Tales from Facebook

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Facebook is used by nearly 500 million people throughout the world. Once the preserve of youth, the largest increase in usage today is amongst the older sections of the population. This book examines how Facebook transforms the lives of particular individuals, but it also presents a general theory of Facebook as culture and considers the likely consequences of social networking in the future.

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Full title :Tales from Facebook / Daniel Miller.

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Publication Date:2011.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Polity Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, UK
Language:eng
Publication Date:2011.

The Physical Object

Description:xx, 218 pages ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0745652107, 9780745652108, 9780745652092, 0745652093
oclc:ocn667822912
LC Classification:HM743.F33
Dewey Decimal:302.30285

pt. 1. Twelve portraits -- 1. Marriage Dun Mash Up -- 2. Community -- 3. For Whom the Bell Doesn't Toll -- 4. The Book of Truth -- 5. Cultivating FarmVille -- 6. Avatar -- 7. Time Suck -- 8. Getting the Word Out -- 9. It Was Just Sex -- 10. It's Who You Know -- 11. Picking BlackBerrys -- 12. The History Woman -- Lagniappe -- 13. The Philosophy of Doubles -- pt. 2. The Anthropology of Facebook -- A. The Invention of Fasbook -- B. Fifteen Theses on What Facebook Might Be -- C. The Fame of Facebook.

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Atarazanas Facebook Facebook (Electronic resource) Facebook (Web site) Information technology -- Social aspects Media studies Online social networks Réseaux sociaux (Internet) Social networking Sociala nätverk online -- sociala aspek… Technologie de l'information -- Aspect …