Social media freaks : digital identity in the network society /

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Author / Creator:Kidd, Dustin, author.
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
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ISBN:9780813350660
0813350662
9780813350677
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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