Social Media
eBook - ePub

Social Media

A Critical Introduction

  1. 440 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Social Media

A Critical Introduction

About this book

Never look at social media the same way again.

Social media are an integral part of contemporary society. From news and politics to language and everyday life, they have changed the way we communicate, use information and understand the world. So we have to ask critical questions about social media. We have to dig deeper into issues of ownership, power, class and (in)justice. 

This book equips you with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media's relationship with society. The revised and expanded

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Contents
  7. Illustration List
  8. Table List
  9. About the Author
  10. Preface
  11. I Foundations
  12. 1 What is a Critical Introduction to Social Media?
  13. 2 What are Social Media?
  14. 3 Big Data Capitalism
  15. II Applications
  16. 4 The Power and Political Economy of Social Media
  17. 5 Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?
  18. 6 Facebook and WhatsApp: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News
  19. 7 Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat
  20. 8 Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere?
  21. 9 Right-wing Authoritarianism on Social Media
  22. 10 Weibo: Power, Ideology, and Social Struggles in China
  23. 11 The Sharing Economy of Airbnb, Uber, and Upwork
  24. 12 Platform Capitalism
  25. 13 Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production?1
  26. III Futures
  27. 14 Capitalist Social Media’s Major Problems and Alternatives
  28. 15 A Manifesto for Truly Social Media
  29. References
  30. Index