Posts Tagged ‘Social Networking Sites’

Putting the Participatory Culture to Work

The “participatory culture” has been defined as a ‘new way of life that lets people create and circulate self-made content such as video, audio, text, and images’.  The culture has been taking shape in the form of popular social networking sites like facebook, flickr, and wikipedia, which have encouraged mass participation and collaboration.  The participatory [...]

Online Communities : Reaping the Inherent Potential

 The cutting edge in technology has enabled cross-cultural communications with online communities gaining prevalence among the masses.The mediums which have been exploited to attract the online users are forums, blogs, podcasts, message boards, wikis and vlogs.The social networking sites which have promoted the growth of online communities and have gained the utmost attention are Orkut, [...]