Social media is a 21st century term used to broadly define a variety
of networked tools or technologies that emphasize the social aspects
of the Internet as a channel for communication, collaboration, and
creative expression, and is often interchangeable with the termsWeb
2.0 and social software (Dabbagh & Reo, 2011a). Examples of social
media include experience- and resource-sharing tools such as
Delicious, WordPress, and Twitter that enable online/social bookmarking,
blogging, and microblogging; wiki software such as PBworks
that enables the creation of collaborative workspaces; media sharing
tools such as Flickr and YouTube that enable social tagging; social
networking sites (SNS) such as Facebook and LinkedIn that enable
social networking; and web-based (cloud-computing) office tools
such as Google Apps that enable document and calendar sharing and
editing among other things (Dabbagh & Reo, 2011b; Kitsantas &
Dabbagh, 2010).