Social Media Freaks: Digital Identity in the Network Society Contributor(s): Kidd, Dustin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813350662 ISBN-13: 9780813350660 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $44.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Computers | Web - Social Media - Social Science | Social Classes & Economic Disparity |
Dewey: 302.231 |
LCCN: 2016044830 |
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 8.9" (0.85 lbs) 288 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Internet |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |