[Ads-l] social media antedating

[Dave Wilton]

The sense here would appear to be a bit different. The OED defines the term
as, "websites and applications which enable users to create and share
content or to participate in social networking." But here the term seems to
be used in the context of a traditional publisher posting an article and
linking it to chat rooms and the like. It's publisher-driven rather than
user-driven.

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Last night, Jeopardy had  clue that included "Per the OED this 2-word term
for websites and apps that allow users to network dates only back to 2004,"
referring to "social media".
Transcript from Access World News, Tavis Smiley show, NPR, 10/17/2002.
Omar Wasow is speaking:"At the same time, there have been some--even though
generally this new version I think is being well-received, the other kind of
thing that you'll see in their focus is a shift to what they're calling
social media, where rather than just putting up an article, they're really
going to try to put up an article and make sure that it connects you to
conversations about that article so that, for example, it's easier now on
AOL to find another person who wants to chat about a topic you're interested
in chatting about." 
A serious search could no doubt push this back farther.

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