Social News

Social News ( German: Social messages) are an application on the World Wide Web, users set in the notes to messages or content on another website, provided with a brief commentary. Other users can vote for or against the posts. The most popular posts are on the home page. The user decide which messages spread and be prominently positioned. For this reason, one speaks of a news community.

Functions

Contributions must be read by all visitors, for setting new posts have to register mostly. The same applies for commenting on contributions. Registration is necessary in some applications, also for tuning. Registered users can, among other things in their profile specify who their " friends " to be informed by e -mail, for example if they set a new post. The total score of a contribution is calculated often by an undisclosed algorithm that not only the number of votes one may for and against the article, but may also take into account who voted. One of the reasons for this approach is the desire to prevent tampering as far as possible. The articles often include namely open or hidden advertising for a website. The submitter try this then to heave to the home page, or simply a rich as a means of search engine optimization. The user will receive for their activity also points that, often referred to in the user's status as karma, reflected. Points can be awarded for submitting papers, commenting and voting and are summarized by an algorithm, which is also kept secret might. The algorithm can, for example, the relevance of the activity or the success of the submitted papers, in the sense of votes received into account. User- perceived as unjust algorithms have a negative impact on the activity may have.

The contributions can be assigned to given categories or be filed within users configured groups. Most applications accept not only text, but also images and videos. Some websites also include podcasts or allow the setting of original contributions without reference to a web site. Contributions may be provided with keywords (English tags ) that can be used to search for related articles and are presented according to the website usually in the form of a tag cloud ( engl. tag cloud ) their frequency.

Some authors see social news as a form of social bookmarking, but during the last collecting personal bookmarks ( and possibly shared with other users ) is in the foreground, is what social news for distribution and discussion of news. You will be deemed to be the part of citizen journalism on the Internet.

Provider

The most popular application for members and visitors was initially Digg. The website dedicated to the beginning only technical news, but now encompasses contributions to almost all areas of life. In Germany, a first clone of the same name was founded, which later renamed itself in YiGG. However, both services were put in a crisis: YiGG never achieved the necessary critical mass of users during Digg after a conversion of software a rapid loss of users suffered.

More news communities are, for example, in Reddit USA and Yahoo and Short News in Germany.

In this context, particularly the name news aggregator has established. As more services on the German market Virato and Rivva be mentioned. The Süddeutsche Zeitung has with her ​​Facebook Twitter Press review found a way to map trends in the network, filtered by the readers themselves.

Swell

• World Wide Web
• Net culture
• Computer science and society
• Media
• Digital Media