Christian Fuchs 
Social Media [EPUB ebook] 
A Critical Introduction

Never look at social media the same way again.



Social media are an integral part of contemporary society. From news and politics to language and everyday life, they have changed the way we communicate, use information and understand the world. So we have to ask critical questions about social media. We have to dig deeper into issues of ownership, power, class and (in)justice. 



This book equips you with a critical understanding of the complexities and contradictions at the heart of social media’s relationship with society. The revised and expanded

Tabella dei contenuti

FOUNDATIONS

1. What Is a Critical Introduction to Social Media?

2. What Are Social Media?

3. Big Data Capitalism

APPLICATIONS

4. The Power and Political Economy of Social Media

5. Google: Good or Evil Search Engine?

6. Facebook and Whats App: Surveillance in the Age of Fake News

7. Influencer Capitalism: Reified Consciousness in the Age of Instagram, You Tube, and Snapchat

8. Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere?

9. Right-Wing Authoritarianism on Social Media

10. Weibo: Power, Ideology, and Social Struggles in China

11. The Sharing Economy of Airbnb, Uber, and Upwork

12. Platform Capitalism

13. Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative Work and Production?

FUTURES

14. Capitalist Social Media’s Major Problems and Alternatives

15. A Manifesto for Truly Social Media

Circa l’autore

Christian Fuchs is Professor at the University of Westminster, where he is the Director of the Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies and the Director of the Communication and Media Research Institute. His research fields are critical theory, critical media/communication studies, critical digital studies.Fuchs is a critical theorist of communication and digital media. He is the author of many works about the roles of media, communcation, and the Internet in society.His books include ‘Marxist Humanism & Communication Theory’ (2021), ‘Communication and Captalism: A Critical Theory’ (2020), ‘Marxism: Karl Marx′s Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural & Communication Studies'(2020), ‘Nationalism on the Internet’ (2020), ‘Rereading Marx in the Age of Digital Capitalism’ (2019), ‘Digital Demagogue: Authoritarian Capitalism in the Age of Trump and Twitter’ (2018), ‘Critical Theory of Communication’ (2016), ‘Reading Marx in the Information Age’ (2016), ‘Culture and Economy in the Age of Social Media’ (2015), ‘Occupy Media!'(2014), ‘Digital Labour and Karl Marx’ (2014), ‘Foundations of Critical Media and Information Studies’ (2011), ‘Internet and Society’ (2008).@fuchschristian, http://fuchsc.net