The first course article reading I did, "Riding the Waves of Web 2.0" was a pretty interesting perspective of exactly what Web 2.0 means to online users today. The authors Susannah Fox and Mary Madden agreed although it has become a buzzword term, Web 2.0 is not easily defined. The concept of Web 2.0 being an interactive online community has become more developed and common since this article was released in 2006.
Until our first weekly course voicethread and reading this article, I did not clearly see how Web 2.0 was any different from social media platforms. In many ways, they are quite similar subjects to discuss. However, social media applications seem to have been derived as Web 2.0 became an easily accessed and collaborative environment for users to communicate and exchange online content.
Web 1.0 was an earlier, stagnant version of online information that really did not facilitate much production or updating of the posted content. Currently Web 2.0 promotes interactive user features all as part of our vast online community... even this emerging blog and my newly active Twitter account are now both Web 2.0 elements!
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