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The culture of connectivity : a critical history of social media /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dijck, José van
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.
Subjects:
Social media > History.
Online social networks > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Engineering sociality in a culture of connectivity
  • Disassembling platforms, reassembling sociality
  • Facebook and the imperative of sharing
  • Twitter and the paradox of following and trending
  • Flickr between communities and commerce
  • YouTube: the intimate connection between television and video sharing
  • Wikipedia and the neutrality principle
  • The ecosystem of connective media: lock in, fence off, opt out?