Social Media. History of social media. SNS. Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship (boyd & Ellison) Technological evolution & genres. The History and Evolution of Social Media. Social media has become an integral part of modern society. There are general social networks with user bases larger than the population of most countries. There are niche sites for virtually every special interest out there. There are sites to share photos, videos, status updates, sites for meeting new people and sites to connect with old friends. It seems there are social solutions to just about every need. In this article, we’ll review the history and evolution of social media from its humble beginnings to the present day. Precursors to Social Media Usernets Usenet systems were first conceived of in 1979 by Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis.
Usenets have no centralized server or dedicated administrator, setting them apart from most BBSs and forums. Group sites such as Google Groups and Yahoo! BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems) The first BBSs came online in the late 70s. While there were legitimate BBSs, most were at least somewhat involved in illicit, illegal, or other shady practices. Online Services. Learning. Hanging Out, Messing Around, and Geeking Out. Definitions. Users of the world, unite! The challenges and opportunities of Social Media (Kaplan & Haenlein) Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship (boyd & Ellison) Reading. Social Reading. How Do You Solve a Problem Like Twitterature? Reading and Theorizing “Print” Technologies in the Age of Social Media. Printer-friendly version E-Mail This Page Pamela Ingleton, McMaster University Abstract: This paper considers the intersection of print and social media technologies, particularly in the publication, promotion and critical reception of Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less.
In April of 2010, at the Northeast Modern Language Association (NeMLA) conference in Montreal, Quebec, I presented a paper1 on Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books in Twenty Tweets or Less, a Penguin novelty book composed by nineteen-year-old college students Alexander Aciman and Emmett Rensin, released in December 2009, which aims to condense over eighty literary works into series of tweets. The personal and unexpected interaction with Twitterature co-author Emmett Rensin described above serves here as the impetus for further study of the constellatory relationship between new and especially social media, academia and (print) publication. This paper is divided into four sections. Digital Reading. Digital Reading Spaces: How Expert Readers Handle Books, The Web and Electronic Paper - Terje Hillesund.