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'''Social Age<ref>Azua, Maria (2009) The Social Factor, IBM Press, ISBN 978-0-13-701890-1</ref>''' encompasses both societal and technological changes succeeding the [[Information Age]]. It is divergent from the Information Age as it gives more prominence to social factors when adopting and/or extending technology and information. It further broadens the definition of [[Attention Age]] because the Social Age focuses on many forms of societal interactions including collaboration and sharing.
'''Social Age<ref name="social-factor">Azua, Maria (2009) The Social Factor, IBM Press, {{ISBN|978-0-13-701890-1}}</ref>''' encompasses both societal and technological changes succeeding the [[Information Age]].


It is divergent from the Information Age as it gives more prominence to social factors when adopting and/or extending technology and information.<ref name="social-factor"/> It further broadens the definition of Attention Age because the Social Age focuses on many forms of societal interactions including online relationships, collaboration and sharing.
==Contributing Factors==
Some of the examples include. President Barack Obama's campaign,<ref>How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks’ Power, Available: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/10/business/media/10carr.html</ref><ref>Obama Social, Available: http://www.slideshare.net/saydowin/obama-social</ref>

==Taxonomy==
Social age manifests in many forms and so far we have seen only its inception. Below is some of the well known areas that of social age applications:
* [[Social network]]s - any interaction between individuals or organizations, e.g., [[Google+]], [[LinkedIn]], [[Facebook]] and [[Twitter]]
* [[Social media]] - any form of media for social interaction
:* [[Wiki]] - e.g., [[Wikipedia]]
:* [[Blog]] - e.g., [[Blogger (service)]],
:* [[Micro-blogging]] - e.g., [[Twitter]], [[Tumblr]]
:* Video sharing - e.g., [[YouTube]], [[Metacafe]], [[Dailymotion]]
* [[Social marketing]] - any form of marking through society
:* [[Amazon.com]] recommendations<ref>G. Linden, B. Smith, J. York, "Amazon.com recommendations: item-to-item collaborative filtering," IEEE Internet Computing, vol.7, no.1, Jan/Feb 2003, pp. 76-80.</ref>
* Social clouds - any form of recommendation by community, more popular ones will survive
:* [[Social news]] - e.g., [[Digg]], [[Reddit]]
:* [[Social bookmarking]] - e.g., [[StumbleUpon]], [[Pinterest]], [[Delicious (website)]]
* Community cloud computing - where community put computing resources to perform a tack that helps community
:* [[Peer-to-peer]] computing
:* [[SETI]]
:* [[World Community Grid]]


==References==
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[[Category:Hyperreality]]
[[Category:Information Age]]
[[Category:Information Age]]
[[Category:Web 2.0]]
[[Category:Sociology of technology]]
[[Category:Technology in society]]

Latest revision as of 07:36, 30 September 2023

Social Age[1] encompasses both societal and technological changes succeeding the Information Age.

It is divergent from the Information Age as it gives more prominence to social factors when adopting and/or extending technology and information.[1] It further broadens the definition of Attention Age because the Social Age focuses on many forms of societal interactions including online relationships, collaboration and sharing.

References

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  1. ^ a b Azua, Maria (2009) The Social Factor, IBM Press, ISBN 978-0-13-701890-1