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The emergence of social media roots in Tim O’Reilly states when he introduced the term ‘Web 2.0’ in 2005. He claimed that ‘Web 2.0’ denotes actual changes whereby users’ collective intelligence co-create the value of platforms like Google, Amazon, Wikipedia or Craigslist in a “community of connected users” (O’Reilly & Battelle, 2009). In these days, Importance of virtual social networks in different fields including information diffusion, business, social activities, political campaign, cultural heritage, etc. is clear in as much as we cannot imagine the world without such these tools.
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Goudarzi, M. (2017). Cyber-political Behavior of Iranian People in Virtual Social Networks. In: Friedrichsen, M., Kamalipour, Y. (eds) Digital Transformation in Journalism and News Media. Media Business and Innovation. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27786-8_21
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