The Italian Case: Breaking the Pyramid Down
from Pxhere ( https://bit.ly/2LX9H0r ) In my previous piece, ( Adoption Communities and the Social Media Pyramid ), I was telling you about Virtual Adoption Communities and their formation, constitution and position, in the social media pyramid established by Prof. Randy Hlavac [1]. I n the following paragraphs, we are going to look at t he whole IAC - Italian Adoption Community - the " Italian Case" - based on my personal experience. As in Hlavac's, the IAC's social media pyramid has 6 levels that can be analysed through function, population and focus . Among the IAC , Facebook is the most popular medium; but it's not the only one. In my interpretation, here is the breakdown by level: the first level belongs to " Social Networks" / Facebook, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Quora and (rarely) Twitter the second level consists of " News Aggregators" / National Newspap...