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Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea.
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or software that gathers all the news feeds in one place where you can scan/read them quickly. What if all those sources were in one place and you didn't have to search for new information on the page you??????d Tourism Campaigns or celebrate a place or county or state. The content is delivered through ??????news
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