Getting acquainted with social networks and apps: Social Media in 2017
| Pages | 1-6 |
| Published date | 04 December 2017 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/LHTN-10-2017-0073 |
| Date | 04 December 2017 |
| Author | Katie Elson Anderson |
| Subject Matter | Library & information science,Librarianship/library management,Library technology,Library & information services |
CONTENTS
Column
Getting acquainted with social
networks and apps: social media
in 2017 ......................1
Feature articles
“Appily ever after”: how to create your
own library mobile app through
easy to use, low cost technology. . 7
EssentialPIM: personal information
Manager for everyone .........11
Procedural dungeon generation in
RPG games.................. 13
Professional literature
OBD-II and raspberry Pi technology
to diagnose car’s machine current
condition: study literature ...... 15
Column
Assistive technologies in libraries and
the classroom ................22
Getting acquainted with
social networks and apps:
social media in 2017
Katie Elson Anderson
2017 Update
In the past year, social networks and
apps have increasingly become a major
part of the daily news cycle. One is
hard-pressed to find a day this year that a
social media network is not mentioned by
major news sources. These stories
include exhausting coverage of the tweets
of Donald Trump, how Twitter deals with
online harassment, praise for social apps
that help victims of natural disasters and
speculations of nefarious uses of
Pokemon Go (Nieva and Hautala, 2017).
With almost three billion social media
users worldwide (Williams, 2017), it is
not surprising that the significance of
social networking increases at an
astonishing pace.
Social networks have grown beyond
the means with which to share family
photos, artistic pictures of breakfast and
library updates and events. While those
uses certainly remain a substantial part
of the networks, more users are, for
better or worse, sharing and receiving
news and information via social media
and apps. A recent report by Pew
Internet shows that 67 per cent of
Americans get some news from social
media (Bialik and Matsa, 2017). This
statistic is especially important in light
of the multitude of news stories
discussing the proliferation of fake
news on many social media sites, which
include, but are not limited to the major
players: Facebook, Twitter and
YouTube. Even though 32 per cent of
Americans say they often see made-up
political news online (Bialik and Matsa,
2017), it evident that bad information is
being shared quickly and easily through
social networks and apps, and not
everyone has the skills to determine the
authority and accuracy. It is imperative
that information professionals embrace
the opportunity to understand the power
of these tools so that we can use them to
better inform and instruct our user
communities.
Keeping up with the changes on the
many social networks is a daunting task,
especially given the speed in which they
happen, whether in response to problems
such as fake news or in attempts to
continue to mimic a competitor’s success.
The updates and changes to the most
popular networks can often also
overshadow the emergence of new
networks, which may never overtake the
larger ones, but continue to be relevant
and have value for their communities of
users. While most updates will appear on
technical and social media focused news
sites (Wired, TechCrunch, Mashable)
shortly after they are announced, in many
cases, the companies themselves have a
dedicated platform for announcing these,
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