Social Media: Defining, Developing, and Divining.
What is a social medium, and how may one moderate, isolate, and influence communicative processes within? Although scholars assume an inherent understanding of social media based on extant technology, there is no commonly accepted definition of what social mediaare, both functionally and theoretical...
| Publicado en: | Atlantic Journal of Communication Vol. 23; no. 1; pp. 46 - 66 |
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