How Silicon Valley Utilizes Social Media

Within the reading from Alice Marwick titled "Silicon Valley and The Social Media Industry" I found it very interesting how she made the comparison that Silicon Valley does NOT produce social media yet utilizes some practice implemented in social media. 

    It is explained in the reading that Silicon Valley adopts the properties of social media through the means of user generated content, peer production market places collaboratively generated information, and datafication. 

    What I find interesting is why such practice are being utilized in tech start-ups in Silicon Valley and how come they are producing positive results yet they are still not producing or creating social media. 


If anyone has any insight on why such practice are super useful or why they are achieving success please feel free to add a comment. 

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