Social media describes online technologies and practices that people use to share opinions, experiences, and media. It takes many forms including text, images, audio, and video. Social media is disruptive as people are moving away from traditional media to user-generated content and social networking sites. Some key terms associated with social media include blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking, folksonomy, narrowcasting, mashups, and social tagging.

2. “ Social Media is disruptive: The-people-formerly-known-as-the-audience…are rapidly migrating away from the old-school mainstream media, away from the centrally controlled and managed model of broadcast media” Stowe Boyde, Feb 2007

3. Social Bookmarking Collective Intelligence Folksonomy Narrowcasting Mash ups Produsers Peer-to-peer Podcasts RSS Blogs Social networking Social Tagging Tagging User Generated Content Virtual Worlds Wiki Web 2.0 The Social Web – some terms used

5. Blogs Wikis Podcasts RSS Mashups Social Networks

6. Del.icio.us – social bookmarking

7. Tag Clouds

14. Amazon.uk’s warehouse

17. Alex’s Facebook profile on Doonesbury

20. Ordsall Community Reporters with Gordon Burns at the BBC,behind the scenes at NW Tonight reporting and journalism course using film and story

24. The Measure of a Life …

27. it was a bit like being in a silent movie … you could see over the handlebars … it made me look at things that I’d taken for granted in a different way …