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  2. Social media - Wikipedia

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    Social media allows for mass cultural exchange and intercultural communication, despite different ways of communicating in various cultures. [221] Social media has affected the way youth communicate, by introducing new forms of language. [222] Novel acronyms save time, as illustrated by "LOL", which is the ubiquitous shortcut for "laugh out loud".

  3. Digital media - Wikipedia

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    In mass communication, digital media is any communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, and preserved on a digital electronic device, including digital data storage media (in contrast to analog electronic media ...

  4. Electronic media - Wikipedia

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    The computers to store, transmit, and display the web page are electronic media. The web page is an electronic medium. Graphical representations of electrical audio data. Electronic media uses either analog (red) or digital (blue) signal processing. Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical means for the audience to ...

  5. Media ecology - Wikipedia

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    Media ecology. Media ecology theory is the study of media, technology, and communication and how they affect human environments. [1] The theoretical concepts were proposed by Marshall McLuhan in 1964, [2] while the term media ecology was first formally introduced by Neil Postman in 1968. [3]

  6. Social media marketing - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. Social media marketing is the use of social media platforms and websites to promote a product or service. [ 1 ] Although the terms e-marketing and digital marketing are still dominant in academia, social media marketing is becoming more popular for both practitioners and researchers. [ 2 ]

  7. Social media as a news source - Wikipedia

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    Social media as a news source is the use of online social media platforms rather than moreover traditional media platforms to obtain news. Just as television turned a nation of people who listened to media content into watchers of media content in the 1950s to the 1980s, the emergence of social media has created a nation of media content ...

  8. Digital literacy - Wikipedia

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    Digital literacy. A teacher and his students in a computer lab. Digital literacy is an individual's ability to find, evaluate, and communicate information using typing or digital media platforms. It is a combination of both technical and cognitive abilities in using information and communication technologies to create, evaluate, and share ...

  9. Media (communication) - Wikipedia

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    In communication, media (singular medium) are the outlets or tools used to store and deliver content; semantic information or subject matter of which the media contains. [1] [2] The term generally refers to components of the mass media communications industry, such as print media, publishing, news media, photography, cinema, broadcasting (radio and television), digital media, and advertising. [3]