LESSON 1

Introductionto social media

The main social media interaction

INDEX

COMMUNICATION EVOLUTION- The difference between traditional media and new media- Definition of social media and web 2.0

MAIN SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS- Blogs- Social networks- Microblogging- Multimedia sharing- Social bookmarkings- Forum and online communities

PRACTICE:- How to create your TWITTER account in 5 minutes- How to create your YOUTUBE account in 5 minutes

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communication evolutionThe difference between traditional media and new media

Classic media

Communication is one to one

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Information / DataSENDER RECEIVER

MASS media

Communication is one to many

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Information / DataSENDER

RECEIVER

RECEIVER

RECEIVER

SOCIAL media

Communication isone to one to one to one...

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Information / DataPARTICIPANT PARTICIPANT

PARTICIPANT

PARTICIPANT

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communication evolutionDefinition of social media and web 2.0

WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?

Social Media isconversation

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WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?

Definition“Social media technologies take on different forms including magazines, Internet forums, weblogs, social blogs,microblogging, wikis, social networks, podcasts, photographs or pictures, video, rating

and social bookmarking”

Social media are primarily Internet-based tools for sharing and discussing information among human beings. The term most often refers to activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the

construction of words, pictures, videos and audio.

from WikipediaA NOTE: wikipedia itself is a social platform! Everybody can add and build contents for the Encyclopedia

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WHAT IS web 2.0?

Definition

It’s a concept deeply linked to “social media” : a Web 2.0 site may allow users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue as creators of user-generated content in a virtual community, in contrast to websites where people are limited to the passive viewing of content.

Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web.

One of the most famous 2.0 sites is Youtube: the video platform that allows everyone to upload and broadcast their own video. Users can upload, view and share videos. Most of the content on YouTube has been uploaded by individuals, although media corporations including CBS, the BBC, VEVO, Hulu, and other organizations offer some of their material via the site.

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http://youtu.be/Krjt4E4xHyg

An italian user reviews his microwave

http://youtu.be/_viuM_sEOOU

A boy plays a washing machine as a drum!

SOCIAL MEDIA

Understand it with a funny story

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http://youtu.be/MpIOClX1jPE

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MAIN SOCIAL MEDIA CHANNELS

BLOGS

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A blog is a website where entries or posts are listed in chronological order. Blogs commonly allow for readers to provide comments which are posted along with the original entry.

Visit some of these Blogging platforms for creating blogs:

www.blogger.comwww.wordpress.comwww.typepad.com

http://www.recipegirl.com/

http://mashable.com/

a recipe blog

a famous tech blog

Social networks

Social networking services – Facebook, MySpace, Google +, being the most well-known are websites that allow online users to connect and share information with other online users.

www.facebook.com

https://plus.google.com/

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Watch this video to understand social networks:http://youtu.be/6a_KF7TYKVc

Multimedia sharing

Media sharing allows users to upload and share videos and pictures to sharing websites such as Youtube, Vimeo and Flickr. Other users can watch the videos and pictures, comment on them, share them with other users and even embed them on their own websites and blogs:

FLICKR is the biggest picture sharing platform where you can find beautiful pictures from all over the world:www.flickr.com

Vimeo is where you can find great quality videos, made by independent artist and young film producers:www.vimeo.com

YouTube is the most famous video platform, over 800 million unique users visit this site each month, in the same period over 4 billion hours of video are watched, while 72 hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute.www.youtube.com

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Social bookmarking

Social bookmarking allows web users to save, organize and share their bookmarks of web pages on the Internet (vs. their own computers). Social news sites allow users to submit web pages and articles and have other users vote them with the # of votes determining which articles are presented on the social news site.

They are very useful because:1) They allow you to save all your favorite links, categorized according to your needs2) You can discover new trends and understand what is hot on the internet

www.digg.com

www.delicious.com

www.reddit.com

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeBmvDpVbWc

microblogging

Microblogging is a form of blogging where users provide brief updates (often on a frequent basis throughout the day) and publish them on microblogging platforms. You’ve probably heard of Twitter, which is a Microblogging tool. Microbloggers can submit their updates via the web itself or via text messages, instant message, or even email.

Microblogging is very easy and fast: for this reason it is becoming the self press office of many politicians and celebrities. Today, many famous people have a Twitter account and millions of followers.

The most known platforms are:

Twitter: www.twitter.comTumblr: www.tumblr.com

In China this is very popular sina weibo:http://www.weibo.com/

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practice:

create your account in 5 minutes

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Learning on YouTube

On youtube you can find an infinite variety of courses: it is the most used platform to share knowledge freely. Next time you want to learn something, consider visiting YouTube!For example you can find:

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Guitar Lessons Cooking spaghetti & meatballs Repairing a chairhttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=guitar

+lesson&page=&utm_source=opensearchhttp://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spaghetti

+meatballs&oq=spaghetti+meat&gs_l=youtube.3.0.0i19l9j0i5i19.31679.40971.0.42189.22.16.3.3.3.1.397.2

221.11j2j0j3.16.0...0.0...1ac.1.rnVvLpi9rmI

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=repair+chair&oq=repair+cha&gs_l=youtube.

3.3.0i19l8j0i5i19l2.64204.74672.0.77576.10.9.0.1.1.0.127.753.8j1.9.0...0.0...1ac.1.EBlbKDGwFTY

create your account

The best way to understand how to make a YouTube account is explained by many videos listed on youtube itself!

Click this link and pick a video to get started now!

http://bit.ly/UUCOUu

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create your twitter account

Twitter is a social networking/blogging site that allows you to update your personal blog and communicate with your online friends via 140-maximum character messages, or "tweets," that describe your current status.

You can follow your friends and update them when you change your “status”. You can share your thoughts, links, suggestions with your followers.

It’s very useful to be updated in real time from Politicians, News Corporations, Television and Celebrities: just sign up and start to follow the people you are interested in! Right now many famous people have a twitter account!

Go to www.Twitter.com and sign up now!

If you need an help, here is a quick video guide: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkWL985S95E

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