The Emergence Machine

Social Media

abstract · COMMUNICATION/MEDIA · Level 8 · E10

E10Institutions

Each concept here is mapped to its prerequisites — the ideas you'd need first to understand it — all the way down to four foundations: Space, Time, Energy, Pattern. Click any prerequisite to drill down, or scroll for the chain graph.

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Emergence definition

Social media is a platform for sharing information and interacting with others, emerging from the dynamic patterns of digital communication and the flow of information through digital channels.

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Wiktionary senses

External reference — all senses of the word “social media” on Wiktionary. This atlas concept maps to only the slice of meaning relevant to the prerequisite graph.

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Source: Wiktionary — “social media”. Content available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Historical origin

Origin word
social media
Origin language
English

Prerequisite chain

Possible path of this concept down to the fundamental substrate.

thisfoundationsL8L7L6L5L3L2L1L0Social MediaMediaCommunicationBehaviorDigitalCellChannelMeaning… intermediate l…EnvironmentFormFormalInformationActionChangeMatterQualityEnergyPatternSpaceTimeE1 concrete → E14 abstract

Neighborhood

Direct prerequisites above, concepts that depend on this one below.

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Prerequisites

What you need to understand first.

  • Digital L3 (requires)
    social media is a digital platform
  • Media L7 (requires) COMMUNICATION/MEDIA sense
    A concept relating to social media, encompassing its essential characteristics, properties, and relationships within its domain.

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