At the current time, a new civil digital culture has taken hold, in which so-called ‘social’ and/or ‘conversational’ technologies or social software are providing unprecedented opportunities for everyday user activities. The term Web 2.0 has entered the vocabulary to reflect the ongoing transition of the World Wide Web from a collection of websites to a full-fledged computing platform serving social web applications such as email, discussion forums, chatrooms, Weblogs and Wikis to end users.
At present, a new digital culture has emerged, marked by the widespread adoption of 'social' and/or 'conversational' technologies or social software that enable unprecedented levels of user engagement. The term Web 2.0 has become a widely accepted term to describe the evolution of the World Wide Web from a static collection of websites to a dynamic platform supporting a range of social web applications.