Where the term "social media" comes from?
Hi, My name is Davide and I'm trying to reconstruct the history of the terms linked with Web 2.0. I wondering: where the term "social media" come from? Can you help me? Thanks Davide -- ************************************************************* http://www.tecnoetica.it/ http://www.puntobeta.net/ skype: davide.bennato http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidebennato
-----Original Message----- From: Peter Timusk [mailto:ptimusk@sympatico.ca] Sent: September-17-10 5:23 AM To: 'Davide Bennato' Subject: RE: [Air-L] Where the term "social media" comes from? This book is from 1999 Social Navigation of Information Space (Computer Supported Cooperative Work) Alan J. Munro (Editor), Kristina Höök (Editor), David Benyon (Editor) (?: Springer, (October 14, 1999) Briefly: It is about using the web trails of others like "amazon recommendations" based on what others also buy. Peter Timusk B.Math statistics. BA legal studies Legal studies of the Information Age Vice President Computers for Communites School work blog http://notebook.webpagex.org Some papers www.webpagex.org -----Original Message----- From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Davide Bennato Sent: September-17-10 4:45 AM To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: [Air-L] Where the term "social media" comes from? Hi, My name is Davide and I'm trying to reconstruct the history of the terms linked with Web 2.0. I wondering: where the term "social media" come from? Can you help me? Thanks Davide -- ************************************************************* http://www.tecnoetica.it/ http://www.puntobeta.net/ skype: davide.bennato http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidebennato _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
I read yours as a question about terminology and less about concepts, & since so far most of the answers have appeared to be about concepts i thought i'd weigh in about terms. i often investigate terminological questions (in English) by reference to the Oxford English Dictionary, which tries to track words by their earliest appearances, and etymology/origin if known. It does not yet have an entry for "social media" (not necessarily indicative of anything, other than its likely being a fairly new term). I've been looking into some related questions recently, and found these interesting entries under two closely related terms. note the amazingly early use of "social network." *social network* *n.* a system of social interactions and relationships; a group of people who are socially connected to one another; (now also) a social networking website; the users of such a website collectively; cf. *social networking* n. *1845* J. B. GOUGH *Autobiogr.* I. 35, I again became involved in a dissipated *social network. *1958* *Los Angeles Times* 4 Dec. IV. 16/1 It's not where you live, it's the ‘social network’ to which you belong which determines your drinking habits. *1993* M. IGNATIEFF *Scar Tissue* 65 Patients with a strong will to live and a supportive social network are likely to survive traumatic illness better than those who are fatalistic and alone. *1998* *Business Wire* (Nexis) 26 Jan., Visitors can form online communities by exchanging information and experiences in chat rooms, forums, and online social networks. *2007* *Guardian* 17 Nov. 17/5 The hundreds of millions of people using the booming..social networks such as MySpace, Bebo and Facebook. *social networking* *n.* the use or establishment of social networks or connections; (now *esp.*) the use of websites which enable users to interact with one another, find and contact people with common interests, etc. (freq. *attrib.*). *1973* *Public Admin. Rev.* *33* 529/1 Through the process of consciousness raising and *social networking, he becomes aware of the organization and environmental forces impinging upon him. *1998* *Boston Globe* (Nexis) 24 May E4 Venture capitalists ponied up money for..a provider of Internet-based social networking services. *2008* *Nature* 10 Jan. 128/3 Social networking sites such as MySpace have allowed artists to promote their music without a record label intermediary. another source is wikipedia, which does not list or quote any uses prior to 2007: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media with some google searching (this plus corpus searching will probably give you the best results), i can find some uses in 2007, e.g.: http://www.webpronews.com/blogtalk/2007/06/29/the-definition-of-social-media DG On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 4:45 AM, Davide Bennato <d.bennato@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi, My name is Davide and I'm trying to reconstruct the history of the terms linked with Web 2.0. I wondering: where the term "social media" come from? Can you help me?
Thanks
Davide
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the term social media has been around for ages, at least according to google scholar, which went back to 1997, then before that in theology/liturgy studies to quite far back.... Social media has something apparently to do with some Christian right in its early uses the technological use of the term seems to have really taken off in 2004-5 according to http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=social+media&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=S... social software was coined by ross mayfield i think, though it may have been someone else. one of the founders of the social software alliance that i was part of.... It came before social media by popularity for 2 years as per: http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22social+software%22&btnG=Search+Arc... personally, i tend not to buy into the 'who coined the term' and arguments of origination. In this case... I don't think it is even that important. Jeremy Hunsinger Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.tmttlt.com You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. --Mark Twain
i'm not seeing the christian right uses of the actual phrase "social media" in google scholar, nor any references prior to 2004 that appear genuine. there is a reference to *The Social Media Marketing Book* from 2000, but just thanks to excellent gscholar metatdata--that book was actually published in 2009. gnews "social media" search from 1990-present showing no uses prior to 2004: http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_user_ldate=1990&as_user_hdate=2010&q... gcholar exact phrase "social media" search 1900-2000, with 7000 hits but none of them as far as i can tell actually including the phrase "social media" unless there is wonky metadata that has miscategorized the book: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=&num=100&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=s... can you give links to some of the earlier references? On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:23 AM, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
the term social media has been around for ages, at least according to google scholar, which went back to 1997, then before that in theology/liturgy studies to quite far back.... Social media has something apparently to do with some Christian right in its early uses
the technological use of the term seems to have really taken off in 2004-5 according to
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=social+media&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=S...
social software was coined by ross mayfield i think, though it may have been someone else. one of the founders of the social software alliance that i was part of.... It came before social media by popularity for 2 years as per:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22social+software%22&btnG=Search+Arc...
personally, i tend not to buy into the 'who coined the term' and arguments of origination. In this case... I don't think it is even that important.
Jeremy Hunsinger Political Science Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech
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i meant "or." actually, i can't get into the article, but it does seem as if there is an interesting outlier (i think more as the adj. "social" modifying an adj. "media," rather than the noun-phrase "social media"... depending on how exact one wants to be, but anyway, the phrase "it would seem essential for careful pretesting to be done on *social* *media* messages" occurs in Problems and Challenges in Social Marketing Paul N. Bloom and William D. Novelli The Journal of Marketing<http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jmarketing> Vol. 45, No. 2 (Spring, 1981), pp. 79-88 (article consists of 10 pages) Published by: American Marketing Association<http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublisher?publisherCode=ama> Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1251667 On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:33 AM, David Golumbia <dgolumbia@gmail.com>wrote:
i'm not seeing the christian right uses of the actual phrase "social media" in google scholar, nor any references prior to 2004 that appear genuine. there is a reference to *The Social Media Marketing Book* from 2000, but just thanks to excellent gscholar metatdata--that book was actually published in 2009.
gnews "social media" search from 1990-present showing no uses prior to 2004:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_user_ldate=1990&as_user_hdate=2010&q...
gcholar exact phrase "social media" search 1900-2000, with 7000 hits but none of them as far as i can tell actually including the phrase "social media" unless there is wonky metadata that has miscategorized the book:
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=&num=100&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=s...
can you give links to some of the earlier references?
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:23 AM, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
the term social media has been around for ages, at least according to google scholar, which went back to 1997, then before that in theology/liturgy studies to quite far back.... Social media has something apparently to do with some Christian right in its early uses
the technological use of the term seems to have really taken off in 2004-5 according to
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=social+media&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=S...
social software was coined by ross mayfield i think, though it may have been someone else. one of the founders of the social software alliance that i was part of.... It came before social media by popularity for 2 years as per:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22social+software%22&btnG=Search+Arc...
personally, i tend not to buy into the 'who coined the term' and arguments of origination. In this case... I don't think it is even that important.
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not christian right as in "the christian right" 'social media' but right as in theology. so you search for 'social media' and theology in google scholar or google books and you are going to see many references to the social media of scriptures, masses, and such. I'm showing around 80. and if you choose other terms than Theology, you'll find more. On Sep 22, 2010, at 10:33 AM, David Golumbia wrote:
i'm not seeing the christian right uses of the actual phrase "social media" in google scholar, nor any references prior to 2004 that appear genuine. there is a reference to *The Social Media Marketing Book* from 2000, but just thanks to excellent gscholar metatdata--that book was actually published in 2009.
gnews "social media" search from 1990-present showing no uses prior to 2004: http://news.google.com/archivesearch?as_user_ldate=1990&as_user_hdate=2010&q...
gcholar exact phrase "social media" search 1900-2000, with 7000 hits but none of them as far as i can tell actually including the phrase "social media" unless there is wonky metadata that has miscategorized the book: http://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_q=&num=100&btnG=Search+Scholar&as_epq=s...
can you give links to some of the earlier references?
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 10:23 AM, jeremy hunsinger <jhuns@vt.edu> wrote:
the term social media has been around for ages, at least according to google scholar, which went back to 1997, then before that in theology/liturgy studies to quite far back.... Social media has something apparently to do with some Christian right in its early uses
the technological use of the term seems to have really taken off in 2004-5 according to
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=social+media&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&btnG=S...
social software was coined by ross mayfield i think, though it may have been someone else. one of the founders of the social software alliance that i was part of.... It came before social media by popularity for 2 years as per:
http://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=%22social+software%22&btnG=Search+Arc...
personally, i tend not to buy into the 'who coined the term' and arguments of origination. In this case... I don't think it is even that important.
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