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Social media is the medium through which internet users can contact and share information over the internet.

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deindividuation

Culture; Social media

Deinidviduation is the situation where anti-normative behavior is released in groups in which individuals are not seen or paid attention to as individuals. Simply put, deindividuation is immersion in ...

diffusion

Culture; Social media

The term denotes the spread of cultural attributes from one culture to another. Diffusion has long been an alternative to evolutionary theory as an explanation of the origins of cultural variation.

differentiation

Culture; Social media

Differentiation is the term used to describe a fundamental feature of modernisation: the fragmentation of soical spheres, roles and institutions into ever more specialised parts.

dichotomy

Culture; Social media

Any variable which has only two mutually exclusive conditions is dichotomous. As the number of cases which fall outside the two categories of male and female is trivial, we can regard sex as a ...

diaspora

Culture; Social media

A diaspora is the movement or migration of a group of people, such as those sharing a national and/or ethnic identity, away from an established or ancestral homeland.

dialectical materialism

Culture; Social media

The concept of reality in which material things are in the constant process of change brought about by the tension between conflicting or interacting forces, elements, or ideas.

desacralization

Culture; Social media

The act of depriving something of its sacred character, or the disrespectful or contemptuous treatment of that which is held to be sacred or holy by a group or individual.

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