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Social media freaks : digital identity in the network society

Kidd, Dustin, author

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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\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Subject: Social media. / Identity (Psychology) and mass media / Social participation. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture. / SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes.
• ISBN: 9780813350660

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HM742.K53 2017	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE