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social media
The online forms of communicating that any individual can employ, which include blogs, microblogs such as Twitter and social networking sites such as Facebook. Contrast with "industrial media,"...
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Definition: social media
The online forms of communicating that any individual can employ, which include blogs, microblogs such as Twitter and social networking sites such as Facebook. Contrast with "industrial media," which refer to professionally produced radio, TV and film. See new media, social networking site, blog, Twitter, Facebook and podcast.
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