Internet today for dummies: RSS and Social Media
Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter seem to dominate the high-tech world of the internet superhighway. Many people wonder, what is it that attracts so many users to these websites? (Facebook hit 321.1 million users by 2009.) But social media is much larger than that- it seems that a [...]
Internet today for dummies: RSS and Social Media
Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter seem to dominate the high-tech world of the internet superhighway. Many people wonder, what is it that attracts so many users to these websites? (Facebook hit 321.1 million users by 2009.) But social media is much larger than that- it seems that a major division of the internet can be catered to to fit any user’s needs.
There are so many different mediums of social media. The most popular of them would be blogging, social networking, emailing, and video and photo sharing. Many users utilize these tools daily, either viewing or posting their own personal content for any other user to see.
Many internet user’s subscribe and receive mail on a news-based site, such as www.yahoo.com or www.msn.com. These sites, amongst many, allow for RSS (Really Simple Syndication) which is defined as “aggregators allowing web users to create their own content assembled from the Internet’s limitless supply of material” according to Stanley J. Baran’s Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture. What does that really mean? An example would be MyMSN.
Let’s use John as our example. When John signs into his MSN page, he will be taken to his homepage where he can view content he chose- which news feeds and interest categories he is interested in are the ones that appear on the page. This is RSS. On many online journalism sites, there is the RSS logo that, when clicked, will subscribe you to that specific publication.
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