• Waryle@jlai.lu
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    2 days ago

    Where do you even get the “media” part in it?

    I’ll quote myself because I already answered that: « Media is the plural of medium, which means “intermediary” ». That’s the textbook definition of the word media, and the consensus about what it means.

    Whatsapp is the middleman/platform, thus intermediary (= “medium/media”), between two people socializing. I don’t understand what you don’t understand.

    A social network is social media that allows to form groups or communities. Two people communicating is not a network, the whole point of a network is interconnection between members of a group.

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      2 days ago

      No, that is not what media means. That might be what the original word in Latin meant, but in English it is used to refer to things like newpapers, TV channels and so on.

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          2 days ago

          You are funny. That article links directly to what media typically refers to, i.e. “mass media”.

          Asks any typical person around you what they understand if you talk about “the media”, and they will confirm that this indeed refers to what I am talking about.