"The netted human we may call Homo Irretitus resides in a space made possible by technologies frequently referred to as new media, social media, emerging media, and Web 2.0. Traditional conceptualizations of audiences and producers are shifting, so the very making of our social …
One of the most significant issues in contemporary society is the complex forms and conflicting meanings surveillance takes. This book addresses the need for contextualized social perspectives within the study of mediated surveillance. -- Publisher description.
This text develops a surveillance studies approach to social media by presenting first hand ethnographic research with a variety of personal and professional social media users. Using Facebook as a case-study, it describes growing monitoring practices that involve social media.
Risk, digital media, and parenting in a digital age -- Communication in families: expressive empowerment and respectful connectedness -- How parents are mediating the media in middle class and in less advantaged homes -- Media rich and time poor: the emotion work of parenting in…
Ninety-five percent of American kids have Internet access by age 11; the average number of texts a teenager sends each month is well over 3,000. More families report that technology makes life with children more challenging, not less, as parents today struggle with questions pre…
"This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and coun…
"This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and coun…
