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The culture of connectivity : a critical history of social media

"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."--Publisher's website
eBook, English, ©2013
Oxford University Press, Oxford, ©2013
Electronic books
1 online resource (ix, 228 pages)
9780199970797, 9780199307425, 0199970793, 0199307423
839305263
Engineering sociality in a culture of connectivity
Disassembling platforms, reassembling sociality
Facebook and the imperative of sharing
Twitter and the paradox of following and trending
Flickr between communities and commerce
YouTube: the intimate connection between television and video sharing
Wikipedia and the neutrality principle
The ecosystem of connective media: lock in, fence off, opt out?