Introducing new social media terminologies

Social media are currently building their own empire and power since they have great influence in a flat world. They play an important role in the communication of human beings i.e. sharing information and connecting people. Social media have become the main sources of getting latest news and platforms to spread ideas and mindsets. It is therefore essential to know and understand social media’s key vocabulary and terminologies. The paper analyses and synthesizes 100 collected words concerning social media.
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Introducing new social media terminologies HỘI NGHỊ TOÀN QUỐC KHOA HỌC TRÁI ĐẤT VÀ TÀI NGUYÊN VỚI PHÁT TRIỂN BỀN VỮNG (ERSD 2022) Introducing new social media terminologies Nguyen Hong Van* Hanoi University of Mining and GeologyABSTRACTSocial media are currently building their own empire and power since they have great influence in a flatworld. They play an important role in the communication of human beings i.e. sharing information andconnecting people. Social media have become the main sources of getting latest news and platforms tospread ideas and mindsets. It is therefore essential to know and understand social media’s key vocabularyand terminologies. The paper analyses and synthesizes 100 collected words concerning social media.Keywords: Social media; terminology; derived meanings; abbreviations1. Introduction The word now becomes flatter and flatter thanks to the development of social media. They have helpedspread ideas and connect people from all over the world regardless of nationalities, races, social oreconomic status. It is not common today to see people reading newspapers to update themselves but muchof our knowledge and news comes from broadcasted programs or e-platforms. Along with that ever-growing, newly invented terminologies and vocabulary concerning social media have appeared in largequantity. Those words may either root from original ones but have new shades of meaning or are freshlyinvented. In order to catch up with those, we need to learn new words for a better and more thoroughunderstanding. Since the majority of the languages used on the internet are English, this paper introduces anumber of new social media terminologies in the English language that we often come across when surfingsocial networks.2. Literature review and methods of the study2.1. Literature review2.1.1. What are social media? Social media are websites and computer programs that allow people to communicate and shareinformation, thoughts and ideas on the internet using a computer or mobile phone. (Cambridge dictionary).Social media need the internet to run, launch and boost their content and get almost instant feedback orreactions from their audience. There are no boundaries in terms of time and locations in reaching thefollowers. Hence, social media have served the purposes of politics, economics, communication,entertainment, education, etc, and gained their prominent status. Nowadays, countries often have their e-government on e-platforms to contact their people, artists have their social networks to connect with theirfans, businesses have websites to approach their customers, etc. The current most common social media platforms are Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, TikTok,Wikipedia, Linkedin, Reddit, Pinterest, etc. Each of them has its strengths, purposes, and ways ofinteracting with its audience.2.1.2. What are social media terminologies? Terminologies are the system of terms belonging or peculiar to a science, art, or specialized subject;nomenclature. It is thereby understood that social media terminologies are a collection of words orvocabulary used in websites and social networks with their meanings and implications. A word of daily usecan have a completely different meaning in the social media context. That is why knowing andunderstanding social media terminologies can be a means of obtaining information.2.1.3. Two types of social media terminologies. There are some criteria to divide social media terminologies according to their functions on each socialnetwork, e.g. meanings (original or derived), time (old or newly invented), or forms of words (normal oracronyms). In this paper, those terminologies are divided into two types: words with derived meanings andacronyms.*Tác giả liên hệEmail: nguyenhongvan@humg.edu.vn 13372.2. The methods of the study The research uses document analysis and synthesis. Around 100 new social media terminologies werecollected and analyzed.3. The results of the study Below are two tables of some representatives of words with derived meanings and acronyms in socialmedia terms. The words with derived meanings may have slightly different meanings compared to theiroriginal ones due to the specific characteristics of the social media. The acronyms have smaller quantityand a bit harder to be recognized or understood since they are only the first letters of a group of words. Table 1. Words with derived meanings Word Meaning in Social media terms A set of rules a social network uses to automatically decide which posts 1 Algorithm (n) ...