TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fuchs,Christian
TI  - Social media: a critical introduction 
SN  - 9781473966833 (pbk. : alk. paper)
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Thousand Oaks, CA
PB  - SAGE Publications
KW  - Social media
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; What is a Critical Introduction to Social Media?
 
I FOUNDATIONS
 
What are Social Media and Big Data?
 
Social Media as Participatory Culture
 
Social Media and Communication Power
 
II APPLICATIONS
 
The Power and Political Economy of Social Media
 
Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?
 
Facebook: Surveillance in the Age of Edward Snowden
 
Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere?
 
Weibo and Chinese Capitalism
 
The Political Economy of Online Sharing Platforms in the Age of Airbnb and Uber
 
WikiLeaks: Can We Make Power Transparent?
 
Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production?
 
III CULTURES
 
Conclusion: Social Media and its Alternatives ? Towards a Truly Social Media
N2  - "Now more than ever, we need to understand social media - the good as well as the bad. We need critical knowledge that helps us to navigate the controversies and contradictions of this complex digital media landscape. Only then can we make informed judgments about what's happening in our media world, and why. Showing the reader how to ask the right kinds of questions about social media, Christian Fuchs takes us on a journey across social media, delving deep into case studies on Google, Facebook, Twitter, WikiLeaks and Wikipedia. The result lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart of our media landscape."--Publisher's description
ER  -