TY - BOOK AU - Fuchs, Christian TI - Social media: a critical introduction SN - 1446257304 U1 - 302.231 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - SAGE N1 - 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 ER -