Chapter 8.8, Problem 8.1ARQ

Explanation of Solution

Social Media:

Social media is creating and sharing the information, career interests, ideas and other forms of expression through networks and virtual communities.

• Social media generally used to creates the applications that allow people to share content quickly and efficiently.
• The main purpose of social media is to communicate people, which are groups of people related by a common interest via networks.
• Some examples of social media are as follows:
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Whatsapp
  • Instagram

Communities of practices:

• Communities of practices are a group of people who share their thoughts, ideas, passion and learn how to do it in better as they interact regularly.
• It can evolve naturally because of the members’ common interest in a specific area, or communities of practices can be created intentionally with the goal of attaining knowledge related to a particular field.
• Community of practice is used to develop each person personally and professionally.

Social media information system (SMIS):

• Social media is uses the info technology to support the distributing of data between networks of users and it enables people to form group of people related by a similar interest.
• Social media information system is an info-system that supports the distributing of data between networks of users.
• The social media cannot exist without social media information system.
• SMIS consists of three roles. They are:
  • Users
    • Organizations or companies that choose to support a presence on one or more social media sites.
  • Communities
    • Group of people with common interest in order to communicate and share ideas.
  • Social media providers
    • It enables the making of social relationships among people with similar interests or social networks.

Social media provider:

• It enables the making of social relationships among people with similar interests or social networks.
• Some of the examples of social media providers are Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, and so on.

Social network:

• Social network is a website that allows the people to share information, ideas, images and videos through the network.
• This type of relationship and sharing is called as social media.
• Social network is also referred as a virtual community or profile site.

Three SMIS organization roles:

Social media information system is an info system that supports the distributing of data among networks of users. SMIS consists of three roles. They are:

• Users
• Communities
• Social media provider

Users:

• Individual or organizations both are included in users, because both use social media sites to form social relationships.
• More than 80 percent of people access social media through mobile phones and 76 percent of people access social media through internet...