Social Media - Meikle Graham
Social Media - Meikle Graham Social media platforms have captured the attention and imagination of many millions of people, enabling their users to develop and display their creativity, to empathize…
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Social Media - Meikle Graham
Social media platforms have captured the attention and imagination of many millions of people, enabling their users to develop and display their creativity, to empathize with others, and to find connection, communication and communion. In this accessible book, Graham Meikle explores the tensions between these two aspects of social media.From Facebook and Twitter to Reddit and YouTube, Meikle examines social media as industries and as central sites for understanding the cultural politics of everyday life. But they are also surveillance systems through which those users become complicit in their own commercial exploitation.
Throughout, Social Media engages with Building on the new forms of communication and citizenship brought about by these platforms, he analyzes the meanings of sharing and privacy, internet memes, remix cultures and citizen journalism.