Social web

with the whole world through “social web" or “web 2.0”. Living in the 21st century we have technology that makes it fairly easy to share anything, thanks to the commodity of it. This is not the only factor for the “social web” to be so popular to an extent it can be seen and taken as a community. A community of people that share and care about a specific thing depending on the website or forum. Due to the fact that it is so easy to share anything in the “social web” people disclose their private

The emergence of social web has changed the World Wide Web. This new concept was introduced in 1996 by Rheingold. In addition of the principle aim of the web that consists of an open access to information, the second generation of Web applications, Web 2.0 applications, has allowed for users to communicate effectively with each other. Hence, the web transformed from a web where most users were consumers passively viewing website (i.e. information) to a more active and participatory actors. Users

Web technology, social media, and “smart phone” allow for a greater sense of independence and self-discovery. As Turkle (2012) suggests, there is a contradiction between connection and disconnection that technology imposes on users. To be tethered is to be connected, but the connection is beyond time and space, meaning being physically absent, but emotionally present. Likewise, Turkle (2012) argues that it is odd that individuals participate in the collective activity while being somewhere else

Something curious is happening on the World Wide Web. It is undergoing a slow transformation from an abstract, chaotic, information web into what I call a social hypertext. Initially, I didn't pay much attention to the Web. After all, it was just a new take on distributed information server systems such as WAIS[8] and Gopher[1]. True, it was easier to use than WAIS, and the ability of Web browsers to display formatted text and graphics with embedded links made it more attractive and engaging than

A Social Web Laced With Poison Mark Mckinnon, vice-president of an international communications consulting firm stated, “Technology and social media have brought power back to the people.” It makes sense that he would possess such a positive view of social media, because his job more or less depends on it. However, the reality is a little less sunshine and rainbows. Social media has undoubtedly changed the way humans can communicate with each other, even making it possible to contact people in a

from all relevant data sources that can provide answers to questions that companies set out to answer with BDA. One such source is data generated by social media (Schatten, Ševa, & Đurić, 2015). As such, this paper will review the findings of Schatten, Ševa, & Đurić’s(2015) article on how social web mining and big data can be utilized within the social

Development of Web 2.0 and Social Media Introduction Web 2.0 refers to the term given to the second generation World Wide Web, which is majorly focused on giving people the ability to collaborate and share information online. The transition from the old static web pages to the more dynamic and interactive web pages are what are referred to as web 2.0, this websites are well organized and are geared towards delivering of web applications to the users. Web 2.0 brings other improved functionalities

critique was “Narcissism and Social Networking Web Sites” written by Laura E. Buffardi and W. Keith Campbell from the University of Georgia. This article is based on an experiment that was taken place to prove whether others could perceive a narcissistic individual as a narcissist through observing their social media sites. This experiment was a correlational type of study. The experimenters’ goal was to analyze whether there was any correlation or connection between the web page owner being a narcissist

Defining Social Networking Sites Online networking can 't be comprehended without first characterizing Web 2.0: a term that portrays another path in which end clients utilize the World Wide Web, a spot where substance is constantly adjusted by all administrators in a sharing and community way (Kaplan and Haenlein 2010). "It has much more to do with what individuals are doing with the innovation than the innovation itself, for rather than just recovering data, clients are currently making and devouring

Introduction The "groundswell", which is the term now being used for online social technologies, such as blogs, social networking sites like MySpace, and user-generated sites like YouTube and numerous other online communities now common on the Web, is making a dramatic impact on the way many organizations are conducting their marketing strategies. These online social networking sites have enabled the power to shift from the companies to the customer, this shift in power is being termed "customercentric"