Title: Social Media Freaks
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"--
Subjects: Social media, Identity (Psychology) and mass media, Social participation, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Media Studies, Popular Culture, Social Classes, 05.38 content aspects of electronic communication, Identität, Soziale Ungleichheit, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes