Critical Theory and Social Media
Subtitle: Between Emancipation and Commodification
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9781138808768
Subjects: Critical theory; Social media
Description: Social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are enormously popular: they are continuously ranked among the most frequently accessed websites worldwide. However there are as yet few studies which combine critical theoretical and empirical research in the context of digital and social media. The aim of this book is to study the constraints and emancipatory potentials of new media and to assess to what extent digital and social media can contribute to strengthen the idea of the communication and network commons, and a commons-based information society.