social media

English

Noun

social media (uncountable)

1. Interactive forms of media that allow users to interact with and publish to each other, generally by means of the Internet.

   The early 21st century saw a huge increase in social media thanks to the widespread availability of the Internet.

   • 2012 April 19, Josh Halliday, “Free speech haven or lawless cesspool – can the internet be civilised?”, in the Guardian‎^[1]:

     "By all means we want people to use social media, but we do not want you to use it in ways that will incite violence," said Jonathan Toy, Southwark council's head of community safety. "This remains a big issue for us and without some form of censorship purely focusing on [violent videos], I'm not sure how we can address it."

   • 2019 October 1, Bianca Vivion Brooks, “I Used to Fear Being a Nobody. Then I Left Social Media.”, in New York Times‎^[2]:

     I grow weary when I think of this as the new normal for what is considered to be a fruitful personal life. Social media is no longer a mere public extension of our private socialization; it has become a replacement for it.

Related terms

• social networking

Translations

interactive forms of media

• Arabic: إعْلام اجْتِماعيّ‎ m (ʼiʻlām ijtimāʻiyy)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社會媒體, 社会媒体 (shèhuì méitǐ), 社交媒體 (zh), 社交媒体 (zh) (shèjiāo méitǐ)

• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: sociale media (nl) pl, social media pl
• Finnish: sosiaalinen media (fi)
• French: média sociaux m pl
• Galician: medios sociais
• Georgian: სოციალური მედია (socialuri media)
• German: soziale Medien pl or n
• Greek: μέσα κοινωνικής δικτύωσης n pl (mésa koinonikís diktýosis)

• Italian: social (it) m pl
• Japanese: ソーシャルメディア (sōsharu media)
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Kurmanji: medyaya sosyal (ku)

• Polish: media społecznościowe
• Portuguese: rede social (pt) f
• Russian: социа́льные ме́диа (ru) f pl (sociálʹnyje média)
• Spanish: medios sociales
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: phương tiện truyền thông xã hội, truyền thông xã hội

Further reading

• social media on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English social media.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˌsoː.ʃəl ˈmiː.di.aː/

Noun

social media pl (plural only)

1. social media

   Synonym: sociale media