International Law

Making sense of social media

On a post to the Online Spin blog Cory Treffiletti breaks down social media:

Social media can be a bit daunting if you don?t take a moment to make sense of it all. Each week there are more companies being funded and more mergers and acquisitions taking place as companies attempt to make sense of it all, but sometimes you want them to (quoting the Talking Heads) ?Stop Making Sense? and just help us understand what?s going on here.

To understand the landscape you need to break social media down into its elemental pieces. As I can see it, social media as a blanket term is the one category that overlaps the most with other categories in emerging media, further making it difficult to sort through. That being said, I think you can break social media down into four primary categories:

Social Networks

Social Applications

Citizen Journalism

Virtual Worlds

Read more here.

Full post as published by Freedom to Differ on February 29, 2008 (boomark / email).