Social media freaks : digital identity in the network society /
"Social media has been transforming American and global cultural life for over a decade. It has flattened the divide between producer and audience found in other forms of culture while also enriching some massive corporations. At the core of Social Media Freaks is the question: Does social medi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Boulder :
Westview Press,
[2017]
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| Summary: | "Social media has been transforming American and global cultural life for over a decade. It has flattened the divide between producer and audience found in other forms of culture while also enriching some massive corporations. At the core of Social Media Freaks is the question: Does social media reproduce inequalities or is it a tool for subverting them? Social Media Freaks presents a virtual ethnography of social media, focusing on issues of identity and inequality along five dimensions--race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. It presents original and secondary findings, while also utilizing social theory to explain the dynamics of social media. It teaches readers how to engage social media as a tool for social activism while also examining the limits of social media's value in the quest for social change"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 272 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255). |
| ISBN: | 9780813350660 (paperback) 0813350662 (paperback) |