Who coined the term “web 2.0”?

With web 2.0 being introduced in the new millennium, there was the absence of any form of internet platform prior.

Social media is an environment in which information is passed from one person to another along social connections, to create a distributed discussion or community.

Social media represents “the technologies or applications that people use in developing and maintaining their social networking sites and involves the posting of multimedia information".

Since at least 2004, the internet, and more specifically the web, has witnessed a notorious and controversial shift away from the model of the static web page towards a social web or Web 2.0 model where the possibilities of users to interact with the web have multiplied.

Social media “describes a specific set of internet-based, networked communication platforms".

Web 2.0 has three distinguishing features: it is easy to use, it facilitates sociality, and it provides users with free publishing and production platforms that allow them to upload content in any form.

Social media enable the convergence of the three modes of sociality (cognition, communication, cooperation) in an integrated sociality.

Big data “refers to things one can do at a large scale that cannot be done at a smaller one, to extract new insights or create new forms of value”.