Fuchs, Christian

Social media: a critical introduction/ - London: SAGE, 2014. - vii, 293 p.

What is a critical introduction to social media? --
What is social media? --
Social media as participatory culture --
Social media and communication power --
The power and political economy of social media --
Google : good or evil search engine? --
Facebook : a surveillance threat to privacy? --
Twitter : a new public sphere? --
WikiLeaks : can we make power transparent? --
Wikipedia : a new democratic form of collaborative work and production? --
Conclusion: Social media and its alternatives : towards a truly social media.

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