Social Media

Interactive technologies that facilitate the creation and sharing of information, ideas, and other forms of expression via virtual communities and networks.

Core metadata

ID: social_media
Era: Modern
First known date: 1994 (decade)
Region: Global / multiple regions
Review status: structurally_validated
Maturity: N/A

Prerequisites

Dependents

Social Media Content Moderation (social_media_content_moderation)

Fields

None.

Node sources

Social media (Wikipedia, 2026, generic_overview) • Supports: node

Prerequisite edge evidence

Edge/source evidence summary:

Prerequisite edges: 4
Average edge confidence: 68%
Prerequisite sources: 3
expert_inference: 4

Prerequisite	Type	Confidence	Evidence level	Note	Sources
World Wide Web (world_wide_web)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	World Wide Web provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	The World Wide Web Project (CERN, 1991, official_agency) • Supports: edge
Smartphones (smartphones)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Smartphones provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	Mobile Computing (Computer History Museum, 2026, museum) • Supports: edge
Databases (Relational DBMS) (databases_relational_dbms)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Databases (Relational DBMS) provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	A relational model of data for large shared data banks (Communications of the ACM, 1970, primary_paper) • Supports: edge
Psychology (psychology)	enabling	68%	expert_inference	Psychology provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path.	No sources recorded.

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