What counts as 'social media'?

I was recently attending social media workshops. At the very beginning, we were asked to list all social media we know. We were answering one by one and each person had to add something that was not listed yet. read more

Criticisms of social media range from criticisms of the ease of use of specific platforms and their capabilities, disparity of information available, issues with trustworthiness and reliability of information presented, the impact of social media use on an individual's concentration, ownership of media content, and the meaning of interactions created by social media. read more

Social networking is really a subcategory of social media. The easiest way to understand the difference between social media and social networking is by thinking about the terms "media" and "networking" separately. read more