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  2. WhatsApp - Wikipedia

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    WhatsApp (officially WhatsApp Messenger) is an instant messaging (IM) and voice-over-IP (VoIP) service owned by technology conglomerate Meta. [14] It allows users to send text, voice messages and video messages, [15] make voice and video calls, and share images, documents, user locations, and other content.

  3. Rich Communication Services - Wikipedia

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    Rich Communication Services ( RCS) is a communication protocol between mobile telephone carriers and between phone and carrier, aiming at replacing SMS messages with a text-message system that is richer, provides phonebook polling (for service discovery ), and can transmit in-call multimedia. It is part of the broader IP Multimedia Subsystem.

  4. Uses and gratifications theory - Wikipedia

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    Uses and gratifications theory is a communication theory that describes the reasons and means by which people seek out media to meet specific needs. The theory postulates that media is a highly available product, that audiences are the consumers of the product, and that audiences choose media to satisfy given needs as well as social and psychological uses, such as knowledge, relaxation, social ...

  5. Social networking service - Wikipedia

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    Illustrations showing various icons of some popular social networking services. A social networking service or SNS (sometimes called a social networking site) is a type of online social media platform which people use to build social networks or social relationships with other people who share similar personal or career content, interests ...

  6. Social media - Wikipedia

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    Social media. Social media app icons on a smartphone screen. Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content, ideas, interests, and other forms of expression through virtual communities and networks. [1] [2] Social media refer to new forms of media that involve interactive participation.

  7. Ministry of Communications and Informatics - Wikipedia

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    The Ministry of Communications and Informatics ( Indonesian: Kementerian Komunikasi dan Informatika; abbreviated as Kominfo) is an Indonesian government ministry that is responsible for communications, information affairs and internet censorship. The ministry reports to the president and is currently led by Budi Arie Setiadi, the Minister of ...

  8. The medium is the message - Wikipedia

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    The phrase was coined by Marshall McLuhan. " The medium is the message " is a phrase coined by the Canadian communication theorist Marshall McLuhan and the name of the first chapter [1] in his Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, published in 1964. [2] [3] McLuhan proposes that a communication medium itself, not the messages it carries ...

  9. Indian WhatsApp lynchings - Wikipedia

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    The Indian WhatsApp lynchings are a spate of mob-related violence and killings following the spread of rumours, primarily relating to child-abduction and organ harvesting, via the WhatsApp message service. The spate of lynchings commenced in May 2017 with the killing of seven men in Jharkhand, but did not become a matter of national attention ...