2. Description of the social media
industry/interactive media
0 Social media refers to interaction among people in which
they create, share, and/or exchange information and ideas
in virtual communities and networks. Andreas Kaplan and
Michael Heinlein define social media as "a group of
Internet-based applications that build on the ideological
and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow
the creation and exchange of user-generated content.
0 Interactive media normally refers to products and services
on digital computer-based systems which respond to the
user’s actions by presenting content such as
text, graphics, animation, video, audio, games, etc.
3. How is interactive media linked
computer games
0 Interactive media can be link to computer games because
in the interactive media you get design different computer
game and also in the interactive media you get do your
own creation.
0 Also that the Interactive media is related to the concepts
interaction design, new media, interactivity, human
computer interaction, and here are the list:
0 cyber culture, digital culture, and includes specific cases
such as, for example, interactive television, interactive
narrative, interactive advertising, algorithmic
art, videogames, social media, ambient intelligence, virtual
reality and augmented reality.
4. What size of the social media
industry
0 Well it is worth several billion pounds annually and
employs around about 43,000 people representing
nearly 22% of the total creative media industries.
Interactive media is not so much a sector as a
correction as its creation and in increasing becoming
part of everyday object across the sectors of the
industry in general,
5. Twitter companies
0 Twitter is an online social networking and micro
blogging service that enables users to send and read
tweets, which are text messages limited to 140
characters. Registered users can read and post tweets
but unregistered users can only read them.
6. Ownership of Twitter
0 Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack
Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass and
by July 2006, the site was launched. The service
rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with 500 million
registered users in 2012, who posted 340 million
tweets per day. The service also handled 1.6 billion
search probes per day. Twitter is now one of the ten
most visited websites, and has been described as the
SMS of the Internet
7. Facebook companies
0 Facebook is an online social networking service. Its
name comes from the colloquial name for the book
given to students at the start of the academic year by
some American university administrations to help
students get to know one another.
8. Ownership of Facebook
0 The owners for the Facebook are:
0 Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark
Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard
University students Eduardo Savarin, Andrew
McCollum, Dustin Muscovite and Chris Hughes. The
founders had initially limited the website's membership to
students of the University of Harvard, but later expanded it
to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford
University. It gradually added support for students at
various other universities before it opened to high-school
students, and eventually to anyone aged 13 and over.
Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13
years old to become a registered user of the website.
9. BBC red button companies
0 BBC Red Button is a branding used for digital
interactive television services provided by the
BBC, and broadcast in the United Kingdom. The
services replaced Ceefax, the BBC's analogue teletext
service, and is only available via digital television
receivers. The service can be accessed via Digital
terrestrial television, satellite television and cable
television .The Red Button branding is no longer used
within the BBC's own website.
10. How is twitter use in the
interactive media
0 During the event, Twitter usage increased from 20,000
tweets per day to 60,000. so the interactive media
asked Twitter co-founder Biz Stone about it in August
2011. and they actually did that to make a high
population.