Social Media Freaks: Digital Identity in the Network Society

di Dustin Kidd (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Inc, 2017

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.

• Autore: Dustin Kidd
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Inc
• Anno: 2017
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 288 p.
• Dimensioni: 229 x 152 mm
• Peso: 468 gr.
• EAN: 9780813350660

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