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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.
Social media, art, and the network society -- The social structure of social media -- Leave Britney alone : sexuality perspectives on social media -- Disabling a meme : disability perspectives on social media -- GamerGate : gender perspectives on social media -- Occupy Wall Street : class perspectives on social media -- Black lives matter : racial perspectives on social media -- Social media toolbox -- Conclusion : a social media revolution?
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.