02211nam a2200241   4500001000500000005001700005008003900022010001700061020004200078020003800120100002200158245006400180250001700244260003300261336002600294337002800320338002700348505075900375520064401134650002801778999001501806952014801821775520181127184306.0160803s2017    cau           000 0 eng  a  2016949804  a9781473966826 (hardback : alk. paper)  a9781473966833 (pbk. : alk. paper)1 aFuchs, Christian.10aSocial media :ba critical introduction /cChristian Fuchs.  a2nd edition.  aLos Angeles :b Sage,c2017.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia  avolumebnc2rdacarrier  a1. What is a Critical Introduction to Social Media? -- I. FOUNDATIONS: 2. What Are Social Media and Big Data? -- 3. Social Media as Participatory Culture -- 4. Social Media and Communication Power. -- II. APPLICATIONS: 5. The Power and Political Economy of  Social Media -- 6. Google: Good or Evil Search Engine? -- 7. Facebook: Surveillance in the Age of Edward Snowden -- 8. Twitter and Democracy: A New Public Sphere? -- 9. Weibo: Power, Ideology, and Social Struggles in  Chinese Capitalism -- 10. Airbnb and Uber: The Political Economy of Online  Sharing Platforms -- 11. Wikipedia: A New Democratic Form of Collaborative  Work and Production? -- III. FUTURES: 12. Conclusion: Social Media and its  Alternatives - Towards a Truly Social Media.grt  a"Now more than ever, we need to understand social media -  the good as well as the bad. We need critical knowledge  that helps us to navigate the controversies and  contradictions of this complex digital media landscape.  Only then can we make informed judgments about what's  happening in our media world, and why. Showing the reader  how to ask the right kinds of questions about social  media, Christian Fuchs takes us on a journey across  social media, delving deep into case studies on Google,  Facebook, Twitter, WikiLeaks and Wikipedia. The result  lays bare the structures and power relations at the heart  of our media landscape."  aSocial media.vxyz2  c6654d6654  00102ddc40708MAINaRTCLIBbRTCLIBcMAINd2022-01-12h i10939l5m3o302.2 FUCp30012853r2025-09-22 00:00:00s2025-08-27w2018-11-27yMAIN