Social media freaks : digital identity in the network society /
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Author / Creator: | Kidd, Dustin, author. |
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Imprint: | Boulder : Westview Press, [2017] ©2017 |
Description: | xi, 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Social media. Identity (Psychology) and mass media. Social participation. Identity (Psychology) and mass media. Social media. Social participation. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11026032 |
ISBN: | 9780813350660 0813350662 9780813350677 |
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index. |
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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