Social Media
A Critical Introduction
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Christian Fuchs - University of Westminster
Christian Fuchs - University of Westminster
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Social media are an integral part of contemporary society; transforming the way we communicate, use information and understand the world, so we must explore critical questions about social media and dig deeper into issues of ownership, power, class and (in)justice. This book does just that, equipping students with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media’s relationship with society.
The revised and expanded Third Edition:
The revised and expanded Third Edition:
- Explores populism, racism and nationalism in a new chapter on right-wing authoritarianism.
- Introduces the phenomenon of social media influencers and in the age of Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat.
- Explains how big data is central to social media in a new chapter on big data capitalism and imperialism.
- Explores the growing prominence of platforms and platform capitalism.
- Challenges you to envision and achieve a truly social media that serves the purposes of a just and fair world.
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FOUNDATIONS
1. What Is a Critical Introduction to Social Media?
2. What Are Social Media?
3. Big Data Capitalism
APPLICATIONS
4. The Power and Political Economy of Social Media
5. Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?
6. Facebook and WhatsApp: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News
7. Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat
8. Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere?
9. Right-Wing Authoritarianism on Social Media
10. Weibo: Power, Ideology, and Social Struggles in China
11. The Sharing Economy of Airbnb, Uber, and Upwork
12. Platform Capitalism
13. Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production?
FUTURES
14. Capitalist Social Media’s Major Problems and Alternatives
15. A Manifesto for Truly Social Media