Social media penetrate our lives: Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and many other platforms define daily habits of communication and creative production. This book studies the rise of social media, providing both a historical and a critical analysis of the emergence of major platforms in the context of a rapidly changing ecosystem of connective media. Author Jose van Dijck offers an analytical prism that can be used to view techno-cultural as well as socio-economic aspects of this transformation as well as to examine shared ideological principles between major social media platforms. This fascinating study will appeal to all readers interested in social media.
| ISBN: | 9780199970797 |
| Publication date: | 2nd January 2013 |
| Author: | Dijck, Jose van |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Ebook (PDF) |