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How Twitter Became a Disease - Social Networks, Information Theory and the Viral Consequence for Social and Digital Media

Published on 2009-02-25 04:00:00

In the non-conserved spread information that is received by a node or a users will continue to experience the content or information even as it is transmitted to another node or user. What is interesting about this model to social media networks is that the Non-Conserved Spread Model is extremely suitable for explaining the transmission of infectious diseases. The point here is that information in social media networks like twitter behaves like infectious diseases and in such the information/con

When Social Media becomes the Message - Fragmentation of Identity in the Age of Social Media

Published on 2009-02-13 04:00:00

Social media excels at connection people but only by specialising. By this I mean that people connect via social media not on whether they actually would like/dislike people in an everyday environment but by what they have in common. Be it an interest in stamp collection, technology or music, social media connects because of a shared specialisation between users. In the case of social media it can be the media it they have in common. Social Media connects people because of Social Media – not b

Twitter vs. Google News Search in the World of New Media: The event of DJ Khaled and Power of the TwitterSphere

Published on 2009-02-11 04:00:00

This comes down to defining events vs. news. If news is a summary of events that has happened filtered through the perception of a small number of individuals then the Google search provides news for users. If news is an event generated by user participation then Twitter offers the right platform for User Generated News. The problem with User Generated News at the moment is the information overload factor. If it is possible to let bottom-up approaches distil the information for individual users