Learn the meaning of one of the biggest buzzwords of modern times - "social media"
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| Keith: Hi, I’m Keith. |
| Sadia: Hey, and I’m Sadia. |
| Keith: The focus of this lesson is the term, "social media." |
| Sadia: Ahh-- social media! I love this topic. |
| Keith: All right, well why don't you go ahead and explain a little bit about what social media is. |
| Sadia: The term, "social media" refers to the way the public creates content, or information, on the web using publishing technology. |
| Keith: And what's that-- publishing technology? |
| Sadia: All right, well, It's any software or website or other application that allows the user to make something public-- or known to the general population. |
| Keith: What about podcasting then? Is that part of social media? |
| Sadia: Sure it is. Social media includes podcasting, or maybe like videos on YouTube or any other video hosting site, blogs, microblogs like the ones on Twitter-- any information or media created by members of the public-- by non-professionals. |
| Keith: Let me see if I get it. So anything that uses technology to make information-- any information-- public is social media. But what about things like newspapers, television, magazines, and radio? You know, the stuff that my grandfather knew. |
| Sadia: Good question and good point. More traditional forms of media, like newspapers and things - they’re referred to as "industrial media." |
| Keith: Okay. I would imagine that these media outlets, the “industrial media”, they would have to change the way they produce and deliver information to keep up with the breakneck speed at which social media is evolving. |
| Sadia: Very quickly. And I think newspapers like The New York Times and The Washington Post - over the years they’ve begun to kind of pay more and more attention to the digital part of their businesses. |
| Keith: Yeah, I think social media's "claim to fame" is the power it gives to users... |
| Sadia: Definitely. Users seem to have all the power. They create what’s presented. And, I mean, social media has kind of completely shifted the way people get information. |
| Keith: That’s definitely true. I mean, look at Facebook-- it has 100 million users. |
| Sadia: 100 million users, it’s a lot, and many of these 100 million users kind of go beyond the site's basic function of just connecting with people to sharing stories, and blogs, and photos, and other content that they find online or that they maybe make themselves. |
| Keith: Yeah, and some say that social media will cause traditional media to disappear. |
| Sadia: Hmmm... what do you think, listeners? Will social media soon be the ONLY media? |
| Sadia: Let's take a look at the vocabulary for some of this Buzzwords lesson. |
| Sadia: agenda [natural native speed] |
| Keith: agenda [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: schedule |
| Keith: agenda [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: agenda [natural native speed] |
| Keith: social media [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: social media [natural native speed] |
| Keith: Internet-based tools for sharing and discussing |
| information |
| Sadia: social media [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: social media [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: topic [natural native speed] |
| Keith: topic [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: subject |
| Keith: topic [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: topic [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to create [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: to create [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to make |
| Sadia: to create [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: to create [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: to publish [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to publish [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: to make public, to make known on a large scale |
| Keith: to publish [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: to publish [natural native speed] |
| Keith: application [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: application [natural native speed] |
| Keith: a type of computer software |
| Sadia: application [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: application [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: traditional [natural native speed] |
| Keith: traditional [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: belonging to an established pattern |
| Keith: traditional [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: traditional [natural native speed] |
| Keith: content [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: content [natural native speed] |
| Keith: something, usually information, contained within |
| Sadia: content [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: content [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: digital [natural native speed] |
| Keith: digital [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: characterized by computer technology, relating to |
| information stored by numbers |
| Keith: digital [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: digital [natural native speed] |
| Keith: obsolete [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: obsolete [natural native speed] |
| Keith: no longer working or functional |
| Sadia: obsolete [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: obsolete [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: media [natural native speed] |
| Keith: media [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: ways of delivering communication |
| Keith: media [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Sadia: media [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to disappear [natural native speed] |
| Sadia: to disappear [natural native speed] |
| Keith: to clear from view, to go away, to cease to exist |
| Sadia: to disappear [slowly - broken down by syllable] |
| Keith: to disappear [natural native speed] |
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