SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS ENCYCLOPEDIA
9GAG and self representation
9GAG is a media sharing website where users gather to upload and share mostly user generated content through the form of memes. It was created by Ray Chan, a Hong-Kong based business man in 2008 as a platform for users…
Alternate Reality: The World of Minecraft
As a result of the emergence of computers in the early 1970s, people searched for various methods of entertainment. Following this revolutionary invention, computer programmers developed video games as a new source of amusement. Games quickly took over and became…
CLUB PENGUIN: Un Mode d’emploi pour les enfants?
Lorsque je me rappelle ma cinquième année à l’école primaire, un de mes souvenirs les plus mémorables sera toujours la salle d’ordinateurs au troisième étage. C’est dans ce local que j’ai joué pour la première fois à Adibou, que j’ai…
Data Collection, Gender, and the Hive
The most recent form of technological development in the private sphere has been its effects on dating behaviours through mobile dating apps. Innovative app Tinder paved the way for singles to meet other people in their area, swiping on eligible…
DIY a Whole New Life on Pinterest
Pinterest has been described as a “visual discovery tool” and was founded by a former Google employee, Ben Silbermann as well as Evan Sharp and Paul Sciarra. Much like searching through google images, Pinterest is a social media site that…
Grindr: “No Fats, Fems & Asians”
By: Michael Chaar / COMS 427 The social media platform in which I will be discussing throughout this paper is the notoriously used gay dating application, Grindr. The app first launched on March 25, 2009, and is declared as the…
Heste-nettet.dk, back on greener pastures.
Summary Heste-Nettet.dk (“The Horse-Net”) is a niche sectoral platform (van Dijck et al., 2018, p. 8), created specifically to serve the online horse-riding community of Denmark (Heste-Nettet, n.d.-b). It’s an old-school web-portal, encompassing most types of social media that van…
Jswipe: Finding a Mate to Make Bubbie Proud
In the search for love, lust, and happiness many people turn towards dating apps. These media platforms allow users to create a profile with a combination of photos and text. The profiles that they create ultimately function as ads to…
Lose It!
Lose It! – Social Media Platform Critical Profile Lose It! is a cell phone application dedicated to assisting users in maintaining a healthier lifestyle by having the ability to track their food and activity consumption during the day. Essentially, users…
Love at First Swipe
Technology has brought us so much over the years: phones, cars, computers, the Internet, and the list goes on. One thing that is common to almost all of these inventions is the fact that they can be as good as…
MyFitnessPal
MyFitnessPal The creator of the website MyFitnessPal, Mike Lee, came up with the idea to create MyFitnessPal since he wanted a practical and simple way to take note of daily intake of food in order to help him and…
Sims – Play With Life
A Critical Profile by Alex Godbout Imagine: you’re 14 years old. It’s Saturday night. You’re at home with your best friend. It’s 2009. You’ve just watched Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. It just came out, lucky you. You’re sat in…
Slack: Where Work Happens
History Slack is a cloud-based instant messaging platform developed by Slack Technologies. It is a collaborative software that operates through a proprietary system, meaning that it is a closed-source, non-free computer software for which the publisher retains intellectual property rights…
Social Media Platform Critical Profile – r/Reddit
Creating another self-identification profile on the Internet has now become the norm of many individuals in 2020. Social media platforms gather a variety of information from its users making digital marketing, social profiling, etc. easier. Like many other social media…
SoundCloud
What is it? SoundCloud is a European online audio distribution platform and music sharing founded by Alexander Ljung and Eric Wahlforss in October 2008 (Mahroum, 2016). It was founded in Stockholm, Sweden in 2007 but is currently based in Berlin,…
Tumblr: A Source of Community… Most of the Time
The self-identified blogging platform Tumblr was founded February 1st of 2007 by David Karp. Tumblr combines video, text, photo, audio, and GIFs, allowing users to both post their own content and “reblog” content they enjoy. This function of the site…
Twitch: It’s Hard Work Making It Look So Easy
Twitch is a live streaming video platform founded in 2011 by Justin Kan and Emmett Shear. The platform was originally called Justin.tv, a startup company based in San Francisco which was dedicated to ‘lifestreaming’ someone’s personal life and being able…
Vimeo: The One-Sided Platform
Should I be using YouTube or Vimeo to host my videos? If you google “YouTube versus Vimeo”, you will be presented with an array of pros and cons lists detailing the proper use of each platform, and mainly, what consists the main difference between these seemingly competing video-sharing platforms. This question seems…
Vine: A Critical Social Media Profile
by Saskia Kowalchuk “You aint f*** with me way back when, but how ‘bout now? Now I’m a YouTube compilation” How come, in 2020, “RIP Vine” is much more salient sentiment than “do it for the Vine” was in 2015?…
Welcome to Your Professional Community: LinkedIn
Why LinkedIn? All grand ideas start small and take time to construct. In the case of co-founder Reid Hoffman, his billion-dollar idea started out in the comfort of his living room in 2002 (Potter 2017). The main objective of this…
WW International: The Commodification of Self-Monitoring
Weight Watchers is a subscription based wellness program that was founded in 1963. It developed from weekly support meetings in founder Jean Nidetch’s NYC apartment into WW International, operating in 30 different countries through its app, meetings and personal coaching…
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