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"The study and discussion of media is replete with talk of fans, loves, and favorites, but what of dislikes, distastes, and alienation? Dislike-Minded draws from over 200 interviews to probe what the media's failures and sore spots tell us about media culture, taste, identity, r…
"Focusing on the core principles of how social media craft reciprocal, one-to-one connections with brands, this book outlines a four-step process for developing a successful social media campaign. This new edition continues to give students a foundation in the principles of digi…
Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, and photo sharing and social networking sites, have made possible a more participatory Internet experience. Much of this technology is available for mobile phones, where it can be integrated with such device-specific features as sensors and…
"It is apparent that file sharing on the Internet has become an emerging norm of media consumption especially among young people. This book provides a critical perspective on this phenomenon, exploring issues related to file sharing, downloading, peer-to-peer networks, "piracy,"…
"It is apparent that file sharing on the Internet has become an emerging norm of media consumption especially among young people. This book provides a critical perspective on this phenomenon, exploring issues related to file sharing, downloading, peer-to-peer networks, "piracy,"…
The revolutions sweeping the Middle East provide dramatic evidence of the role that technology plays in mobilizing citizen protest and upending seemingly invulnerable authoritarian regimes. A grainy cell phone video of a Tunisian street vendor's self-immolation helped spark the …
In the context of moral panics surrounding social media, the internet and video games and concerns over how digital media is affecting the young and their ability to learn and communicate effectively, this book puts forward arguments for how digital media is transforming languag…
Examines the increased utilization of social media in daily life and its impact on social movements. The contributors analyze "social media revolutions" such as the Arab Spring, the 15-M movement in Spain, the Occupy Nigeria movement, and the Occupy Gezi movement in Turkey. The …
Compromised Data: From Social Media to Big Data explores how we perform critical research within a compromised social data framework. The expert, international lineup of contributors explores the limits and challenges of social data research in order to invent and develop new mo…
Social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter are enormously popular: they are continuously ranked among the most frequently accessed websites worldwide. However there are as yet few studies which combine critical theoretical and empirical research in the context…
