Category: Social Media Platform (page 2)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…