Družbeni mediji

Social media, sociality, and survey research

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"The survey research discipline faces unprecedented challenges, such as falling response rates, inadequate sampling frames, and antiquated approaches and tools. Addressing this changing landscape, Social Media, Sociality, and Survey Research introduces readers to a multitude of …

Journalism and PR: news media and public relations in the digital age

by Lloyd, John, Toogood, Laura

fromRISJ challenges

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Public relations and journalism have had a difficult relationship for over a century, characterised by mutual dependence and - often - mutual distrust. The two professions have vied with each other for primacy: journalists could open or close the gates, but PR had the stories, t…

The qualified self: social media and the accounting of everyday life

by Humphreys, Lee

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Social critiques argue that social media have made us narcissistic, that Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube are all vehicles for me-promotion. In The Qualified Self, Lee Humphreys offers a different view. She shows that sharing the mundane details of our lives-what we ate…

Post-truth

by McIntyre, Lee C.

fromThe MIT Press essential knowledge series

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"Are we living in a post-truth world, where "alternative facts" replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence? How did we get here? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon fro…

Communicating fashion: clothing, culture, and media

by Lascity, Myles Ethan

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Entertainingly written with examples from popular culture, Communicating Fashion draws together theories from communication, media and fashion studies to explain how we all use clothing to express ourselves and how the media shapes our understanding of fashion and style.

Critique, social media and the information society

fromRoutledge studies in science, technology, and society

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In times of global capitalist crisis we are witnessing a return of critique in the form of a surging interest in critical theories (such as the critical political economy of Karl Marx) and social rebellions as a reaction to the commodification and instrumentalization of everythi…

We are data: algorithms and the making of our digital selves

by Cheney-Lippold, John

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"We are Data explores what identity means in an algorithmic age: how it works, how our lives are controlled by it, and how we can resist it. Algorithms are everywhere, organizing the near limitless data that exists in our world. Derived from our every search, like, click, and pu…

The death of Web 2.0: ethics, connectivity and recognition in the twent…

by Singh, Greg

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Communication in today's world is characterised by a condition of persistent, semi-permanent connectivity, which seems to bring us closer together but which can also be profoundly alienating. The Death of Web 2.0 takes a retrospective look at a moment in recent media history tha…