The culture of connectivity : a critical history of social media /
Dijck, José vanAuthor
This book studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century, up until 2012. It provides both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of networking services in the context of a changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand how the intricate constellation of platforms profoundly affects our experience of online sociality.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
This book studies the rise of social media in the first decade of the twenty-first century, up until 2012. It provides both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of networking services in the context of a changing ecosystem of connective media. Such history is needed to understand how the intricate constellation of platforms profoundly affects our experience of online sociality.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on Dec. 20, 2012).
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Social media
Online social networks
Sociology & Social History
Social Sciences
Social Change
Mitjans socials
Comunitats virtuals
Xarxes socials
Història