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The culture of connectivity : a critical history of social media

José van Dijck (Author)
"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
Print Book, English, 2013
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013
History
ix, 228 pages ; 24 cm
9780199970773, 9780199970780, 0199970777, 0199970785
803472498
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?