Social Media Freaks
Subtitle: Digital Identity in the Network Society
Publisher: Routledge; Westview Press
Published: Mar 09, 2017
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780813350660
Description: "Social media has been transforming American and global cultural life for over a decade. It has flattened the divide between producer and audience found in other forms of culture while also enriching some massive corporations. At the core of Social Media Freaks is the question: Does social media reproduce inequalities or is it a tool for subverting them? Social Media Freaks presents a virtual ethnography of social media, focusing on issues of identity and inequality along five dimensions--race, class, gender, sexuality, and disability. It presents original and secondary findings, while also utilizing social theory to explain the dynamics of social media. It teaches readers how to engage social media as a tool for social activism while also examining the limits of social media's value in the quest for social change"--
Notes: Source title: Social Media Freaks: Digital Identity in the Network Society