The Culture of Connectivity: A Critical History of Social Media

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Oxford University Press, 2 ene 2013 - 240 páginas
Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author José van Dijck offers an analytical prism that can be used to view techno-cultural as well as socio-economic aspects of this transformation as well as to examine shared ideological principles between major social media platforms. This fascinating study will appeal to all readers interested in social media.

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1 Engineering Sociality in a Culture of Connectivity
3
2 Disassembling Platforms Reassembling Sociality
24
3 Facebook and the Imperative of Sharing
45
4 Twitter and the Paradox of Following and Trending
68
5 Flickr between Communities and Commerce
89
The Intimate Connection between Television and Video Sharing
110
7 Wikipedia and the Neutrality Principle
132
Lock In Fence Off Opt Out?
154
Notes
177
Bibliography
207
Index
221
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José van Dijck is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where she also served as Dean of Humanities.

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