Social Media Freaks

Description:

"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"--

subjects: Social media,  Identity (Psychology) and mass media,  Social participation,  SOCIAL SCIENCE,  Media Studies,  Popular Culture,  Social Classes,  05.38 content aspects of electronic communication,  Identität,  Soziale Ungleichheit,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture,  SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes