The social media and connectivity

SOCIAL MEDIA AND
CONNECTIVITY

What is
social
media?
• Social media refer to
mediated technologies that
put forward communication
(Fuchs 2017).
• The platforms provision
sharing of ideas and other
innovations.
• Applications that form
primary component of
technology (Miller et al.
2016).

Development of
internet
• Interconnected networks in
United States had placed the
idea of internet (Greenwood,
Perrin and Duggan 2016).
• Internet was a search tool at
that time in the early 1980s
and 1990s.
• Evolutions brought in
connections and interactions
within users with use of
internet connections (Tuten
and Solomon 2017).