• CONTENTS Introduction
• 1. Share & Share Alike: The Rise of Social Media2. Brands, Cesspools and Credibility
• 3. Can Brands Be Trusted?4. The Facebook Decade: F8=Fate (Plus interview with executive)5. The Death of Privacy (Plus Sidebar on Timeline)6. YouTube: Thirty Five Hours A Minute
• 7. Twitter: News No Longer Breaks, It Tweets (Plus interview with co-founder)
• 8. Google Loses Its Buzz9. The New Wave of Media Researchers10. Public Displays of Connection: Social Media & Social Capital11. Politics 2.0
• 12. The Daily Me vs. The Daily We
• 13. The Death of Media Brands Conclusion: Friends, Followers & The Future.
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There's a revolution going on, as ever-accelerating developments in digital information technologies change nearly every aspect of how we live, work, play, do business, and engage in politics. Share and share alike--the numbers say it all as billions of people worldwide flock to online media and use social networks to discover and spread news and information. In the process, ever-growing networks of "ordinary people" are using these powerful new tools to trim the influence long held by Big Business, Big Government, and Big Media. No longer just passive recipients, participants in social networks now regularly make and break news while organizing civic and political actions that bypass censors, outpace traditional media, attract massive audiences, and influence the rise and fall of brands, industries, politicians, and even governments. In this insider's look at how social media are transforming our world, Rory O'Connor explains the trends and explores what tech visionaries, media makers, political advisers, and businesspeople are saying about the meteoric rise of the various social networks of friends and followers, and what they bode for our future. "Rory O'Connor is one of the smartest media guys around. He knows who's spinning, who's pandering, and who's putting money in his own pocket at the expense of logic, reason, and the public good."--Michael Wolff, Vanity Fair media critic "This is a timely book about a vital subject: How do we get information and is it reliable? With a 'cold eye, ' author Rory O'Connor shows how traditional journalism cheapened its value by sabotaging its trust, and how the digital revolution wonderfully democratizes information yet often removes the journalistic curator, creating more noise, more ME and less WE news. If you want to understand the future of news, its opportunities and its pitfalls, read this book." -- Ken Auletta, author and New Yorker media writer "If Glenn Beck keeps a J. Edgar Hoover-esque blacklist under his bed pillow, journalist Rory O'Connor is probably on it, appearing before Nancy Pelosi and George Soros. O'Connor turns a skeptical yet pragmatic eye to the likes of Facebook. He examines how such online networks empower citizens to create counternarratives to bullsh*t punditry, political spin, and corporate PR, while warning of the dystopian echo chamber they could realize, where every citizen becomes a bullsh*tting pundit, partisan hack, or corporate flak." --SF Weekly "In his lucid examination of the effects of digital technology, the author asserts that the evolution of web-based platforms and the rise of the Occupy movement has caused a marked decrease in our culture's dependence on 'traditional models of organization' ...O'Connor pulls no punches and effectively tracks the gains and losses of the movement in clear, energetic language. An erudite, constructive analysis."--Kirkus Reviews Rory O'Connor, co-founder of MediaChannel.org, is the author of Shock Jocks: Hate Speech & Talk Radio. He has won two Emmys and a George Orwell Award, among many other honors.
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• Introduction - Jean Burgess, Alice Marwick and Thomas Poell Part One: Histories and Pre-Histories
• 1. Pushing Back: Social Media as an Evolutionary Phenomenon - John Hartley
• 2. Early Social Computing: The Rise and Fall of the BBS Scene (1977 - 1995) - Aaron Delwiche
• 3. Alternative Histories of Social Media in Japan and China - Mark McLelland, Haiqing Yu, and Gerard Goggin
• 4. From Hypertext to Hype and Back Again: Exploring the Roots of Social Media in Early Web Culture - Michael Stevenson Part Two: Approaches and Methods
• 5. Digital Methods for Cross-platform Analysis - Richard Rogers
• 6. A Computational Analysis of Social Media Scholarship - Jeremy Foote, Aaron Shaw and Benjamin Mako Hill
• 7. Digital Discourse: Locating Language in New/Social Media - Crispin Thurlow
• 8. Ontology - Nick Couldry and Jannis Kallinikos
• 9. Analysing Social Media Images - Simon Faulkner, Farida Vis and Francesco D'Orazio
• 10. Ethnography - Jolynna Sinanan and Tom McDonald
• 11. Web History and Social Media - Niels Brugger
• 12. The Incomplete Political Economy of Social Media - Siva Vaidhyanathan Part Three: Platforms, Technologies and Business Models
• 13. The Affordances of Social Media Platforms - Taina Bucher and Anne Helmond
• 14. Governance of and by Platforms - Tarleton Gillespie
• 15. Social Media App Economies - Rowan Wilken
• 16. Labor and Social Media: the Exploitation and Emancipation of (Almost) Everyone Online - Jack Linchuan Qiu
• 17. Silicon Valley and the Social Media Industry - Alice Marwick
• 18. Alternative Social Media: From Critique to Code - Robert W. Gehl Part Four: Cultures and Practices
• 19. Personal Connection and Relational Maintenance in Social Media Use - Kelly Quinn & Zizi Papacharissi
• 20. Television Viewing and Fan Practice in an Era of Multiple Screens - Rhiannon Bury
• 21. Trolling, and Other Problematic Social Media Practices - Gabriele de Seta
• 22. Memes - Kate Miltner
• 23. Self-Representation in Social Media - Jill Walker Rettberg
• 24. Sexual Expression in Social Media - Kath Albury
• 25. Privacy and Surveillance - Daniel Trottier Part Five: Social and Economic Domains
• 26. Social Media Marketing - Michael Serazio and Brooke Erin Duffy
• 27. Social Media and Journalism - Alfred Hermida
• 28. Social Media and the Cultural and Creative Industries - Terry Flew
• 29. Politics 2.0: Social Media Campaigning - Jessica Baldwin-Philippi
• 30. Social Media and New Protest Movements - Thomas Poell & Jose van Dijck
• 31. Lively Data, Social Fitness and Biovalue: the Intersections of Health and Fitness Self-Tracking and Social Media - Deborah Lupton
• 32. Social Media Platforms and Education - Jose van Dijck and Thomas Poell
• 33. Scholarly Communication in Social Media - Katrin Weller and Isabella Peters.
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The world is in the midst of a social media paradigm. Once viewed as trivial and peripheral, social media platforms like Twitter, Facebook and WeChat have become an important part of the information and communication infrastructure of society. They are bound up with business and politics as well as everyday life, work, and personal relationships. This international Handbook addresses the most significant research themes, methodological approaches and debates in the study of social media. It contains substantial chapters written especially for this book by leading scholars from a range of disciplinary perspectives, covering everything from computational social science to sexual self-expression. Part 1: Histories And Pre-Histories Part 2: Approaches And Methods Part 3: Platforms, Technologies And Business Models Part 4: Cultures And Practices Part 5: Social And Economic Domains.
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• Vorwort
• Einleitung : Demokratie, Nachrichtenmedien und Internet
• Ausgangspunkt
• Der mündige Bürger und die Rolle journalistischer Medien
• Aktuelle Trends : Journalismus unter Druck
• Nutzungsdaten
• Nachrichtenjournalismus, alternative und soziale Medien
• Nachrichtenjournalismus
• Bürgerjournalismus und alternative Medien
• Soziale Medien und öffentliche Bürgerkommunikation
• Informieren und Informiertheit online
• Vertrauen in Journalismus und Qualitätswahrnehmung
• Verbreitung, Auswahl und Zugang zu Nachrichten
• Personalisierung, Filterblase und Netzwerk-Effekte
• Politisches Interesse, Einstellungen und Nachrichtenkontakt
• Konsequenzen
• Öffentliche Meinung und Meinungsbildung online
• Individuelle und öffentliche Meinung
• Individuelle Meinungsbildung
• Verzerrte Meinungsklimawahrnehmung
• Gruppendynamische Prozesse und Polarisierung
• Im Fokus : die politisierte Bildungsmitte
• Politisierte Bildungsmitte : wer und warum?
• Information und Meinungsbildung der politisierten Bildungsmitte im Netz
• Schluss
• Zusammenfassung
• Wie geht es weiter und was können wir tun?
• Literatur.

• What is a Critical Introduction to Social Media? I FOUNDATIONS What are Social Media and Big Data? Social Media as Participatory Culture Social Media and Communication Power II APPLICATIONS The Power and Political Economy of Social Media Google: Good or Evil Search Engine? Facebook: Surveillance in the Age of Edward Snowden Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere? Weibo and Chinese Capitalism The Political Economy of Online Sharing Platforms in the Age of Airbnb and Uber WikiLeaks: Can We Make Power Transparent? Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production? III CULTURES Conclusion: Social Media and its Alternatives - Towards a Truly Social Media.
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"Timely new chapters on China and the 'sharing economy' of Uber and Airbnb strengthen an already vital contribution to communication studies. Through the lens of critical theory, Fuchs provides the essential text for students of our new media world." -Vincent Mosco, Queen's University, Ontario With social media changing how we use and understand everything from communication and the news to transport, more than ever it is essential to ask the right kinds of questions about the business and politics of social media. This book equips students with the critical thinking they need to understand the complexities and contradictions and make informed judgements. This Second Edition: * Lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart of our media landscape * Explores the sharing economy of Uber and Airbnb in a brand new chapter * Takes us into the politics and economy of social media in China * Puts forward powerful arguments for how to achieve a social media that serves the purposes of a just and fair world This book is the essential, critical guide for all students of media studies and sociology. Readers will never look at social media the same way again.
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• How to optimize your profile
• How to feed the content monster
• How to perfect your posts
• How to respond to comments
• How to integrate social media and blogging
• How to get more followers
• How to socialize events
• How to run Google+ hangouts on air
• How to rock a Twitter chat
• How to avoid looking clueless
• How to optimize individual platforms
• How to put everything together.

From Guy Kawasaki, the bestselling author of The Art of the Start and Enchantment, The Art of Social Media is a no-nonsense guide to becoming a social media superstar. By now it's clear that whether you're promoting a business, a product, or yourself, social media is near the top of what will determine your success or failure. And there are countless pundits, authors, and consultants eager to advise you. But there's no one quite like Guy Kawasaki, the legendary former chief evangelist for Apple and one of the pioneers of business blogging, tweeting, facebooking, tumbling, and much, much more. Now Guy has teamed up with his Canva colleague Peg Fitzpatrick to offer The Art of Social Media - the one essential guide you need to get the most bang for your time, effort, and money. With more than 100 practical tips, tricks, and insights, Guy and Peg present a ground-up strategy to produce a focused, thorough, and compelling presence on the most popular social-media platforms. They guide you through the steps of building your foundation, amassing your digital assets, going to market, optimizing your profile, attracting more followers, and effectively integrating social media and blogging. For beginners overwhelmed by too many choices, as well as seasoned professionals eager to improve their game, The Art of Social Media is full of tactics that have been proven to work in the real world. Or as Guy puts it, "Great Stuff, No Fluff." Guy Kawasaki, who helped make Macintosh a household name, now runs Garage Technology Ventures, a venture-capital firm. He has held his workshop, "Boot Camp for Start-ups, " around the world. Kawasaki is the author of seven previous books, including Art of the Start, Enchantment and Rules for Revolutionaries.
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Now more than ever, we need to understand social media - the good as well as the bad. We need critical knowledge that helps us to navigate the controversies and contradictions of this complex digital media landscape. Only then can we make informed judgements about what's happening in our media world, and why. Showing the reader how to ask the right kinds of questions about social media, Christian Fuchs takes us on a journey across social media, delving deep into case studies on Google, Facebook, Twitter, WikiLeaks and Wikipedia. The result lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart of our media landscape. This book is the essential, critical guide for all students of media studies and sociology. Readers will never look at social media the same way again.
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• 1. Introduction
• 2. Profiles
• 3. Connections
• 4. Updates
• 5. Media
• 6. Messaging
• 7. Values.
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Are we really being ourselves on social media? Can we benefit from connecting with people we barely know online? Why do some people overshare on social networking sites? The Psychology of Social Media explores how so much of our everyday lives is played out online, and how this can impact our identity, wellbeing and relationships. It looks at how our online profiles, connections, status updates and sharing of photographs can be a way to express ourselves and form connections, but also highlights the pitfalls of social media including privacy issues. From FOMO to fraping, and from subtweeting to selfies, The Psychology of Social Media shows how social media has developed a whole new world of communication, and for better or worse is likely to continue to be an essential part of how we understand our selves.
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• Chapter 1. Introduction.-
• Chapter 2: #Crime: The Theoretical Underpinnings.-
• Chapter 3: #CSIEffect: How Media Impacts the Criminal Legal System.-
• Chapter 4: #CrimingWhileWhite: Media's Construction of the Criminal.-
• Chapter 5: #Notallmen: Media and Crime Victimization.-
• Chapter 6: #FutureCrime: What is Crime in the Age of New Media?.-
• Chapter 7. Conclusion.
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As research continues to accumulate on the connections between media and crime, #Crime explores the impact of social media on the criminal legal system. It examines how media influences our perceptions of crime, the perpetration of crime, and the implementation of punishment, whilst emphasizing the significance of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. It offers an accessible and in-depth examination of media and in each chapter there are case studies and examples from both legacy and new media, including discussions from Twitter that are being used to raise awareness of criminal legal issues. It also includes interviews with international scholars and practitioners from Australia, Belgium, and the United States to voice a range of global perspectives. This book speaks broadly to those interested in criminology, criminal justice, media and culture, sociology, and gender studies.
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• #Crime : the theoretical underpinnings
• #CSI effect : how media impacts the criminal legal system
• #CrimingWhileWhite : media's construction of the criminal
• #Notallmen : media and crime victimization
• #FutureCrime : what is crime in the age of new media?
• Conclusion.

As research continues to accumulate on the connections between media and crime, #Crime explores the impact of social media on the criminal legal system. It examines how media influences our perceptions of crime, the perpetration of crime, and the implementation of punishment, whilst emphasizing the significance of race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality. It offers an accessible and in-depth examination of media and in each chapter there are case studies and examples from both legacy and new media, including discussions from Twitter that are being used to raise awareness of criminal legal issues. It also includes interviews with international scholars and practitioners from Australia, Belgium, and the United States to voice a range of global perspectives. This book speaks broadly to those interested in criminology, criminal justice, media and culture, sociology, and gender studies.
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• All platforms moderate
• The myth of the neutral platform
• Community guidelines, or the sound of no
• Three impactful solutions to the problem of scale
• The human labor of moderation
• Facebook, breastfeeding, and living in suspension
• To remove or to filter
• What platforms are, and what they should be.

A revealing and gripping investigation into how social media platforms police what we post online-and the large societal impact of these decisions Most users want their Twitter feed, Facebook page, and YouTube comments to be free of harassment and porn. Whether faced with "fake news" or livestreamed violence, "content moderators"-who censor or promote user-posted content-have never been more important. This is especially true when the tools that social media platforms use to curb trolling, ban hate speech, and censor pornography can also silence the speech you need to hear. In this revealing and nuanced exploration, award-winning sociologist and cultural observer Tarleton Gillespie provides an overview of current social media practices and explains the underlying rationales for how, when, and why these policies are enforced. In doing so, Gillespie highlights that content moderation receives too little public scrutiny even as it is shapes social norms and creates consequences for public discourse, cultural production, and the fabric of society. Based on interviews with content moderators, creators, and consumers, this accessible, timely book is a must-read for anyone who's ever clicked "like" or "retweet.".
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This dictionary covers the whole realm of social media, providing accessible, authoritative, and concise entries centred primarily on websites and applications that enable users to create and share content, or to participate in social networking.

• Introduction.- Part One.Theory and Practice.- 1.Social Media, Public Sphere and Democracy.- 2.The Political Economy of Social Media.- 3.Western Media Policy Frameworks and Values.- Part Two.Western Liberal Democratic Traditions, Grassroots Politics and the Social Media.- 4.Modern Political Communication and Web 2.0 in Representative Democracies: the United States and the British Experience.- 5.The Public Sphere and Network Democracy: the Arab Spring, WikiLeaks and the Edward Snowden Revelations.- 6.Public Diplomacy 2.0 and the Social Media.- Part Three.The rise of the BRICS and on-line interest.- 7.Russia and China: Autocratic and On-line.- 8.India and South Africa-- Post-colonial Power, Democratization and theOnline Community.- 9.Japan, South Korea, Brazil: Post-industrial Societies-- Hard and Software.- 10.The Social Media and the Middle East.- 11.Conclusion.
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Social media is said to radically change the way in which public communication takes place: information diffuses faster and can reach a large number of people, but what makes the process so novel is that online networks can empower people to compete with traditional broadcasters or public figures. This book critically interrogates the contemporary relevance of social networks as a set of economic, cultural and political enterprises and as a public sphere in which a variety of political and socio-cultural demands can be met. It examines policy, regulatory and socio-cultural issues arising from the transformation of communication to a multi-layered sphere of online and social networks. The central theme of the book is to address the following questions: Are online and social networks an unstoppable democratizing and mobilizing force? Is there a need for policy and intervention to ensure the development of comprehensive and inclusive social networking frameworks? Social media are viewed both as a tool that allows citizens to influence policymaking, and as an object of new policies and regulations, such as data retention, privacy and copyright laws, around which citizens are mobilizing.
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As part of the advocacy of the Asian Congress for Media and Communication (ACMC) to promote regional studies in global academic discourse, this book contributes to a better understanding of social media within the context of Southeast Asian countries, with the addition of Sri Lanka. The contributors here are primarily Asian academics and practitioners, immersed in the fields of media and communication. Throughout the chapters, the reader will discover that social media has changed the paradigm of communication in the region: as an avenue for free expression; as a tool for news gathering and news distribution; as an aid in crime prevention; and even as a means to find a lifelong partner. For non-Asian readers, there is also an annex that provides a summary of social media statistics in the region to allow the countries mentioned in this book to be situated within the global context.
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Following the Arab Spring, the use of social media has become instrumental in organising activist movements and spreading political dissent in the Middle East. New online behaviours have transformed traditional communication channels, enabling young people of all backgrounds to feel politically empowered. But now that spring has turned to winter, what are the long-term implications of internet activism in the region? Social Media in the Arab World provides a unique insight into the role of online communications as a force for change in the Gulf States. Featuring examples as diverse as neo-patrimonial politics in Saudi Arabia and the ways an online presence affects the status of women in Kuwait, the chapters examine shifts in the political, social and religious identities of citizens as a result of increased digital activism. With contributions from a variety of inter-disciplinary experts, this wide-ranging study examines the consequences of changing power dynamics brought about by popular social media. In doing so, this book offers an original perspective on the long-term implications of internet usage in the Arab world and is essential reading for students and researchers working across the region.
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• 1. Social Media and Mental and Physical Health
• 2. Narcissism as a Predictor of Self-Presentation
• 3. Cyberstalking and Bullying
• 4. Negative Social Comparisons on Social Network Sites
• 5. Social Media and Relationship Drama
• 6. Social Media Monitoring: A Cautionary View
• 7. Online Firestorms: Collaborative Brand Attacks
• 8. Social Media Privacy
• 9. Social Media Lies and Rumors.
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The Dark Side of Social Media: Psychological, Managerial, and Societal Perspectives examines how social media can negatively affect our lives. The book tackles issues related to social media such as emotional and mental health, shortened attention spans, selective self-presentation and narcissism, the declining quality of interpersonal relationships, privacy and security, cyberstalking, cyberbullying, misinformation and online deception, and negative peer effects. It goes on to discuss social media and companies (loss of power, challenging control mechanisms) and societies as a whole (fake news, chatbots, changes in the workplace). The Dark Side of Social Media: Psychological, Managerial, and Societal Perspectives empowers readers to have a more holistic understanding of the consequences of utilizing social media. It does not necessarily argue that social media is a bad development, but rather serves to complement the numerous empirical findings on the "bright side" of social media with a cautionary view on the negative developments.
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