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Discussions on different topics can take a variety of forms online, from bulletin boards to blogs to mailing lists. With the move from text content to multimedia content in the Social Web, discussions are now being attached to content items as well (e.g. lists of comments appear for many videos in YouTube or photos in Flickr). More recently, the phenomenon of microblogging has taken root, where people create short text entries about what they are doing that are normally limited to 140 characters, and people can reply within their own activity streams to messages posted by others using a simple reply syntax. However, all of these discussion methods share a common format: someone begins a conversation (either with a text post or a multimedia item), and others weigh in with their views on the topic or item under discussion.
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Breslin, J.G., Passant, A., Decker, S. (2009). Discussions. In: The Social Semantic Web. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01172-6_5
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