Analyzing Social Media Networks with NodeXL

Chapter 2

Social Media

New Technologies of Collaboration

Outline

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Social Media Defined

2.3 Social Media Design Framework

2.3.1 Size of Producer and Consumer Population

2.3.2 Pace of Interaction

2.3.3 Genre of Basic Elements

2.3.4 Control of Basic Elements

2.3.5 Types of Connections

2.3.6 Retention of Content

2.4 Social Media Examples

2.4.1 Asynchronous Threaded Conversation

2.4.2 Synchronous Conversation

2.4.3 World Wide Web

2.4.4 Collaborative Authoring

2.4.5 Blogs and Podcasts

2.4.6 Social Sharing

2.4.7 Social Networking Services

2.4.8 Online Markets and Production

2.4.9 Idea Generation

2.4.10 Virtual Worlds

2.4.11 Mobile-Based Services

2.5 Practitioner’s Summary

2.6 Researcher’s Agenda

2.1 Introduction

One of the ...