Statistics on usage and membership
3.1 Most popular social networking services
3.2 Usage
4 Use at the organizational level
4.1 Governments
4.1.1 Law enforcement and investigations
4.1.2 Government Reputation Management
4.2 Businesses
4.2.1 Social media marketing
4.3 Politics
4.4 Hiring
4.5 Science
4.6 Academia
4.7 School admissions
4.8 Court cases
5 Use by individuals
5.1 As a news source
5.2 As a social tool
5.3 As a self-presentational tool
5.4 As a health behavior change and reinforcement tool
6 Impacts on users
6.1 Effects on individual and collective memory
6.2 Negative interpersonal interactions
6.3 Social comparison
6.4 Sleep disturbance
6.5 Emotional effects
7 Social impacts
7.1 Disparity
7.2 Political polarization
7.3 Stereotyping
7.4 Effects on youth communication
8 Criticism, debate and controversy
8.1 Trustworthiness and reliability
8.1.1 Data harvesting and data mining
8.2 Critique of activism
8.3 Ownership of content
8.4 Privacy
8.5 Criticism of commercialization
8.6 Debate over addiction
8.7 Debate over use in academic settings
8.8 Censorship by governments
8.9 Decentralization and open standards
8.10 Deplatforming
8.11 Reproduction of class distinctions
8.12 Use by extremist groups
8.12.1 2021 Storming of the United States Capitol Building
9 Deceased users
10 See also
11 References
12 Further reading
13 External links
History of social media
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