Social media are a collection of tools or online spaces available to help individuals and their information and communication needs. Social media supports the people need for social interaction, using internet, and web-based technology for transforming broadcast media monologues. Andrew Kaplan and Michael Haenlein describe social media as “A group of internet-based applications that build on the ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0 and that allows the creation and exchange of user-generated content”. Social media are known to have three components; concept which is art, information, and meme. Media which are physical, electronic, and verbal. Last is a social interface which is community engagement, social viral, electronic broadcasting or syndication and other physical media such as print. The difference between social media and industrial media is that social media are usually inexpensive and has accessible tools that enable anyone to publish or access information. Industrial media usually need a lot of resources to publish information. One thing that both social, and industrial media share is the capability to reach small or large audiences, for example, you can make a blog post or start a television show and can reach zero or a million people. There are several different forms of social media like weblogs, social blogs, wikis, podcast, pictures, and videos, to name a few. Teachers that use this method with their students are constructivist because they see their student as active learners and want them to interpret and process what they receive.
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www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_media
www.sbinfocanada.about.com/od/social/media/g/social media
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