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Social software: History & Politics

Social software, also known as social apps or social platform includes communications and interactive tools that are often based on the Internet. Communication tools typically handle capturing, storing and presenting communication, usually written but increasingly including audio and video as well. Interactive tools handle mediated interactions between a…

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Social software topic overview

The analysis highlights History and Politics as prominent areas in the source structure around Social software. 1 topic appears in more than one source area, which can help identify connections that are less obvious in a linear reading.

Related topics
148
Source areas
10
Connected nodes
159
Extracted relationships
104
Concept neighborhoods
43
Bridge connections
159

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

History · 43 topics
Types · 40 topics
Politics and journalism · 23 topics
Debates or design choices · 20 topics
Overview · 9 topics
Theory · 6 topics
Emerging technologies · 5 topics
Comparison of communication and interactive tools · 1 topics
Criticism · 1 topics
Vendor lists · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Types

Vendor lists

Politics and journalism

Comparison of communication and interactive tools

Emerging technologies

Debates or design choices

Theory

History

Criticism

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Social software connects Entity context

The extracted context around Social software shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Social software → An Introduction, Contemporary Sociology, IBM Center, January, Joseph, JSTOR, Manuel, May, Network Society, Reagle Jr, Revised, September, Simplified Definition, Social Protocols, Sociology, Tom Coates, Toward Another extracted example is Social software → Allen's, Although, Bush's, Capabilities, Christopher Allen, Collaborative Work, Computer Supported Cooperative, CSCW, Englebart's, Groupware, In, Memex, Social Constructivism, The, This, Web. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Social software

Top relations

related to External links · 17
Social software → An Introduction, Contemporary Sociology, IBM Center, January, Joseph, JSTOR, Manuel, May, Network Society, Reagle Jr, Revised, September, Simplified Definition, Social Protocols, Sociology, Tom Coates, Toward
related to history · 16
Social software → Allen's, Although, Bush's, Capabilities, Christopher Allen, Collaborative Work, Computer Supported Cooperative, CSCW, Englebart's, Groupware, In, Memex, Social Constructivism, The, This, Web
related to Debates or design choices · 10
Social software → Broadly, However, In, Membership, Most, Others, Social, Some, The, Usenet
related to Blogs · 9
Social software → Beyond, Blogging, Blogs, Pingback, The, They, Topics, While, XFN
related to Virtual presence · 9
Social software → In, More, People, Research, The, URLs, Virtual, Widely, World Wide Web
related to Politics and journalism · 8
Social software → GitHub, Google Moderator, IdeaScale, It, Legislation, Open, Semantic MediaWiki, Use
related to Collaborative software · 7
Social software → Clay Shirky, Enterprise Architecture, Landing, Moodle, SharePoint, Since, The
related to Theory · 7
Social software → Constructivist, Conversational, Jarvenpaa, Leidner, Many, They, Vygotsky
related to Vendor lists · 5
Social software → Forrester Research, Independent, Jeremiah Owyang, Real Story Group, Various
has application · 2
Social software → Social Project Management, There

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

social software users online people tools web network also content networks information allow use internet communities virtual communication many services

Social software relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 104 structured relationships around Social software. Examples in this analysis include mailing lists → instance of → there are many older media and blogs → instance of → most users of this term restrict its meaning to more recent software genres. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
mailing listsinstance ofthere are many older media0.80text
Usenet fora that qualify asinstance ofthere are many older media0.80text
blogsinstance ofmost users of this term restrict its meaning to more recent software genres0.80text
wikisinstance ofmost users of this term restrict its meaning to more recent software genres0.80text
Vygotskyinstance ofTheoryConstructivist learning theorists0.80text
Leidnerinstance ofTheoryConstructivist learning theorists0.80text
Jarvenpaa have theorized that the process of expressing knowledge aids its creationinstance ofTheoryConstructivist learning theorists0.80text
that conversations benefit the refinement of knowledgeinstance ofTheoryConstructivist learning theorists0.80text
commentsinstance ofwith attributes0.80text
thinking types which reflect the role of the note in the author's thinkinginstance ofwith attributes0.80text
Social softwarehas applicationThere0.60section
Social softwarehas applicationSocial Project Management0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Social software bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Software, Network and Networks. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Social software
    • Software
    • Network
    • Networks
    • Online
    • Media
    • Search
    • People
    • Users
    • Also
    • Tools
    • Community
    • Web
  • social software
    • Software
    • Network
    • Networks
    • Online
    • Media
    • Tools
    • Communities
    • Web
    • Search
    • People
    • Collaborative
    • Users
  • internet
    • Virtual
    • Applications
    • Chat
    • Allows
    • Real
    • Communication
    • Others
    • Search
    • Media
    • Online
    • Many
    • Allow
  • applications
    • Collaborative
    • Communities
    • Communication
    • Internet
    • Virtual
    • Online
    • Social
    • Software
    • Wiki
    • Chat
    • Blogs
    • Real
  • massively multiplayer online games
    • People
    • Blogs
    • Web
    • Social
    • Chat
    • Network
    • Allow
    • Search
    • Software
    • System
    • Services
    • Networks
  • internet relay chat
    • One
    • Online
    • Virtual
    • Real
    • Others
    • Applications
    • Chat
    • Internet
    • Allows
    • Communication
    • Search
    • Users
  • chat
    • One
    • Online
    • Real
    • Others
    • Internet
    • Users
    • Tools
    • Collaborative
    • Blogs
    • New
    • May
    • Communication
  • xhtml friends network
    • Networks
    • Search
    • Information
    • Social
    • Services
    • Online
    • People
    • Allow
    • Web
    • Software
    • Community
    • User

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Social software, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Social software with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Social softwareHistory · splits 116 ⟂ 44
Social softwareTypes · splits 119 ⟂ 41
Social softwarePolitics and journalism · splits 136 ⟂ 24
Social softwareDebates or design choices · splits 139 ⟂ 21
Social softwareOverview · splits 150 ⟂ 10
Social softwareTheory · splits 153 ⟂ 7
Social softwareEmerging technologies · splits 154 ⟂ 6

Map overview Semantic statistics

Social software

Nodes160
Edges159
Triples104
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.0125
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Social software to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History & Politics, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Social software · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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